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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.