- Joined
- Oct 6, 2018
I'm not sure how smooth that change will be. There will be many lulz along the way watching the screeching and mental gymnastics, though. I think this current ideological strain of the left is going to prove much more virulent. It will shrink, and the DNC will sober up, but the religious fervour of these ideological lightbulb lickers is, I suspect, going to be immune from change for ten million Americans.
It's a religious cult, and is utterly immune to reasoning. I suppose many will evaporate from the ideology slowly for self-serving reasons, but many are so deeply brainwashed by the cult, I see no hope for them.
Somewhat similar conversion, I suppose, minus the little old lady.
I spent 50 years proudly considering myself a socialist, strongly leaning to anarchism. There were many things about the left I disagreed with, but basically glossed over in a hypocritical way I never would have with a right wing person.
IT was actually listening to Trump's rallies, realizing he basically just has "dad humour" and his policies are nothing unpalatable, seeing the vast misrepresentations in the media, the dehumanizing and hate-filled screeds of friends on social media, the endless hypocrisy from the left that made the "veil fall from my eyes", so to speak.
I always had some mixed beliefs, like anti-gun control, pro-universal health care, and many other things, but it was the attacks on Trump that altered my views from fairly radically left, to moderate right.
I can't imagine how many others have been affected this way.
