I got this idea from a comment made by rooftoptendie. For those of you who considered yourself leftists but had an awakening and now are on the right, if you would, please tell us about your conversion. What made you rethink your stance? What specific things happened that caused you to become redpilled?
It would be interesting to hear your stories, to try to understand the mindset of a leftist and why they believe and think the way they do. But it may also be very helpful in giving tips to those trying to redpill their family and friends. Thanks if you choose to participate.
I was right there too! Bernie or bust, bernouts, etc. When Hillary cheated in the primaries, that was my first awakening. Then, shortly afterwards, I gave a few Trump speeches a listen for the first time, and quickly realized that all that was said about the man were intentionally misleading. Been on the Trump train since mid 2016 baby!
Thank you, tendie. From what you said, it sounds as though you left the democrats more out of anger at their cheating than any actual enthusiasm you had for the right. So at what point did you learn you actually liked Potus Trump and actually did support the platforms on the right? (or did you, lol. Maybe you're just still made at the dems.)
Haha, it does seem that a political awakening is often accompanied by an awakening about God. Glad to hear you've become acquainted with Jesus. I often say that learning about and believing in God is the ultimate redpill. Thanks for answering my question.
I love this. I loved reading the walk away stories on Facebook before that group was deleted.
Did Youtube delete them as well? There used to be quite a few interesting videos from people who walked away. Thanks for posting.
/r/SandersForPresident > /r/HillaryForPrison > /r/The_Donald
I wouldn't say I was leftist at that point (maybe a default liberal who was actually open-minded and was moving sloooowly to the right for the last ~8 years at that point)--I was inoculated from a lot of leftist behavior due to prior experiences. One of the things I learned was that they're filthy fucking liars, and when they say "NO DON'T GO THERE RACISTS LIKE THAT," I know to immediately check it out.
So you were a Bernie bro who recognized hil for what she is, and wound up voting Trump as a sort of protest vote? Is that right? Did you ever get fully on board the Trump train - actually embracing the policies on the right?
I always hated Hillary. The only vote I ever gave Obama was in the primaries against her. Bernie was literally dead to me once he cucked out to Hillary.
I voted 3rd party in 2016. I've said it a few times before, that if the election had been held a week or two later, I would have voted for Trump. I never had TDS and someone on /r/HillaryForPrison linked to a blog post debunking every media lie about Trump at that point.
Maybe a year or two after that I was comfortable with saying I lean libertarian. I will never vote for anyone who is socialist or sympathetic to socialism at this point.
Interesting! Another disaffected Bernie bro. Did you save that post debunking media's lies about Trump? If so, or if you could find it, I'd greatly appreciate it if you'd send it to me. I'm sure a lot of people here would love to see it if you'd post it, in fact. Thanks for answering. It's good to hear what affects people. Glad you've made the change.
I wish I still had it! Can't even remember the title now. I don't think it was even written by a Trump supporter.
Wow. Even more interesting! Too bad. Oh well, thanks. If you happen to remember, I hope you'll look for it. That would go over very well on this board. :D
This is great. Saved to review in a couple days. I have a friend who keeps offering up Fake News as evidence that my thinking process is off & tells me they used to be a Republican until GHWB's time with lies that got us into NSA & Patriot act.
I am building up a deep dive of links for them currently to show them why I think anyone who supports Linn or Sydney certainly has reason to question & refute my friends concept that they are morons pushing BS for Trump.
The guy is one of the kindest & most humble guys I know who just works hard & then spreads his success as thin as he can so others can enjoy it too. I love him like a brother & would do anything for this guy. There are many things we disagree on, but I think it surprised them when I sincerely believed that Bernie was cheated twice on his primary in the last two.
The deeper I dig, the more I am starting to think that deep state has scared everyone into "camps" that don't mix well, but have their uses. I still do not know a single family that doesn't practice socialism/communism in their homes unless they are a completely broken home where the children are not expected to help at all (raising brats that end up in jail/prison). Granted we call it duty & part of being a family. We certainly have some children who will pay siblings to do chores, though that is just a starting place to learn the principles of trade & capitalism.
