(Commented this on the stickied "red pill moment" thread, but thought I'd make my own post since its a little long. Hope it helps some in the Gen Z/college crowd realize there are others out there like you!)

I was pretty liberal until my sophomore year of high school (although the seed had been planted as I had grown up watching Bill O'Reilly every night and went to church every Sunday). My sophomore year, Trump beat Hillary and all throughout the election I saw the conservatives at my high school get bullied for supporting Trump by both peers and sadly misguided teachers. When Trump won I was filled with joy and even though I wasn't fully red pilled I could feel that something unbelievably historic had just occurred. When my high school refused show the inauguration to our class (as was customary for Obama's two inaugurations), I left school early and went home to watch it. It was then that I became a right leaning independent on the verge of being fully red pilled.

What finally pushed me over the edge?

Three things occurred:

1. My senior year of high school we had to write a critical/literary analysis paper on Ta Nehisi Coates' "Between the World and Me." My teacher (a liberal nutjob) loved me from day one, praised me in class, and always gave me great grades. However, upon reading BTWAM I realized how vile it truly was and reading the passage where Coates talks about 9/11 meaning nothing to him because he sees it as basically payback for how the police have wronged African Americans led me to write my paper debunking the intersectionality/Critical Race Theory that Coates relies on so heavily in the book. After turning the paper in, my teacher proceeded to act like she didn't even know who I was, gave me low C on the paper (which was clearly A+ material, many of my peers, including my brother who graduated from Carnegie Melon with an English degree, even agreed), and next to my sources (which included material by Ben Shapiro, PragerU and other conservative leaning outlets) she drew large question marks contesting the reliability of the opinions given. She ended basically shunning me for the rest of year, talking trash to other teachers about me behind my back, and yelled at one my friends who dare contest Coates' logic during class. Huge Red Pill moment #1.

2. The next year I attended college at an extremely liberal university (pronouns at the beginning of class and everything). One of my roommates was a LGBTQ, extremely liberal individual. Either he somehow found out I was a Trump supporter or was just a complete dick but he never spoke more than two words to me the entire semester, talked shit about me to other people, and avoided any social interaction with me and my other roommates for the entirety of the year. Seeing how out of touch, privileged, and brainwashed everyone else at this school seemed to be (even though the majority of them were whiny, trust-fund brats who couldn't give one shit about the world outside of their own little bubble) really made me ashamed of my generation and was my huge Red Pill moment #2.

3. When coronavirus hit I had to come home from college and was thrust back into the midwestern, conservative lifestyle I had grown up in. However, it was around this time that the race riots and anti-white campaign surrounding the George Floyd incident began happening. I stayed up all night multiple nights watching news coverage of it and finally began to realize how easily the left could destroy our country. The day before the Fourth of July I watched Trump's speech at Mount Rushmore and listened to "Battle Hymn of the Republic" before going to bed. This was my huge Red Pill moment #3 and I will be proudly voting for Trump in the first election I am eligible to vote in.

I have realized that my way of life is being threatened by the left. I am back at my extremely liberal university (though its mostly online because they are a bunch of loons) and am in one of the most liberal cities in America. Everyday I see the mark the left has left on not only the city/country but more importantly my generation. I am surrounded by people my age who hate everything I hold dear, the very foundations of America included. I am always just one liberal asshole's bullshit statement away from fully coming out as a die hard Republican. The only reason I remain undercover is the fact that I am scared it will impact my ability to be successful in my career. But the world better watch out, once I have established myself and the world is listening, I will no longer hide the true me!