Same here - I went from being a BernieBro to a right wing populist in 7 years. I am fighting the thing I wanted to be now and what's depressing is I'm surrounded by idiot midwits who think they're still fighting a right wing tradcon Fox News boomer conservative base from 2012.
So many of my longtime friends do not get it. At ALL. They do not think when they consoom information. It's frustrating.
Agreed. Except, I didn't feel right calling myself a Liberal. Now I can call myself a Revolutionary Liberal because this country is a Liberal country founded by Revolutionary Liberal Republicans.
There is no such thing as a Liberal Democracy because Liberalism is anti-Democratic, and Democracy is anti-Liberal. Democracy is the construction of "The People's State" where the people are the state and the state are the people. The final endpoint of Democracy is Totalitarianism. Universal Suffrage is the enemy of human freedom. Political Representation is a lie to placate people into thinking the state isn't a deadly weapon. This is the purpose of Republicanism: segregate political power and set it against itself so that "political consensus" becomes impossible and ambition must remain in the realm of voluntary economic transactions; rather than politics. Reinstate property ownership mandates for voting. Repeal the 17th Amendment. Establish state-level electoral colleges.
This... fairly massive change in my policy opinions isn't a massive change in my principles. It's just realizing that Leftist narratives had been constructed on intentional lies for so long I applied my principles to the lies. Truth radicalized me. Not some conspiratorial "secret truth hidden by a cabal". Just the regular truth of recognizing the bad behavior of bad actors who have never stopped fucking lying.
I wish we could just play video games. But the enemies of human freedom and society insured that that was just another way of normalizing their new normal. Their actions have been so cynical, and so malicious, for so many decades, that I realize that we are simply in a life-long war against a lust for power and deceit.
I went from life-long leftist to McCarthy Did Nothing Wrong Except Stop in the space of 1 year.
You can't plug back into the Matrix, Cypher.
I just wanted to play video games man.
What happened.
God called.
Same here - I went from being a BernieBro to a right wing populist in 7 years. I am fighting the thing I wanted to be now and what's depressing is I'm surrounded by idiot midwits who think they're still fighting a right wing tradcon Fox News boomer conservative base from 2012.
So many of my longtime friends do not get it. At ALL. They do not think when they consoom information. It's frustrating.
Check out the eceonomics lectures at MisesMedia on YTube
It's a familiar arc. I started out plugged into all the Left's cultural messaging and now I'm team "Right Wing Death Squads When?"
I wouldn't go back if you offered me the choice though. The truth matters.
Agreed. Except, I didn't feel right calling myself a Liberal. Now I can call myself a Revolutionary Liberal because this country is a Liberal country founded by Revolutionary Liberal Republicans.
There is no such thing as a Liberal Democracy because Liberalism is anti-Democratic, and Democracy is anti-Liberal. Democracy is the construction of "The People's State" where the people are the state and the state are the people. The final endpoint of Democracy is Totalitarianism. Universal Suffrage is the enemy of human freedom. Political Representation is a lie to placate people into thinking the state isn't a deadly weapon. This is the purpose of Republicanism: segregate political power and set it against itself so that "political consensus" becomes impossible and ambition must remain in the realm of voluntary economic transactions; rather than politics. Reinstate property ownership mandates for voting. Repeal the 17th Amendment. Establish state-level electoral colleges.
This... fairly massive change in my policy opinions isn't a massive change in my principles. It's just realizing that Leftist narratives had been constructed on intentional lies for so long I applied my principles to the lies. Truth radicalized me. Not some conspiratorial "secret truth hidden by a cabal". Just the regular truth of recognizing the bad behavior of bad actors who have never stopped fucking lying.
I wish we could just play video games. But the enemies of human freedom and society insured that that was just another way of normalizing their new normal. Their actions have been so cynical, and so malicious, for so many decades, that I realize that we are simply in a life-long war against a lust for power and deceit.