My political views have undergone significant changes over time, particularly since I was in my early twenties in the mid-aughts. In my late teens, I was somehow introduced to the writings of Michael Savage. For the uninitiated, Michal Savage was, and still is, basically MAGA several decades before MAGA existed. Extremely isolationist, anti-immigration, and anti-progressive, known primarily for his bigoted and controversial political stances. I even wrote cringey blog posts lambasting Nancy Pelosi, as if I actually knew what I was talking about.
I watched Fox News religiously. At the time, the big primetime shows were The O’Reilly Factor with Bill O’Reilly, Hannity & Colmes, and Greta Van Susteren. During this time in my life, I was glued to the TV during these shows.
It just goes to show how easily a young and impressionable mind can be completely brainwashed if it is insulated from diverse thought. Over the following decades, I somehow came to my senses and gradually crept to the left, at one point even identifying as a full-blow progressive. I was damn near socialist.
With a much more mature mind, I can now see how hateful and dishonest the MAGA machine truly is. There is LITERALLY nary a word that comes out of DJT and his activists’ mouths that is complete and utter bullshit. Just complete fantasy.
I have found my way back closer to the center these days. I still veer to the left, but I’m very aware that many of the ideals that extreme progressives hold are just nontenable and disassociated from the reality of what can actually get done.
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