I was a moderate who voted democrats, here is my wake-up story.
In 2016/17 time frame I was returning to Jesus Christ. I had sullied myself with loads of pornography, adultery, casual encounters, lying and just having been a really bad person. I decided to come back to Christ for forgiveness, because I couldn't live up to the ideals that I had for myself, and I started to understand how wrong I'd been, and how lucky I had been, and how foolish I had been. Jesus Christ saved me, and started me down a path to see what I was supporting.
I perked up in 2020. 2016 Democrat primary theft by Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and Hillary Clinton, the leaked emails were the first crack in my armor.
2nd crack? Media was so hateful towards Trump, far more than others.
3rd crack? BLM Riots, lying media. Trump had been warning the world that the media was full of liars. Literally "Fiery, but mostly peaceful". Deceivers.
4th crack: I watched the video of Kyle Rittenhouse defending himself, while all my leftist friends wanted his blood and ignored that it was other people attacking him, one with a literal gun, blunt weapons. They made every excuse for their side. No logic would sway them and they circled me like a shark.
Final Wake-up: I was relieved to see Donald J Trump winning the election. I stayed up late, I watched them shutdown, come up with non-sense, and literally steal an election that was in the bag for Donald Trump. I knew instantly that the mail in ballots were gonna be counted last, I knew instantly that the 'last minute' vote counts would always be for blue candidate. I was not surprised to follow the news here to find so much fraud. I decided I was a republican from then on out.
So what does a person who breaks free from this do?
He starts listening to voices on the right, earnestly. Expecting rhetoric, I started doing so on reddit r/conservative. I found mostly thoughtful and weighed opinions. People were not calling for blood and were not demonizing opponents. I was used to that on the left from places like r/politics.
Found the media portrayal of people was ignorant and honestly demonizing. I grew up in a small town, and kids being kids, and young and stupid, I kind figured they were just like their parents. So I had written them off and gone with the side that was nicer to me. So I got to see how people had just grown out of that silliness. I did eventually find out that I was literally an un-diagnosed autistic. L1 ASD. High functioning, which explains a lot, and honestly, probably a lot of the ribbing and jabbing back in school.
When confronted with viewpoints and ideas counter to what I used to hold on the left, I found that I didn't think for myself, or had surrendered thinking on intellectually difficult subjects to 'experts' who were really just partisans.
I honestly found that when I say down, it was laid out, I agreed with republicans 90% of the time.
I discovered the Cabal. I discovered the true history of WWII, The true history of the MIC, I discovered the Epstein debacle, and I discovered so many other awful things. I knew in my heart, and sensed the desperation in the media. I sensed the desperation in the way they phrased and placed questions out there. I sensed their unholy hunger to convince, their desperation to exhort blue think. I could feel it. I don't know how to describe it to you, but when I watched them talk to Ramaswamy the other day, it was barely contained, thick in the air, there is ZERO objectivity, only a desire to poorly construct traps, and make veiled accusations, to tie you to an undesirable pier, to destroy you. They have seriously overplayed their hands. They are so so so so so so desperate and it's so obvious to anyone watching. It's like watching people who are clawing at the strings of life, desperate to hold on. They are afraid.
Sorry I was late lads, but I have been on your side since Nov 2020; and I am awake and alert now. No one is thinking for me. I watch the video and I make my own conclusions, I consider the position and think about how God would want me to deal. You can't deal with people who platform unrighteousness.
Thanks for sharing your story, it’s great to read!
It matches my experience quite a bit too. I leaned more Republican, but I definitely frequented all the places you did, and bought into a lot of it.
I actually thought during 2016 that Hillary Clinton would be the lesser evil over Trump, if you can believe that.
But like you, I saw the visceral hatred for Trump that just didn’t match his actions. During COVID, I saw Trump say one thing live on TV, and then saw the media completely make up that Trump said another thing by the evening news.
But the real eye opener was watching the election be stolen in 2020, and then being suspended from nearly every platform just for asking questions.
Once you see all the lies and manipulation, you can’t unsee it, but I’m grateful for that and grateful you’re here too!
Oh yeah, I went through like 4 different reddit accounts before I gave up and went to that clone that shutdown a while back, the open-source one that caved really hard in the end.
It was sad to watch the site owners and moderators just fold there.
