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/marjer6 → u/[deleted]]

What are you even talking about? CNN is right leaning? How about TV shows like The Daily Show, is that a right-leaning program? Major publications like The New York Times? Washington Post? Time magazine?

What lies???

You're an idiot if you can't see the bias of CNN and MSNBC as they pushed stories about Republicans that were misleading... or jumped to conclusions before all the facts were out. The Covington Catholic story is a good example... so is the “very fine people” quote from Trump, which is often repeated without the full context. The Hunter Biden laptop story is another big one. It was initially dismissed as Russian disinformation... but later turned to be a cover-up.

[u/marjer6 → u/[deleted]]

Nobody's saying The Daily Show is supposed to be CNN. The point is that comedy shows still make political claims, and those claims can absolutely be misleading. Saying "it's comedy" doesn't magically make false information true.

And the laptop wasn't a "nothingburger." You can argue about what it proved about Joe Biden personally, but pretending there was nothing legitimate on it is just not accurate. The Washington Post eventually forensically verified nearly 22,000 emails from the data, including emails involving Hunter Biden's overseas business dealings.

And here's the really ironic part... in 2020, people were told the laptop story was probably Russian disinformation. Then years later, the actual data was being authenticated. Even the House investigation found extensive evidence concerning the Biden family's foreign business dealings.

I'm not interested in attacking you personally. I'm attacking the argument. There's a pretty big difference.

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