For me it was Evergreen College. (I hope I'm getting that right). I remember watching the videos and thinking "Man they are in for a major wake up call", but then that didn't happen. Instead the faculty just caved and acquiesced to absolute imbeciles.
I remember thinking "What the hell are the faculty doing?!" They need to expel these morons!
Then I saw this Jordan Peterson video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM7jpTJWPkg (can't find the original, but this is the video) And thought "wow, a voice of reason!" but instead he was attacked.
I was asleep a long time, I just didn't care about politics. I was entirely unaware of the lying media.
Politics to me was "boring and irrelevant". Every politician that came to power never really affected me. I'd see cries of "The economy is doing horrible" and I did not see any difference whatsoever. The economy is doing great vs the economy is doing horrible looked identical to me.
The first time a politician actually had an affect on my life was Obama, with "Obama Care". Suddenly my insurance shot up in price and absolutely sucked. I'm off on a tangent and this is before I noticed "Wokeness", but I have seen it infect everything now. My job, my kid's school, the job's of everyone I know, and the nation as a whole.
When did you start to notice it?
No tangent at all, the Affordable Care Act was a key turning point in American tyranny. If you previously didn’t pay attention to politics, your instincts were good that obamacare was a big deal in a very bad way. The health insurance corporations wrote the bill and bribed the politicians to pass it, and the bill mandated citizens to be forced to purchase the products of the health insurance corporations. It was a new level of brazen corruption. It resulted in the main about seven health insurance corporations consolidating down to about four so that they could engage in oligopolistic practices such as price fixing. Then citizens got high premiums, deductibles, and copays, but for low coverage.
Props for oligopolistic.