Visiting Poland this past week with a couple of friends. We attended church with a small branch of our our very same church we have in the USA and over all the world. That was a special experience…singing hymns in like…at least 3 different languages yet unified in spirit (lots of people know English). And go figure, we were visitors alongside a family who only lives about a half-hour from me in Utah!!!!

And then two of us went to the Solidarity Museum in Gdansk, which is to commemorate the movement against the communist regime of the 1960s-80s or so? They unionized and started a movement against communism. They got so far and then suddenly, martial law came to town and kept people in fear using propaganda and “this is for your own good.”

As I went through I tried on different presidents (like Trump vs the radical left). Sure Trump seems to have some authoritarian tendencies. I have my concerns. Yet I’m angry that most of the stuff I saw in the museum, my family would attribute to Trump, whereas I would attribute a lot of it to the radical left. It also angers me that we hear so much about Hitler and the Nazis, but like…not much about the Soviet influence in Europe. I wonder if it’s intentional.

I had a good discussion with my friend after the museum. I was able to “come out” to her officially (I’m gay and so far out, that I’m about to go back in the closet cause everything is crazy). But I was able to use that to explain why I’m more conservative….just some of the influences I’ve seen in the LGBT world. She agreed that a lot of the language of the left, “fascist,” “racist “ “equality,” “gender-affirming,” “homophobic,” “LGBT-friendly,” are things that not many people would disagree with on it’s face…but are always cloaking bigger agendas. She said that was like socialism. Anyway, while it’s tough to know what’s really true anymore, I came away having just a little bit more “education” about the Soviet side of things.