Some hope. I'm gonna share a very private and intimate message with all of you.
My wife is largely apolitical and her red pill pretty much consisted of just believing that orange man isn't that bad. After the november election I started digging for the truth, discovered Q, took the red pill, discovered pizza gate.
My wife isn't very religious, but she is very spiritual with a strong sixth sense, if that makes sense.
I walked away from God a decade ago. Discovering how deep evil truly goes sent me back to him. I haven't told my wife much, just little bits here and there. However she's seen me reading the Bible at night, she's seen me praying and she's seen me crying as I pray for the kids. All I've told her about it is that the truth scared the living day lights out of me and it's worse than she can imagine.
Today she sent me this message (I would screenshot it, but it's in Afrikaans, our native language) "I'm really glad that there are people, who like you, question things and start waking up. It's brought a very positive change in you in general, in our relationship and in our lives. I know you discovered horrifying things and it haunts you, but it really feels to me as if a light has entered your life and our relationship. The best way I can describe it is if someone opened a door oor a window to let light in. I'm so grateful and privaleged to know you are willing to wade through so much horrible info and absorb it cause you want to find the truth. I love you and I couldn't ask for a better husband."
My point being, I dunno your circumstances, or what has transpired in your life. But let the awakening draw you closer to God and let that light change the people around you. Sometimes you can't hit people over the head with the red pill, sometimes your life has to be the red pill.
Blessings and love, frens
WWG1WGA
This is a very beautiful story, I appreciate you sharing it on here!
My "political awakening" almost five years ago (not too different from yours) was preceded by a spiritual awakening many years prior, and I often draw parallels between the two. My spiritual awakening taught me to listen to my intuition and the "small still voice inside," which was what later spoke to me to let me know that "all was not as it seems" politically, and I began to question the narrative about Trump in 2016 after people I knew were trying to bully me into voting for Hilary Clinton (I was a Bernie supporter before that but could not stand Hilary). Since that initial questioning, my eyes have only opened more and more.
Mikenificent from Right Side Broadcasting has a pretty amazing story as well; as I recall he was miserable living in a very blue city and prayed to God until God told him "move to Florida." He took a chance, packed up all his stuff, moved down and started driving for Uber. He would sometimes pick up people in MAGA hats--he was initially unsettled by them, but after many very genuine and open conversations, he realized that they were actually good people and that the media had been feeding him lies--and now he is in the role he is in! It's pretty incredible, but it does go to show that by turning to God with an open heart and listening to your inner guidance, you can change your entire life.
wait so you've gone whiplash from Socialist Bernie Bro to MAGA Q-Tard??? Wow what a rush!
I was never a socialist, per se; I followed him for less than a year and wasn't really thinking it through all that much in those days. What I really liked most about Bernie at the time was his anti-corporatist stance and his desire to break up some of those elite circles of power; I still despise corporate culture to this day, especially the technocrats who are effectively running our country now. But when Bernie let BLM take his microphone and immediately bent the knee when the DNC gave the nomination to Hillary instead of him, I was done.
Some people were saying at the time, though, that Bernie and Trump's campaigns actually had some parallels/similarities in that they were both grassroots-driven and that both of them were populists. So I think it actually wasn't all that far of a stretch if you notice that both of their follower bases are largely anti-establishment politics (or at least, used to be/parts of them were)! There's also sort of that horseshoe effect where if you go far enough to one extreme of the polarity, you might actually jump over to the other side of the spectrum--if that makes sense? I don't agree with progressives on almost any issues these days, but there are certain topics where I do occasionally agree with them. And at least some of them do genuinely believe in what they are spouting off (however misguided it might be), versus the phony power-hungry neoliberal/neoconservative ruling block who only care about saying whatever it takes to get elected.
And again, at that time I hadn't really parsed through the financial side of things (it would take a long time to explain "where I was at" and what had brought me to that point) and this was before I became aware of what identity politics actually are. I'm not claiming to be a poli sci expert; I was mostly going with the messaging that resonated with me at the time, the process of which eventually led me to Trump. But hey, you live, you learn...
fair enough.