Thought of you guys when I saw this
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Fair enough.
I am sorry that you seem to have lost so much, my friend. You seem to have gone through much more than most in your journey from one side to another and that does speak to the strength of your convictions.
No one enjoys going through hardship only to be told they're a bad person for having had to go through it in the first place. I see this attitude a lot in Conservative camps from people who've never had to reevaluate a single opinion they ever held and I hold it in just as much contempt as I hold the Left in. It's outright derision of personal growth and that's a very unhealthy message to be propagating, both morally and from a more cynical pragmatic standpoint as well, although I attribute far more importance to the former.
And I'm as bitter and hateful as I am because of how much hardship I had to endure under during those days just to come out on the other side with a lot of the people who were gladly trying to stone me before "suddenly" switching sides and trying to act like my comrade in the battle they brought upon us.
I'll concede my grudges are both petty and likely unhelpful, but I am unwilling to fully let them go either because of how bad some of those days got. And I hold you no true ill will through them, regardless.
Where else would new allies come from when everyone has already taken sides?