It was two things.

First was 9/11. Before then, I was a naive liberal who thought "Why should we focus so much on defense? It's not like anyone's going to ATTACK us. It'd be suicide if they did!"

I'm not joking, that was my reasoning.

I became quite the warmonger after that, but as Iraq, whose invasion I at first supported, dragged on interminably long, I started to ask a few uncomfortable questions about how things really worked.

And then, in 2015, came the second revelation: Donald Trump. I didn't like him at first, but I dug further into what he said, and realized, warts and all, that he really was our best hope for the culture war. Roe would never have gotten overturned if not for him.

Now I hate the military-industrial complex and the blackmailing puppetmasters that own just about everyone with a little power.

Thankfully, the bad times will end sooner than you think.