I have no idea anymore how big a threat Germany or Russia were, though I do know that I will gladly stand next to any of my friends who still are willing to help their fellow man with love & kindness, which many of my sleeper friends are engaged in. I keep praying we all can find & feel the love this world & our Savior wants to give every single one of us as we work together to obtain all that life has to offer for each of our individual desires.
Russia under Putin isn't a threat. Putin has no interest in world domination. Germany under Merkel isn't much of a physical threat right now, much as she might wish it were. It will be interesting to see who replaces her.
Thanks to everyone for commenting. I wish this board would allow threads to be 'bumped' so that more people could see the question and answer if they cared to. It's enlightening. Would be great to see even more responses. Appreciate those who took the time to share their story.
I've always been kind of Republican and Democrat. I've always viewed myself as Kansan first, American second and either party depending on my own personal development. As I've developed I've become more Republican bit by bit. My mom's side of the family is/was old union Democrat. My granpap on that side was a carpenter. He was a WWII veteran. My whole family's real salt of the Earth. My dad was always busy selling and installing flooring and would be gone for weeks and so my mom raised me and my brother to be union left which if you have to raised left that's the best left because they at least realized the value of work. My old man is republican through and through. His side of the family has been in the plains for at least 70 years maybe even 150 depending on how far back you go and who you consider family.
When I first developed a political conscious I was republican because of 9/11. This was around high school so I wasn't able to vote. I got really fed up with it my senior year and saw through the BS because some girls had gotten expelled from my school for wearing anti war t-shirts after they had read about some anti-war protesters in the 60's who wore some peace sign arm bands and that the case had gotten to the Supreme Court. I thought, "Aren't our troops supposedly fighting for free speech in the middle east? Why we can't practice it here? I was initially for the war but what they were saying didn't bother me I had wood shop and Quiz Bowl to go to. Ya know? It was the response from authority that pissed me off.
Sufficed to say by the time I left HS I fell for Obama hook line and sinker. To this day I regret it. He was 10x worse than Bush ever could be. With Bush you knew what you were getting. Obama practically got away with destroying the country because he had a dumb ass grin that white women loved. What made me leave the Dems and become a disaffected moderate was the killing of Michael Hastings and the drone wars. I mean Obama absolutely disregarded everything the Constitution stands for. My good friends kept signing up for the military and kept getting sent off. There were fewer and fewer jobs where I lived so that was good for people who didn't have flat feet and asthma. The rest of us were lucky if we got a bartending job at a crummy biker bar outside of town. You can't start a family on that kind of work.
I floated around for years believing my country was lost. Hilary's e-mails just solidified my disdain for the Dems for life. I'll have to admit I didn't vote for Trump in 2016. My initial reaction was that I thought he was controlled opposition because I remembered he was affiliated with the Dems and NBC. The way I looked at it is regardless of who was chosen NBC hipster shilling college fags would degenerate this country while my friends that were physically able to serve would continue to make the Bushes money.
I came around in probably the weirdest way. I fell for DS MSM narrative on Trump. I had gotten to the point where I was beginning to dislike old lefty friends who kept being condescending as fuck about my religion. I said to myself, "You know what? I'm a white guy and if Trump is a white supremacist then what do I have to lose?" It wasn't until I had a great career and could afford internet at my apartment and did my research that I realized it wasn't about that. He actually gives a damn about his country men. There's a line in "The Merchant of Venice" by Shakespeare that describes this part of my personality.
"You have called me a dog before you had good reason to BUT, because I am a cur you would be wise to beware my fangs."
Interesting! Good to hear that even as a high schooler you were beginning to pay attention. Since you believed the msm lies about Trump, do you have any advice for those trying to redpill others on that subject? Anything in particular that would help them convince their friends and family to actually do some research? Thanks.
