I've just accepted all of my hobbies and interests are either in the process of being completely subverted by Trump-hating left-wing lunatics or already were at this point. Well, maybe not guns yet but a certain youtuber documented in the guntuber thread is sure trying to change that too.
I can't go into any of the more creative sewing, textiles, or craft communities any more because it's wall-to-wall TDS sufferers. Hanging out with other artists? Forget it. I've also dropped virtually all of the bands and musicians I used to follow on social media, because I want to still be able to love their music without having to constantly face my disappointment at what a bunch of brainwashed, low-information retards they all are.
I started pulling away from pop culture in 2008, because even in those pre-Trump days, fan communities were quickly being taken over by a Mean Girl army of SJWs. I was still very much a lefty liberal then, and yet found it insane and intolerable. I remember watching the whole SJW thing suddenly explode in the spring of 2007 among Harry Potter fans--it made the jump from Tumblr to LiveJournal, then Dreamwidth was founded by some of the most rabid SJWs in that fandom (because LJ banned sexually-explicit underage fics and art--gotta have your imaginary kiddie porn!). After the final book came out, that entire crazy fandom blew up in a fit of self-righteous rage. I lost a bunch of friends in the following six months because they'd all lost their goddamned minds.
And now the entire political and cultural left in the US is even crazier and more vicious than the most batshit SJW Harry Potter fans were in 2007-08.
LIKE, WHAT THE FUCK.
After that, I gave up on fandom as a bad idea; anything I was remotely interested in was SJW-infected. So since then, I've gradually pulled away from pop culture entirely; when I dip my toes back in, all I usually see is a bunch of propaganda, and I retreat once again. To entertain myself in my spare time, I work on solitary art, craft, sewing and writing projects, DIY projects on my house, and volunteering for animal welfare orgs in capacities that do not involve much human contact (because they're all infected too). I don't even have a TV any more, and don't have Netflix or Hulu. I listen to a lot of carefully-selected podcasts and audiobooks as I work, and read a lot of older fiction and history, and shitpost here, and those voices of sanity help a lot.
And I still can't consider myself a conservative, but the left has become so insane, authoritarian, and destructive, I can't be part of it any more. So I'm politically homeless. But I'll emerge from my self-made, TDS-free Fortress of Solitude to vote for Trump, because four more years of him is significantly less horrifying a prospect than a Kamala Harris presidency.
