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?
My parents always listened to Rush Limbaugh when I was younger. I always enjoyed his show just because it was appealing to listen to someone rant all afternoon about politics and his skits/songs about Clinton were appealing. Much of that was superficial enjoyment vs redpill though.
Then I get to voting age and love President GW Bush but then John McCain comes along and I start questioning things a little bit...“THIS guy is who we chose to follow the great George W. Bush!?” Sarah Palin was hot though so again superficially I was ok with voting for McCain.
Then we have 8 years of Obama. 6 of which he dumped all over Bush. I absolutely despised his “leadership” but supported our political process. I couldn’t help but notice how polarized things started becoming over race. I wanted Romney to win. I prayed that Jeb! would come along to save the country.
Then emerges GEOTUS DONALD J. TRUMP. I couldn’t help but be drawn to his celebrity appeal (superficially) and was on the fence about him “There is no way he will beat Jeb! or Marco Rubio!” I thought...but I watched one of his airport hangar speeches, heard the comments about Mexico “not sending their best”, thought the goofy hats were a cool throwback to the 90’s and wanted him to stay in the race.
I decided to attend a speech of his in Sept 2015 and have been redpilled ever since after really taking what he was saying about saving our economy to heart. Redpilled now to the point of regretting ever having viewed Bush/McCain/Romney/Rubio as leaders to save the republic. I managed to shake DJT’s hand that day as well and have been fully redpilled to the point of remorse for ever trusting the establishment and I will never blindly trust any establishment politician ever again.