Well part of the reason I believed the MSM lies was because that's all I had access too. I moved into this shitty little apartment in the barrio and didn't have money for internet. I had a smart phone but I had a data plan and most of that was spent on calls and texts. I didn't have cable or anything but the hospital my old lady worked at did. I would go pick her up and watch the news. The Chinese food place did, the place my boss sent me for a pick up did. The breakroom had a TV. So it was all around. I took it with a gain of salt because I couldn't seriously imagine a man like Trump being a Nazi. In order to make that work I had to come up with a scenario in which it made sense. Like maybe he belonged to some kind of Secret Council of Supervillians sort of thing.
Another thing that contributed to it were the people I was around. Like I said my "good friends" had joined the military. We're talking about folks that I had known since kindergarten. Farm boys, poor but close knit families and christians. There weren't a ton of jobs in the area so most of them had no choice but to serve. That leaves the worst kind of people. Especially when they all coalesce into the city. It becomes an endless feedback loop of weed smoking, college educated hipsters who believe everything they hear. They need the group think. They were the kind of people who sit around on social media all day and wonder who's party they're going to go to on the weekend. Alot of them have a 7 day weekend.
These are people that say they want to be your friend but then talk shit and plot behind tour back. They were insistent that christians were optimistic cavemen. They would mock me for brining up why I believed in heaven. They would mock me for smelling like grease after a shift so I could pay my way. Then they would say they're my friend and ask me where I was on the weekends I couldn't get off. They want people's acceptance because it means they get free shit and false praise. I've always been a pariah of sorts anyway so acceptance doesn't interest me. Deep down I think that's what really got me into Trump. After he was elected he was America's #1 outcast/rebel. He was kind of like Robin Hood. Obama is a fake renegade. Obama still has his high powered friends. He hasn't lost any of his rich buddies that bank roll him. They all toast champagne and bugger each other then figure out of to off one another afterwards.
Meh. My bad. I'm rambling on again but I'll break down my main suggestions.
Get them out of the feedback loop of liberalism. Figure out how to get them away from electronic media and get them away from their little liberal wolf packs. This whole liberal social order was designed to reinforce bias. It's designed to slowly outcast people for wrong think after they've been humiliated mentally, socially and emotionally. Those are the things that a person looks for in friendships and relationships. Liberals know this and exploit it.
Get them to go somewhere they've never been and tell them to look for a job. They'll look around and find it impossible. When they bitch explain to them this is the new liberal dream. Alot of these people have it nice. Mommy paid for the college they could play around at and daddy could get them a job at the call center when they flunked out. They don't have to get by on their own merits. If they did that would be a different story. Tell them to really look around their environment and ask them if they really think giving up thier future and their kids future for social video game points and momentary social acceptance is really worth it. Is impressing your professor who hates your really guts worth ruining your kids' future? Is schmoozing the government for a hand out really worth personal stagnation?
Tell them it's ok to be a little selfish in time and demeanor. Life is not a holier than thou contest. I think liberals try to prove that you can be a good person with out having God but next thing you know they're stealing shit at someone's housewarming and beating women. They do it to try and work you over. That way they can do the "agree to disagree" thing and still have a couch to crash on. Tell them it's ok to be upfront about hating hating people you disagree with. I tru to be respectful when I first meet people but I talk so much mad shit on people to their face when we disagree. These people know where I stand. That's real respect. I'm not going to run them around I have better things to do with my time. If they don't like it I'm not going to suck back up to get what I want out of them. I'll just go to my apartment and figure out how to be a better person. I don't need them like they need me. If that makes me an asshole then why are you missing me?
Alright. Thanks for the suggestions!
That's a great quote.
Yeah. No one where I'm from says nice shit about anyone. I've never had my ass kissed. To an extent I like it when people talk shit at me. It amps me up. It gets me rowdy. It's great. When people call me a bitch it's fun as fuck to let the wolf loose and correct the record. I'm the kind of mother fucker that'll put my forehead through a fucker's nose when they step up and talk shit at the bar. Wounds heal. Reputation and honor take decades to build.
dont know why people post comments here only to delete them. seems rediculous. anyway, looking forward to reading comments here.
Perhaps the comments get removed upon moderation? No idea either