When I participated in Occupy it became clear to me that the entire event was structured to deliberately instigate a violent conflict with the police. Instead of fighting them I just walked away and slowly found myself aligning more and more with conservative values over the next decade, until I eventually became part of the alt-right around 2015. Lots of people, even conservatives, aren't aware that "alt-right" was originally supposed to identify those of us who still considered ourselves liberal but felt the moral obligation to resist the current left wing politics. Then the media co-opted the term in about a week because that message was a little too spicy to allow into the public consciousness.

When I participated in Occupy it became clear to me that the entire event was structured to deliberately instigate a violent conflict with the police. Instead of fighting them I just wanlked away and slowly found myself aligning more and more with conservative values over the next decade, until I eventually became part of the alt-right around 2015. Lots of people, even conservatives, aren't aware that "alt-right" was originally supposed to identify those of us who still considered ourselves liberal but felt the moral obligation to resist the current left wing politics. Then the media co-opted the term in about a week because that message was a little too spicy to allow into the public consciousness.

When I participated in Occupy it became clear to me that the entire event was structured to deliberately instigate a violent conflict with the police. Instead of fighting them I just wanlked away and slowly found myself aligning more and more with conservative values over the next decade, until I eventually became part of the alt-right around 2015.