Did any of you use to be left wing, and became right wing later on?

[Kung Pow]

When I was a teenager, I watched this one youtuber atheist college teacher that kept saying that we need to research and be more knowledgeable about stuff, he was the kinda of guy that wanted to form mobs against people he didn't like with his faggot friends, but lo and behold, I did exactly that with one of his victims and I found him to be full of shit.

There is also the fact that overtime I realized that the left leans towards oppressive regimes and lifestyles. The hippie LGBT+ junkie types say they want freedom, but don't realize that too much freedom without some moral wall can turn them into slaves of addictions like sex and drugs or even lead to criminality that will probably either send them to prison or make them oppressed by their own fear of being caught, while the more traditional approach to life has a more stable and safer kind of freedom in comparison. This freedom isn't as big in the beginning compared to the lefty one, but overtime the lack of those problems amounts to more freedom overall in a lifetime.

I know that some of those problems aren't exclusive leftwing, but chances are, they are more likely in that group.

 

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When I was in high school, I got into progressivism because I was raised around too many Republicans and neocons. I thought drugs were good, foreign wars were bullshit, gay marriage should be legal, women and men should be equal, and abortion legal and easy to access for everyone. Then I realized in college that progressives were fake about it and would inevitably fuck up, so we needed real, full on communism. I would often read the World Socialist Website, a Trotsykist outlet which split from the mainstream Trotsykists (i.e. the ones who became neocons), and I still honestly think the WSWS has a very genuine leftist perspective you won't get from The Guardian or MSM junk.

But then I started realizing that leftism is all fake and bullshit. Like why should everyone be equal when that meant the same 80 IQ CRISIS KANG hicks or gang members would be equal to actually smart people? And then the BLM riots started (Ferguson and Baltimore) and all the commie outlets praised them as "expressions of the oppressed proletariat," which I tried to get behind but slowly started realizing the logic was pretzel tier. Plus they defended Roman Polanski which was just fucking weird to me. So I had to quit communism because it didn't make sense.

And then 2016 hit where leftists everywhere believed we were at imminent risk of a fascist takeover because journos cherrypicked some silly Trump quotes and I thought it was the most whack insane shit ever. Then with the daily insanities of troons and insane feminists, I came to slowly realize that maybe the same social conservatives I thought were stupid growing up had a point about some of those things. I realized that abolishing capitalism because sometimes capitalism sucks is the peak of insanity, since 1950s capitalism brought the greatest prosperity in history. Hell, I even realized the segregationists might have had a point too (Malcolm X and Marcus Garvey should be redpills for any white leftist who opposes segregation). So I'd say I'm like an old school elitist Democrat from the 1950s--capitalism but some welfare state stuff, politics should be gatekept, keep other races out of my neighborhood, strong restrictions on immigration, deviant sexuality/sexuality in general and drug use should be kept strictly within the bedroom and not a source of pride.

When I was in high school I was a few good pushes away from evangelizing Das Kaptial. In university, I meet "real" communists and made one of the few smart things I've done by getting the hell away from that ideology. After dropping out of university and working with the very people that my "privilege" harms by just existing has pushed me father to a center right political position.

lol that happened to me too. I tried linking up with a commie group at my college who were associated with the same group Kshama Sawant (commie Seattle politician) is a member of. I didn't even stay the whole time since they were too fucking weird.

 

[GumballFapper]

The absolute opposite in fact

In 2013 or so I got into the "feminist gets epically triggered" rabbithole and then came the chaos of 2016 and spewing "ironic" alt-right crap was the cool thing to do™ on the internet back then. It was only supposed to be for the lulz and epic trolling, in fact one of the games I remember was to make up bullshit, and if the mass media picked up on it you would laugh at them for falling for it.

But then I watched as the le ironic jokes turned into actual hatred. Da joos this da joos that, we should start the race war and other bullcrap I didn't believe in and couldn't laugh at. My sympathy waned year by year until 2020, when I saw the guys who used to call the left snowflakes for crying after the results of the 2016 elections have an absolute meltdown over their orange god king retard losing and coping very poorly over it.

Then came covid and I couldn't stop laughing at retards who threw a tantrum over something trivial like wearing a mask. These are the people who portray themselves as YesChad.png and their opponents as soyboys and snowflakes? These bunch are even more pathetic! Watching /pol/ retards having a meltdown is a lot more funnier for me than triggered feminists, I can tell you that. Maybe it's because they like to portray themselves as the tough guys, so them having a meltdown would make them twice as pathetic.

Apparently my story isn't unique, IIRC some breadtubers like Adam Something also were pulled in with the premise of epic trolling but then quit after it was not funny anymore, but they decided to go far left and become unironic commies who quote Karl Marx for some reason. I like to think of myself as a liberal (center-left). The main thing I disagree with with the left is the tranny worship. Trannies are freaks and should not be allowed near children and they shouldn't shove their crap down people's throats. They should only be tolerated in 18+ spaces. I also partially disagree with the white guilt mentality mainly because I believe the children should not atone for the sins of their fathers

Unfortunately 70% of modern kiwifarms users are /pol/ morons, but I still try to be unphased by that and just laugh at lolcows.

