God I was so naive back then. During the run-up to that election, I watched Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann every single night. I lapped it all up completely. I was repulsed by John McCain and Sarah Palin. I laughed at Tina Fey on SNL and browsed Digg to laugh at how stupid Republicans were.

I thought Obama's election win would be the culmination of the previous 60 years of the civil rights movement, and that we'd truly be done with race being a factor for anything.

After Obama was elected, I stopped following politics for the most part. By 2012, I still voted for Obama but I wasn't enthusiastic about it like the first time.

I paid enough attention during his first term to know that he turned out to be just another politician, but it wasn't until early in his second term that I started realizing just how bad he was for America.

If I had to pick one incident that opened my eyes, it was watching the police brutality awareness movement get hijacked by BLM. Anyone who browsed reddit regularly in the 2-3 years leading up to BLM's founding can tell you that police brutality videos were all over the front page. Those were the first few years after smartphones exploded in popularity and even your grandma could now easily film Police brutality incidents. In those threads, race was rarely mentioned. Everyone agreed that police officers needed to be held accountable when they were caught red-handed breaking the law.

The movement was organically gaining steam, but then BLM was founded and propped up by the media. Suddenly it became all about black people. That disgusted me and I was completely against BLM from day one. Then I saw Obama and everyone else suck BLM cock and that was it. There was no going back.