For most of my life (38) i've considered myself a left leaning anarchist (i like the idea of worker cooperatives, but would never force my ideas on anyone else. I've always been anti establishment and anti gov.
But i gotta say i got red pilled hard in 2016. How? Just watching the fucking media and the way they treated Trump. I always knew the media lied but this was overdrive watching the swamp/establishment try their hardest to reject this outsider.
Watching the left buy up all the lies and bullshit just made my stomach churn. I can never consider myself left again.
Trump is the first leader i've wanted to follow.
That's my red pill story. What's yours?
It was the same for me I was already very cautious of media as I noticed everytime they wrote about something I was wel aware of or involved in they never got it quite right or outright lied.
And in some cases they obviously protected people with political history/influence.
Then Trump came and before he did anything they were slaughtering him and his opponent got the obvious protection.
However I'm still very careful misinformation online now as there is a lot of it even on our side.