 

[Niggernerd]

I was liberal bordering on praising communism until I hit 18 then realized it's a retarded ideology. I lean right but I still won't register to vote because both parties are faggots who won't send troons to newly built insane asylums.

 

[Male Idiot]

I was worse. I was a fence sitter when I was a kid. Luckily I did not go as far as a beanie hat.

 

[FamicomGorby]

Yeah when I was in high school, right around the time of Treyvon Martin and sheeeeit. I even wanted Obama in the 2012 election, "shudder".

I'm not sure what the turning point was. Maybe I just started thinking through some of the left wing shit I was hearing, maybe I just started getting tired of the racial bullshit. But over the course of high school I went from being a commie to knowing commies should be thrown out of the nearest helicopter door.

 

[RMQualtrough]

I have never had the narcissist victim mentality required to be a leftist. I don't expect the government to just give me things I didn't earn. It'd be nice if they did but I wouldn't expect it... I'm not any more special than anyone else...

To be a leftist you have to feel entitled to things you aren't worthy of. Like fat bitches complaining hot men don't want them.

 

[Peter Griffin's Right Nut]

Hardcore indoctrinated communist believer to the fullest extent, full rationalizer, would absolutely dig Destiny-style and defend everything. Guns and property rights turned me around, I couldn't reconcile these tenets of liberty, and considering Solow's model of viewing economics instead of Marx's, it's just impossible to keep living in that fake reality. Trying to avoid the victim-mentality of having been involved with them, it's retarded as fuck but actual professionals equate this to religious trauma so take that as you will.

 

[thediad]

I wouldn't say I've become right wing but I definitely left the left. I suppose to the left that makes me an alt right Nazi booger flicking puppy kicker but fuck them. They let the inmates take over the asylum.

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

I was full blown leftie in college a long time ago. Not even a centrist, but a full on activist. Attended plenty of protests in my day. Hell, I even started some of them. What red pilled me? I got involved, maybe too involved with some of these activist organizations. Then I started asking too many questions they didn't like. Something didn't smell right with those groups and I got out of it. I never really got invested into politics after that. Then culture war stuff dragged me back in and led me to the Farms.

If you have leftist friends or family, don't let them go to protests. Someone ALWAYS fucks with the cops. There's ALWAYS some little faggot who thinks he's Mexican Joker and tries to do something stupid. In my day, we beat the shit out of those kids and handed them over to the cops and then they took their turn beating them. You can't get away with that now though.

 

[Jack Noir]

I was never really right-wing, but I ended up going from lefty to centrist after I grew up. Back then, I was willing to stand up and give full support to leftist leaning groups if it meant "making the world better", I would even argue about it with some randos.
What made me change? Both sides are batshit crazy, they both just keep screeching and blame each other for every single bad thing that happens in society, plus, I don't really care about politics anymore, it's bullshit and both sides are equally stupid.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I think I've always been around centrist, but I used to be somewhat left-leaning.

Seems I was there for a while: thinking that "left-leaning" was "enlightened" (as centrist). By the time of "GamerGate", I was repelled away from "left-leaning" as endless toxic and anti-human hot takes were dumped out by SJWs, and the left became more and more cult-y. "Exotification" this, "cultural appropriation" that, "microaggressions" this, "objectification" that. And this was before that whole "transgender" craze really took off. "Social justice" went from "maybe progress" to being a mad cult.

I could see that following the path of "social justice" sincerely leads to getting backed into a no-fun-allowed corner of misery.

 

[Kromir]

Wasn't dumb enough to get suckered in either direction, Instead I went Libertarian, The one position with any sense

 

[The Lawgiver]

The left/right wing dichotomy is a fucking lie and the more I get fucked over by both sides in the same way the more I understand how fake it all is. Parroting the same shit about both sides with slightly different buzzwords, trying to shovel each of history's dictators entirely and solely into the slot of the "other team", it's vapid garbage. Get some fucking actual shit done and don't let yourself be controlled by disingenuous fucks trying to purity test you. I'm at the point I can't even fucking apply politics labels to myself and just kinda laugh or get visibly pissed when people claim I'm some either with their team or some kind of secret political enemy thats gonna kill them all by voting the wrong side in. Their claims about me turn on a fucking dime over the smallest of infractions, how the fuck can't I find that kinda funny?

We honestly need more people thinking about shit other than politics team clout, could probably solve a lot of issues in the world. Even if it didn't it'd make the shit we're dealing with now a lot less painful. Not a new take I know but holy fucking shit. I can't even consider myself "centrist" because that shit's now got it's own purity spiral shit too. It's all fake and gay as hell.