I was a default liberal until about 10 years ago, will be voting Republican for the rest of my life. There were a number of reasons for my change, but Trump winning in 2016 definitely accelerated my political awakening (I was already moderate at that point). While the lefties around me were acting like the world was ending, I recovered from the shock within a day or two. I decided to figure out what I and so many others had missed.
I started listening to conservatives again, realizing that I agreed with quite a bit of what they had to say. I was also hearing and learning about things that I was completely insulated from when I was in the liberal bubble. It was unsettling to realize that the disabled reporter that Trump was supposedly making fun of had a very mild disability that in no way affected his speech or cognitive function. I remember seeing Gavin McGinnis (whom I now absolutely despise) play a clip of the "disabled" reporter talking and acting in a completely normal manner and thinking, "Oh my God, they lied, or at the very best, misled. What else have they lied to us or misled us about?" And then subsequently watching them lie about just about everything that Trump did during his first term.
The brainwashing started to break and there was no going back. I had been completely programmed and did not realize it until then. When Trump won, I was scared for gay people, but I had no idea why. I wasn't actually scared, though. I just knew that I was SUPPOSED to be scared. I was programmed, and I still see this same programming in the liberals all around me. It's the reason why all of these leftie women and effeminate men are losing their minds in Minnesota, defending illegal alien pedophiles and Somali scammers. The have been completely programmed, ideologically captured.
A few other reasons:
- Living in a big city for a few years
- Covid
- Summer of 2020
- Believe All Women
- The Future Is Female
This was the moment I realized that something was wrong. Once the incident at Evergreen University (Bret Weinstein) took place, I knew we were screwed and that things were going to get really ugly and stupid. Just another moment among many that pushed me farther right.
One more thing:
There was a radio host that I was an avid listener of for a number of years. I liked him because, since he was on a little pea shooter AM signal that did not have local coverage in any of the nearby large markets, he could get away with saying "offensive" and funny things that the hosts on the 50,000 watt sticks in the big cities could never dream of saying on the air. He was a registered Democrat, but definitely more of the "blue dog" type, and not very PC. In other words, he would be considered a normal person before the country went full-retard. At some point, he either started getting dumber and more liberal, or I started getting more conservative and just started noticing things a bit more. Maybe a bit of both. One of the moments when I started questioning why I was still listening to him was when he argued that "I could care less" was the correct phrase! He wasn't trolling, he was being dead serious. This same guy also argued that the Kenosha police should have let Jacob Blake drive off and apprehended him at a later time. That was the day I stopped listening to him and the station he was on. This man was probably in his late 60s at the time he was saying these things! Never underestimate the ability of stupid "smart" people to double down on their ignorance.
This same guy also said that we should not judge Jacob Blake based on his criminal past, as if this guy was elderly and stole a TV when he was a teenager or something. Blake was not that old, his criminal past was all relatively recent. His fellow lefty bleeding heart newsman agreed with him. That was the day I realized that "Liberalism Is A Mental Disorder" was not just some cringe thing that conservative boomers posted on social media, it was 100 PERCENT TRUE.
