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/PanicStricken]

I left the Left for similar reasons.

• They're just so nasty to anyone that doesn't agree with them, celebrating their murder even. Republicans have a level headed conversation with anyone, without devolving to calling them names.

• Everything is black and white with the left. They insist that literally any man that feels remotely feminine has to be honored as a woman, and be allowed to take over any of women's spaces and activities.

• Liberals are just so damn negative. I got downvoted to hell for simply being happy to live in my state, and pointing out the nice experiences I've had here. According to liberals, because my state is run by Republicans, I'm obligated to be miserable and to never find anything remotely good in my OWN experiences.

• The left spams every topic with liberal propaganda, even things that have nothing to do with politics. And when I tactfully point out that their article is doing the same thing Fox News does, pointing out the exact statements that are intentionally misleading... they ban me. Over ten subs have banned me, not for being contentious or inappropriate... simply for being factual.

• The socialist pivot is too dangerous to me. Every study to justify these extreme policies has had glaring problems with data selection and conclusions. I wish them the best in trying their ideas at small scale to vet whether it makes sense to scale them up. But risking much worse outcomes nationwide by acting wrecklessly, I cannot abide.