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This is more accurate than you realize.
I'm an ex-leftist. A similar reaction to the truth is what started me down the road of realizing that almost everything I believed was dead wrong.
A lot of introspection followed. Months of it.
If you got through it in mere months, you're a much smarter man than I.
#GG is where I came to the clear realization that, "these motherfuckers are lying about everything," but it wasn't until the 2016 election that I was able to comfortably say, "I don't know what I am but I'm definitely not a Democrat."
I forgot to mention that it also involved getting right with God--I gave my heart to Jesus Christ around that time.
I'm probably going to get downvoted by certain people for saying that, but whatever. It's what really happened.
People who didn't live through 2001 as a conscious being (for some, that's ten or eleven years old, for others, fifty wasn't old enough) simply cannot understand the effect it had on people.
I would guess that our recent ancestors might have said the same thing about the nuclear scares of the Cold War, or the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the Civil War, or our less recent ancestors the Black Death or the Fall of Rome.
I still distinctly remember 9/11 attacks when I was 3 ½ years old, watching a live broadcast of I think an Iraqi state television. That and 2003 invasion.
#GG has turned up a lot of info. The going theory is that Anita was part of a Saudi spy ring embedded in a Russian spy ring embedded in a British spy ring.
If you don't mind sharing more on what it was exactly that triggered your change, I would love to read it.
It started with the 9/11 attacks. Before then, I was a Green Party communist.
My reasoning was "Why do we spend so much on defense and war? It's not like anyone's going to ATTACK us!"
And then I saw the World Trade Center burn on my college student-union TV. I still remember that CNN.com was having trouble loading because of the immense amount of traffic to the website, so it had to go to safe-mode basic structure.
Gradually, I became much more of a conservative warmonger, not wanting anything even closely resembling that atrocity to ever happen to Americans again. I supported the 2003 Iraq invasion for the same reason--preventative measures.
This lasted almost a decade...until it finally occurred to me: "Wait. Shouldn't we have thoroughly kicked their asses by now? Why are we still over there? Why are we still letting our boys die for this?"
My first thought was that we had been too soft--that we should have just glassed the whole damn country to send a message.
Enter Donald Trump.
Through him and the The_Donald subreddit, which is now patriots.win and the foundation of this whole damn website, I realized that old Orwell quote was the absolute truth:
"The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous."
Because it means the rich get richer. War profiteers.
War is a scam. A fucking SCAM.
Amen, brother. This is true of all problems that leftists pretend to tackle. Half-hearted utopian bandaid solutions that accomplish nothing except winning elections, résumé-boosting, taxpayer money changing hands, and dividing the lower classes against each other. It's the eternal war over kicking the can down the road.
Thank you for sharing! You broke out, that's quite the achievement.
Yeah, it's that moment when you know that there's no response you can think of that isn't either something you know isn't true, or something that directly undermines the validity of your ideology.
So you say nothing, and silently acquiesce.
Maybe you go home and and you search for answers. Maybe you ignore it for months. But enough interactions like that and the only kind of person who sticks with their former beliefs is either some kind of psycho, or some kind of retard.