I suppose it might be enlightening to talk about what inspired me to create this site.
Right around that fateful day of January 6, 2021, all of social media seemed to withdraw membership or suspend posting rights to the most powerful man on the planet, the President of the United States. Now, let it be known that back in 2016 I was in no way a Donald Trump fan. I considered him to be ill suited to the job of chief statesman for our country and there was really nothing he himself did that changed that opinion during his four years in office. What did make me more willing to back him were his policies that created a booming economy rather than an anemic Obama inspire economy, his willingness to confront, rather than coddle tyrants around in places like China and Iran and his successes in negotiating peace agreements in the Middle East. But it was the radical left that really drove me to become a Trump voter by the time the 2020 election rolled around.
Regardless of my opinion about what happened (or didn’t happen) on election night, I accepted the fact that Joe Biden was going to be the next United States President By the time January 6 rolled around I had become fed up with both Trump’s tweets and behavior. What set me off was not that Donald Trump was being silenced by seemingly every tech company on the internet but that tech companies like Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon and YouTube were colluding to take down any conservative voices they could find. Parler was an alternative to Twitter. Apple, Twitter, Facebook and Google conspired together in an attempt to wipe them off the internet. Their excuse was that it was Parler that had enabled the January 6 Capitol Hill riot. Facebook group #Walkaway was obliterated overnight for no good reason. Tech companies were working hand in hand with the Democratic Party to silence opposition since the Progressives knew they couldn’t legally do so under the auspices of the government itself. And the most frustrating thing about it all was that the rules that these companies accused conservatives of breaking seemed to either have been made up on the spot or were only enforced when conservatives “broke” them and were completely ignored when the radical progressive left did so. Twitter and Facebook are only he most obvious double standard holders.
My anger was compounded when I wrote a post about this situation on Facebook and it was pooh poohed by some leftist friends, brushed away by others or, most infuriatingly, gaslit. I had some far lefties telling me that, no, there really is no censorship going on at all. That was the straw that broke the camel’s back. I already suspect that I have cost myself jobs in education simply because of the the political views I hold. I refuse to further bury myself or send myself into apoplexy because I might somehow break one of Facebook’s for-conservative-only rules.
And that is how I came up with the idea for wellbut.com. Here I can spew my feelings to the world without worrying if I might somehow offend a snowflake friend or the powers that be, It doesn’t have nearly the reach but it has the freedom I crave.