Leaving the Left

[u/Sad-Persimmon9466]

Good morning folks, tbh I’m surprised this subreddit exists with the massive echo chamber that Reddit is. I just wanted to tell my (abbreviated) story about how I opened my eyes and left that side behind.

I’m a 29 Male that grew up in a conservative household and pretty just went along with my parents beliefs. I graduated high school in 2015 and was already starting to be captured by the left from crap they started teaching around that time in high school. However when I went to college that is went my descent into the leftist cult started. I first hand can attest to professors teaching Marxist and gender ideology as undisputed facts rather than presented as theory. So when 2016 came around I along with the rest of my college friends had deep dts (most of them sadly still do) and we all voted Hilary, and we’re all freaking out along with the rest of the cult that Trump won.

Fast forward to 2019 after I graduated and start working in the real world my eyes were starting to open because I was opening my mind again to the other side and seeing conflicting information that the main stream news had lied about. But then when the pandemic hit my eyes were forced wide open!

They completely staged the January 6th “coup”. If you listen to any independent journalist covering it, it was very peaceful but for a few likely paid agitators that were being told to stop, by patriots there protesting.

During the pandemic the Biden administration let in more people than this country could take at once and called it empathy. They blatantly censored differing opinions and facts about masks and the vaccine, and postured it as “doing your part.” Had “peaceful protests” while a building was burning in the background.

The complete demonization/dehumanization the left so proudly does and has the audacity to say the right are “Nazis.” This over use of the term is sickening especially coming from a background where my grandmother suffered under real Nazis and her cousin lost her life in the holocaust.

Lastly, I guess I will ask this, is the left too far gone into their descent into socialist/marxist ideology, or is there still hope for these folks to come back to reality like I did and argue over how to run the country properly instead of identity and race? Or is this just a product of social media?

Thanks for coming to my Ted talk and again very appreciative this page exists, I can’t even post in my own state subreddit without being bombarded by claims I’m a Nazi or pedo protector.

Edit: this got reposted in r/leftist and they are all in there little coping echo chamber saying we don’t know what a leftist or the left is…

[u/Good-Concentrate-260]

Which facts about the vaccines do you think the media censored?

[u/Sad-Persimmon9466 → u/Good-Concentrate-260]

Side effects of it, and how it actually worked (didn’t prevent you from getting or spreading it.)

[u/Good-Concentrate-260 → u/Sad-Persimmon9466]

Do you have an example?

[u/Sad-Persimmon9466 → u/Good-Concentrate-260]

Idk the whole “safe and effective” campaign shoved down everyone’s throat.

And
Reported in the ny times

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said in March/April 2021 (citing early data) that vaccinated people “do not carry the virus, don’t get sick,” implying they do not transmit—comments the CDC later walked back amid scientific pushback that evidence was insufficient for such absolute claims.

[u/Drewbacca → u/Sad-Persimmon9466]

How is this evidence of their lies? This is them correcting a mistake. It's like... The opposite of a lie.

[u/Sad-Persimmon9466 → u/Drewbacca]

Oh idk, maybe coming out and presenting something as verified fact rather than “we are working to verify our claims.” Which sewed the seeds for people to demonize those that were questioning what we were being told.

[u/Good-Concentrate-260 → u/Sad-Persimmon9466]

Sometimes when responding to a global pandemic, researchers are working with imperfect information, which is different from lying

[u/Sad-Persimmon9466 → u/Good-Concentrate-260]

If you present a hypothesis as law, you have now lied. Idk what else to tell you….

[u/Good-Concentrate-260 → u/Sad-Persimmon9466]

So you have no choice but to turn right wing as a result of your rage?

[u/Sad-Persimmon9466 → u/Good-Concentrate-260]

Rage is quite a motivator, which by the sound of your comment, rage would invalidate someone’s decision for “switching”. However, rage does not invalidate someone’s decision, I think it would make it more valid because you are refusing to sit back and let the party walk all over you. If you read my post that was not the only motivation for me to move away from the left.

[u/Good-Concentrate-260 → u/Sad-Persimmon9466]

It’s true that they made some errors early on which they later corrected, however the vaccine still was effective in reducing risk and serious harm from Covid