In high school I was actually extremely right-wing from ages 16-18. Then I became a leftist from ages 18-20 because I met a lot of assholes in college who happened to be conservatives and so I guess taking the opposite of their views was a way to piss them off. I then became strongly conservative again a little before I turned 21 and my views have only intensified since then.
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I'm not 'right wing' I'm just logical
TYT did it for me aswell. When that cunt spat on Alex Jones, sealed the deal. I've been spat on also. There's no turning back once you realize these people are a bunch narcissists and worse. And then there is the fake news, it is so bad, it really is mostly propaganda, and I don't appreciate being lied to and manipulated. I could go on but, I'm hungry.
Right wing left wing. All the same bird.
I’d say the first redpill I got though was at the age of 19 when I went to a music festival and met people engaged in truly extreme levels of drug abuse. And before that I thought that people should be allowed to consume as many drugs as they want no matter what kind and after that I realized a huge number of people are simply incapable of moderation and responsibility. For some reason I thought if you had no stigma against it that the worst people would do is just smoke weed every day and that extreme drug users were a tiny minority that practically didn’t exist. That music festival redpilled me a little though which started my road to giving conservative ideas more of a chance.
Yeah, it's the little things, I find, that send people down that rabbit hole. Once that clicks in, there's no going back, because facts...
Yeah I agree. It’s when you go out into the real world and see that what liberals tell you is going to work on a national scale is an absolute disaster even at a small, local scale. At least if you have common sense you will realize why this can’t become a widespread phenomenon or lifestyle. Other people get too swept away by the promise that they won’t need to take any responsibility for their actions and remain permanently in Peter Pan-like thinking.
Even when I was 8yo I started asking my dad why some people got money without working for it. Haven't changed since :)
I became right wing after reading the Bible at age ~8.
Downloaded Obama’s birth certificate from the White House website, Trump has always been right, he is the lion, he is the hero, the American King
21...legal for alcohol...that is your answer...
Why do you think legally obtaining alcohol made you conservative?
...being able to do adult things causes introspection, which leads to critical thinking, which leads to conservatism.
I'm not from the US but
Until age 25 or so didn't view myself as right/left or massively politcal
Started getting more into politics around 2015
End of 2015 started following Trump's campaign and quickly became a fan
Started supporting Brexit in 2016 and voted for it
Have voted Conservative or Brexit Party in every election since
Views have massively intensified over last 4 years, extremely Trumplican now
Are you a Marxist or do you genuinely believe the Tories are not left wing?
I believe in the lesser of 2 evils. I voted in 2017 after May's idiotic snap election to help keep Brexit alive, and Boris did fool me a bit last year, I thought he might actually be decent from a tax and business perspective and would get Brexit over the line. Doubt I will ever vote for them again after what's he done with the China virus
But from a social perspective they are as Marxist as they come. Homos in schools, Islam, mass immigration, etc.
Eh, I'm still of the belief that such labels are used to further isolate us into one camp or the other for easier manipulation.
I call bullshit, there's no such thing as a successful socialist country.
Please stop spreading the bullshit that Denmark is a socialist country. It is not. Denmark is a capitalist country. Denmark is as capitalist as the US.
This bullshit is an invention of the fake news media to trick people into believing that socialism is acceptable.
Strong safety net and welfare system does not make a country a socialist country.
Socialism is Venezuela and Zimbabwe.
Socialism is the government controlling the economy. Denmark is not socialist.
I have never been "right-wing". That term is a trap. I'm a classical conservative and have been since birth. I had my first argument with my lefty mom over politics when I was 11. She kept bringing this Marxist nonsense home with her that she was picking up from college. That was in 1971. By 1975, I started to think and plan for the day Marxists/Statist/Globalists took over the US from inside. What we are witnessing right now is just a major stage of a plan that was launched in 1985. Bill Gates is heavily involved. I've know this stuff was coming since I was in high school.
The main left wing idea I still believe in though is that I do have a strong environmentalist in me and want to preserve the sanctity of nature just as much as I want to preserve the culture and traditions of our country. I also have pretty strong views in favor of animal rights and welfare.
Ron Paul’s ideas and the full scale mean assault on him was my wake up call.
I grew up extremely liberal/left-wing. I was always extremely good in understanding economics though so I always understood liberal/left-wing politics as a self-sacrifice for the betterment of others. Eventually I realized the only people who were truly benefiting were wealthy elites and not the general public. In fact almost all left-wing/liberal policies can be attributed to the root cause of all of society's problems.
I tried for a really long-time to justify left-wing/liberal politics but once I saw the impact it was having on our society's culture, on relationships and just on how people treat others in society, I realized it needed to be stopped. It's a disease that is destroying humanity.
This is pretty much how I stopped being a leftist was seeing what leftist ideology has actually done to human relationships. They don’t believe they should have strings attached to anybody or to any social engagement they take part in and it creates a cold, detached dynamic empty of loyalty and true bonds. I remember one time having to go to a church with some of my relatives and noticing how much more respect people seemed to have for one another than they did at my college where everyone treated one another as disposable and like some kind of tool to gain social points.
As bad as the policies themselves are, the actual impact that leftist ideology has Jason human relationships and interactions I think has done the most damage of all. People don’t feel like they should have any responsibility for another person’s happiness and it is creating a detached dynamic that makes all of our lives much less fulfilling than before.
Wow, this is 100% spot on and exactly the same conclusion I came to. It is for precisely the reasons you described that I became right-wing. I just skipped over the details you went into because I didn't think most people actually understood this and that I'd be speaking gibberish to most people.
The fact you were able to come to the exact same conclusions as myself regarding liberals/left-wing is a great sign. Perhaps our society can fix itself given enough time after all.
2016
My parents and the rest of my family are conservative but I stayed out of politics while I was in high school. Everyone I met in college was extremely liberal. A guy I dated in 2007 took me to an Obama rally and I was crucified by my family and they explained why I should never vote Democrat. I didn’t vote in 2008 and have always voted Republican since then. I was called a racist bigot by liberal “friends” until I wrote them all off and started dating my now husband who was in the Army and had all conservative friends. I still have a lot of Democrat friends and I just refuse to talk politics with them. Just yesterday a black friend I’ve known for 20 years asked me about why I follow Candace Owens on Instagram. I didn’t want to get into it because I knew where the conversation would go. Anyway I guess my point is, for a lot of people, the people you’re around heavily influence and reinforce your beliefs.
I see “right-wing” as fundamentally meaning that you want to preserve the culture and traditions of your country. Is that not what Trump is doing?
Right-wing is typically defined in Western culture as authoritarian and racist, which is why the MSM uses it all the time, while ignoring that Left-wing is equally authoritarian and racist.
I prefer to think of myself as an American Constitutionalist which encompasses logic, rule of law, fairness and most of all FREEDOM.
I don’t think I’m just going by whatever I want. This does seem to be a fairly popular idea of what it means.
Well, the liberal media of course is going to try and change the definition to something dripping with their own bias. I think it’s important to not let them own the narrative on our ideas.
In the most unbiased way, I’d say left wingers want social change while right wingers try to preserve tradition. I think if you were to ask both sides if that suits them well, then they would agree even if they may disagree that the opposite definition entails what the opposite side believes.