For me it wasn’t just getting a job, it was getting myself away from the social pressure and having a family that really changed my outlook.
It can’t be underestimated the effect social pressure has on your mindset. If there’s a constant active movement to ostracize non conforming thought among your peers, it’s hard to fight.
Social media makes this social pressure easier to enforce. It also makes it easier to avoid, though.
This mirrors my story. Extremely liberal household, living in Portland, surrounded by extremely liberal people, being fed extremely liberal news.
After voting for Obama twice, it was about a year into his second term when I actually started paying attention to politics and doing my own research.
Anyhow, I voted for Trump twice, changed my registration to Republican, lost friends (not by my choice), and my family casually mentions from time to time how "concerned" they are for me. Even as far as saying "we think you're getting your information from fake news".
For me, back in my 20's and same for my wife, we just weren't engaged in news or politics. There was no social media, but I don't know if that really would've mattered because I didn't care about that stuff. We voted for Bill (1st term only) because he played a sax on Arsenio Hall and we said "he's pretty cool, I'll vote for him" rather than the old stale white guy (Bush Sr).
For me it wasn’t just getting a job, it was getting myself away from the social pressure and having a family that really changed my outlook.
It can’t be underestimated the effect social pressure has on your mindset. If there’s a constant active movement to ostracize non conforming thought among your peers, it’s hard to fight.
Social media makes this social pressure easier to enforce. It also makes it easier to avoid, though.
This mirrors my story. Extremely liberal household, living in Portland, surrounded by extremely liberal people, being fed extremely liberal news.
After voting for Obama twice, it was about a year into his second term when I actually started paying attention to politics and doing my own research.
Anyhow, I voted for Trump twice, changed my registration to Republican, lost friends (not by my choice), and my family casually mentions from time to time how "concerned" they are for me. Even as far as saying "we think you're getting your information from fake news".
Amazing. I've wondered what it's like for people raised by liberals in the thought bubble.
For me, back in my 20's and same for my wife, we just weren't engaged in news or politics. There was no social media, but I don't know if that really would've mattered because I didn't care about that stuff. We voted for Bill (1st term only) because he played a sax on Arsenio Hall and we said "he's pretty cool, I'll vote for him" rather than the old stale white guy (Bush Sr).