Do you think some of us were always right wing in the beginning?

I voted straight Democrat since 2002. 2016 and 2020 I voted Trump. 8 years ago I was a globalist idiot, I thought nationalism was cringe. I was a militant atheist, I thought blindly taxing the rich would solve all our problems, and I blindly defended aloha snackbars and thought people were being racist for hating on them.

Now I'm a nationalist, I find militant and Reddit atheists to be insufferable and I believe in the US being founded on Christian values and that is what ultimately allows us to keep a stable society. I now know how reckless it is to blindly tax and regulate corporations (because it always kicks small and medium businesses in the nuts first), and the aloha snackbars Europe is importing are generally ones who just want to mooch off of the European welfare state to expand their own mini-Muslim nations and NOT to integrate into Western society.

I picked up all this shit because I saw some right wingers arguing with leftists in various channels and I started researching myself and reading up on these statistics and facts being laid down by people like u/dekachin.

These folks left breadcrumbs for me to follow and I followed along.

For fucks sake man, I had no idea what negative vs positive rights are, and I learned really quickly as to why the US' Constitution is one of the most robust and powerful Constitutions out there, and that's because it's something based off of NEGATIVE rights. Know how I found out about the difference? Looked it up, saw a video by a Libertarian group explaining it, and it made complete sense.

Another thing? I looked up what a globalist was. I initially thought it was some Alex Jones conspiracy level shit. Guess where that led me? To an older video of Lauren Southern during her Rebel News days comparing globalism to nationalism. I was still a disaffected leftist at that point (anti-SJW but pro Bernie), but I sat down and listened to her breaking it down. At first her globalist stance attacked leftists, and that almost made me click away, then she described how neocons like George Bush, Cheney, Dan Crenshaw, etc. are globalists as well but for different reasons and are equally a threat.

I also realized a lot of globalists are actually anti-progressive in some cases, and I learned real quick there was a HUGE divide between the working class pro-union/pro blue collar class of progressives who leaned being nationalist/populist, versus upper class arrogant elitist "Green" types who believe in a one world government that would love to push their environmentalist shit and would love to see the world "united" to do it.

Maybe it was me being open minded, I dunno, but seeing randos argue on plebbit broke me out of my NPC programming after GamerGate. So yes, it's "cringy" to Own The Libs, but keep making those points. Simply giving up is how we got here.