I grew up in a Democrat household in the 90s/00s, because my father was a union electrician and they were told to vote blue. Back then, democrats pretended to care about American workers and it was the workers party.
My dad preached anti-illegal immigration and anti-China as long as I can remember. Everything he said was sound - because it’s the same shit Trump has campaigned on.
I was very progressive through the 00s. I was a teen, my closest relative was gay, all the cool/young teachers were obviously liberal, all the punk/emo kids were all progressive and all the girls I were into were lefties. In college I was smoking a ton of pot, worked a shitty job where I was undervalued and underpaid (though I never went full retarded with socialism/communism) and believed it was the conservative fat cats who were keeping the working class down in a down economy.
Six years ago I met my wife. She was a god-fearing country girl. Very conservative. Worked at a craft beer bar. I was a semi-hipster/mid-20s liberal trying to score. Things worked out for us, but I remained libertarian left while she was more center right.
We ended up moving out of state after a year or so to a blue city where I bought a house. It was about Nov/Dec 2015. NPR interviewed us on the street, asking us about the upcoming primaries. I talked about how great Bernie was. How bad Hillary was. How laughable Jeb and Trump were. When pressed about specifics, I came up pretty empty. I was embarrassed, so I went and did research on all the candidates positions. Immediately found out I’m actually very much a libertarian conservative with my values and ideal government, and I spent all these years thinking I was a liberal because of my libertarian values, because of the household I grew up in, because of my friends, because of my love for weed and alt rock.
The hardest part was admitting it to my wife. I don’t ever admit I’m wrong. She was more of a Jeb! loser, but she came around to Trump. Then I admitted it to my family. My mom joined the Trump train. My dad just stopped voting all together because of what the democrats have become. This’ll likely be his last election alive, so it’s a shame he wouldn’t just go vote Trump today - but that’s his call to make.
So anyhow, as soon as I found out I may be 100% Trump back in late 2015, I found The_Donald to get more info. I was one of the very first couple thousand subscribers on the sub and totally grew with it. An active user, on the sub constantly throughout the day.
Nowadays I’m too busy to be here all day/every day, but I still pop on once or twice daily to get that red pill fix.
I grew up in a Democrat household in the 90s/00s, because my father was a union electrician and they were told to vote blue. Back then, democrats pretended to care about American workers and it was the workers party.
My dad preached anti-illegal immigration and anti-China as long as I can remember. Everything he said was sound - because it’s the same shit Trump has campaigned on.
I was very progressive through the 00s. I was a teen, my closest relative was gay, all the cool/young teachers were obviously liberal, all the punk/emo kids were all progressive and all the girls I were into were lefties. In college I was smoking a ton of pot, worked a shitty job where I was undervalued and underpaid (though I never went full retarded with socialism/communism) and believed it was the conservative fat cats who were keeping the working class down in a down economy.
Six years ago I met my wife. She was a god-fearing country girl. Very conservative. Worked at a craft beer bar. I was a semi-hipster/mid-20s liberal trying to score. Things worked out for us, but I remained libertarian left while she was more center right.
We ended up moving out of state after a year or so to a blue city where I bought a house. It was about Nov/Dec 2015. NPR interviewed us on the street, asking us about the upcoming primaries. I talked about how great Bernie was. How bad Hillary was. How laughable Jeb and Trump were. When pressed about specifics, I came up pretty empty. I was embarrassed, so I went and did research on all the candidates positions. Immediately found out I’m actually very much a libertarian conservative with my values and ideal government, and I spent all these years thinking I was a liberal because of my libertarian values, because of the household I grew up in, because of my friends, because of my love for weed and alt rock.
The hardest part was admitting it to my wife. I don’t ever admit I’m wrong. She was more of a Jeb! loser, but she came around to Trump. Then I admitted it to my family. My mom joined the Trump train. My dad just stopped voting all together because of what the democrats have become. This’ll likely be his last election alive, so it’s a shame he wouldn’t just go vote Trump today - but that’s his call to make.
So anyhow, as soon as I found out I may be 100% Trump back in late 2015, I found The_Donald to get more info. I was one of the very first couple thousand subscribers on the sub and totally grew with it. An active user, on the sub constantly throughout the day.
Nowadays I’m too busy to be here all day/every day, but I still pop on once or twice daily to get that red pill fix.