I was a moderate who voted democrats, here is my wake-up story.
In 2016/17 time frame I was returning to Jesus Christ. I had sullied myself with loads of pornography, adultery, casual encounters, lying and just having been a really bad person. I decided to come back to Christ for forgiveness, because I couldn't live up to the ideals that I had for myself, and I started to understand how wrong I'd been, and how lucky I had been, and how foolish I had been. Jesus Christ saved me, and started me down a path to see what I was supporting.
I perked up in 2020. 2016 Democrat primary theft by Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and Hillary Clinton, the leaked emails were the first crack in my armor.
2nd crack? Media was so hateful towards Trump, far more than others.
3rd crack? BLM Riots, lying media. Trump had been warning the world that the media was full of liars. Literally "Fiery, but mostly peaceful". Deceivers.
4th crack: I watched the video of Kyle Rittenhouse defending himself, while all my leftist friends wanted his blood and ignored that it was other people attacking him, one with a literal gun, blunt weapons. They made every excuse for their side. No logic would sway them and they circled me like a shark.
Final Wake-up: I was relieved to see Donald J Trump winning the election. I stayed up late, I watched them shutdown, come up with non-sense, and literally steal an election that was in the bag for Donald Trump. I knew instantly that the mail in ballots were gonna be counted last, I knew instantly that the 'last minute' vote counts would always be for blue candidate. I was not surprised to follow the news here to find so much fraud. I decided I was a republican from then on out.
So what does a person who breaks free from this do?
He starts listening to voices on the right, earnestly. Expecting rhetoric, I started doing so on reddit r/conservative. I found mostly thoughtful and weighed opinions. People were not calling for blood and were not demonizing opponents. I was used to that on the left from places like r/politics.
Found the media portrayal of people was ignorant and honestly demonizing. I grew up in a small town, and kids being kids, and young and stupid, I kind figured they were just like their parents. So I had written them off and gone with the side that was nicer to me. So I got to see how people had just grown out of that silliness. I did eventually find out that I was literally an un-diagnosed autistic. L1 ASD. High functioning, which explains a lot, and honestly, probably a lot of the ribbing and jabbing back in school.
When confronted with viewpoints and ideas counter to what I used to hold on the left, I found that I didn't think for myself, or had surrendered thinking on intellectually difficult subjects to 'experts' who were really just partisans.
I honestly found that when I say down, it was laid out, I agreed with republicans 90% of the time.
I discovered the Cabal. I discovered the true history of WWII, The true history of the MIC, I discovered the Epstein debacle, and I discovered so many other awful things. I knew in my heart, and sensed the desperation in the media. I sensed the desperation in the way they phrased and placed questions out there. I sensed their unholy hunger to convince, their desperation to exhort blue think. I could feel it. I don't know how to describe it to you, but when I watched them talk to Ramaswamy the other day, it was barely contained, thick in the air, there is ZERO objectivity, only a desire to poorly construct traps, and make veiled accusations, to tie you to an undesirable pier, to destroy you. They have seriously overplayed their hands. They are so so so so so so desperate and it's so obvious to anyone watching. It's like watching people who are clawing at the strings of life, desperate to hold on. They are afraid.
Sorry I was late lads, but I have been on your side since Nov 2020; and I am awake and alert now. No one is thinking for me. I watch the video and I make my own conclusions, I consider the position and think about how God would want me to deal. You can't deal with people who platform unrighteousness.
Thanks for sharing your story, it’s great to read!
It matches my experience quite a bit too. I leaned more Republican, but I definitely frequented all the places you did, and bought into a lot of it.
I actually thought during 2016 that Hillary Clinton would be the lesser evil over Trump, if you can believe that.
But like you, I saw the visceral hatred for Trump that just didn’t match his actions. During COVID, I saw Trump say one thing live on TV, and then saw the media completely make up that Trump said another thing by the evening news.
But the real eye opener was watching the election be stolen in 2020, and then being suspended from nearly every platform just for asking questions.
Once you see all the lies and manipulation, you can’t unsee it, but I’m grateful for that and grateful you’re here too!
Oh yeah, I went through like 4 different reddit accounts before I gave up and went to that clone that shutdown a while back, the open-source one that caved really hard in the end.
It was sad to watch the site owners and moderators just fold there.