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For the most part I have aged into liberalism. Older I get and the more shit I have seen.
Before: What do you mean institutional racism is a thing? I am not racist, no one I know is racist. Oh sure there are skinheads, but they are in jail. Since I don't see it, it must not be there.
Now: I just saw my friend who is black get treated like he was a dangerous criminal because of the crime of walking.
Stuff like that for example. I am doing well, I got mine. I want everyone else to get there's as well.
Elder millennial here. Same. Grew up in a conservative, religious house hold, thinking we were some kind of bastion of morality, while the blue team was dead set on blending babies down into a paste for their satanic rituals n' shit. Started actually paying attention to politics in the Clinton presidency, but ofc was hyper-focused on shit that doesn't matter (relative to actual policy, anyway) like his affair, so cue the confirmation bias.
Then Bush happened, but by then I was actually thinking critically, so there was a lot of "wtf, I know he's on our team, but this isn't right". I was still a fucking idiot though, so I landed in the "bOtH siDeS arE teH sAMe!!" trap and championed the Libertarian party for a bit.
Eventually realized the LP, despite having some sincerely decent concepts on paper (shoutout to the non-aggression principle), boiled down to just handing corporations the reigns of the nation; and that the notion of the free market policing itself is a laughable pipe dream (reality check for pretty much any Libertarian proposal: "What would telecoms do with this proposed power?").
And I couldn't support the blue team because... um... well there was the situation with Clinton's blowjob... and, uh... hmmmm... why the fuck have I been vilifying them all this time?! FINALLY took a closer look at the real left's goals, and not just Fox's boogeyman fantasy version, and FINALLY realized I'd been drinking the right's kool-aid from basically birth all the way through the Libertarian phase.
Fast forward another decade-ish and 2016 happened, which really pulled off the last shred of veneer that used to present the GOP as anything other than seething hateful cultists: that was the kick in the ass that made me realize that I've got some catching up to do, and urgently. Haven't missed an election since, big or small: solid blue.
The really important bit here: none of ^that is unique. It took some blundering in the dark to realize that I was... well, blundering in the dark; but I was raised alongside a horde of other kids whose parents "shifted right as they aged" and just didn't question the boogeyman fantasy shit until we got out of the house, and then turned left. Then more left. Then ALL THE WAY LEFT.
And it's not just in blue bubbles, either - I was active duty in the military when we switched from Obama to Trump; the military definitely leans right, but it's not absolute as it's often presented. Even there, a significant portion of the servicemen and women I interacted with were on track wit their own version of my rant here. People in general, but millennial and younger especially, are REALLY sick of this neonazi, christofascist shit on the red team.
It's kind of amazing how much the military still leans right after all the Trump shit.
The draft dodging, the incredible disrespect for the military, the obscene bullshit like the hurricane marker incident, the dictator worship, the subservience to Putin, and of course the coup. I would think military people would be better at recognizing incompetence at least.
A couple redditers put together a list of links to articles highlighting each of Trump's attacks on our own military, from policy to just disrespectful shit like his "I lIkE pEopLe wHo wErn'T cApTUrEd."
Ignoring the shit he did against every other slice of our nation, and JUST focusing on things that hurt the military/vets, there had to be around a hundred links.
I definitely converted a few people with that list.
But yeah, the right's kool-aid is a potent drug - it's easy to just keep chugging without question.
Do you still have the link to that post?
No, the original got deleted. Looks like there have been a few attempts to recreate it though: found one that looks decent, but reddit's being fucky with the comments actually showing up in the thread they were posted - it's a 3 part post and only one shows up, but if you look at the user's comment history you can see them all back to back. This link should bring you to the correct page, ctrl+F "PT 3 -.-" to jump to it. It's reverse chronological, so the the pt 3 is the last, with the 2nd and 1st appearing under it.
Infact, fuggit, I hate directing traffic to reddit, and I've got the pages open now. Gimme a min and I'll just get the list + links over as a post here.
Edit - Here ya go:
https://lemmy.world/post/8041636
Ah, the good old tango of
"Yeah, sure, we could do That Thing with the proposed powers, but we'd NEVER EVER do That Thing, we're not evil after all. We just ABSOLUTELY NEED the capability to do That Thing right now. K, thanks.
Whoops, we did That Thing."