‘Family Ties’ star Justine Bateman criticizes ‘un-American period’ over past 4 years: ‘Common sense discarded’

In the wake of a landslide Republican election victory, filmmaker and actress Justine Bateman said Friday that she had been “walking on eggshells” for the past four years, a period she called “un-American.”

“I have found the last four years to be an almost intolerable period. A very un-American period, in that every question, every opinion, every like or dislike was held up to a very limited list of ‘allowed positions’ to judge acceptable,” Bateman wrote on X..

Bateman, who appeared on hit TV shows “Family Ties” and “Desperate Housewives,” further added that she has never known such relationships “to be an American environment.”

‘Family Ties’ actress Justine Bateman described the past four years of the Biden administration as “un-American”. (NBC/Desiree Navarro)

“It’s an environment I’ve encountered in smaller groupings (a church, a private club, a clique), but never before as a national blanket. It’s been suffocating. Common sense was discarded, intellectual discussion was demonized,” she said .

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She went on to say, “Permitted position” behavior and speech was “permitted.” Complete intolerance became almost a religion, and one’s professional and social life was almost constantly threatened. Those who spoke otherwise were destroyed as a warning to others.

“Their devastation was displayed in ‘Townsquare’ on social media for all to see.”

Bateman’s comments came after President-elect Donald Trump’s landslide Election Day victory over Vice President Kamala Harris by sweeping every battleground state, securing the Electoral College as well as the popular vote.

Harris congratulated Trump over the phone Wednesday morning and later gave her concession speech at her alma mater, Howard University.

Trump’s second presidential election came alongside GOP wins Senate majority and get more seats in Parliament.

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It has the victory of the Republican Party gave rise to many discussions within the Democratic Party, including Harris-Walz surrogates, to reflect for themselves on what led to the outcome, especially given that a Republican has not won both the popular vote and the Electoral College in over 20 years. For example, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., accused the Democratic Party of abandoning the working class.

The Republican Party’s victory has prompted many discussions within the Democratic Party, including Harris-Walz surrogates, to reflect for themselves on what led to President-elect Donald Trump’s victory. (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

Bateman added that the suppression of speech over the past four years has stifled the country from any “forward movement” because it has shut out “independent thinkers and cultural and intellectual innovators.”

“This was the #MeMeMeMeToo moment, when you did everything to divert attention to yourself, instead of recognizing how you contribute to the whole. This was the era of trying to exert control over those who did not want to follow crowd and have their own ideas about what to do,” Bateman said.

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“When you starve a community of those who are called to be independent thinkers and cultural and intellectual innovators, you rob that community of any forward movement,” she continued. “Those who tried to impose that control maintained a kind of ‘hall monitor’ position by threatening others with damning labels like ‘sexist’, ‘racist’, ‘homophobic’, etc., when freethinking and questioning were no such thing .

“But the mob mentality that followed caused these social beliefs when there was often no evidence to support them,” she said, pointing to the book “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.”

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“I am neither one extreme nor the other, but am one of the millions of people who believe in common sense, and that everyone should be free to live their lives as they please, unless that freedom interferes with someone else’s freedom to live their own life, that’s what she concluded.

Bateman’s remarks followed several other celebritiesmany of whom supported Harris, soul-searching after the Republican’s decisive victory. “The Big Short” director and staunch progressive Adam McKay announced that he was leaving the Democratic Party for the Green Party, or Working Class Families Party.