Those who had left leaning views who turned to right views, what made you switch?

[u/Zitpus]

I’ll start that I didn’t really focus on politics when I was younger. 2012 was the first year I voted in a presidential election and voted for Obama because I actually liked him as a President back then. During Obama’s second term, that was when all of this BS started to happen with BLM, political correctness starting to run wild, this was when the division in the U.S really started to happen.

When Trump was announced as the Republican candidate in 2016, I was going to vote for him, no matter what. Even if Bernie was going to be the Democratic nominee (my original choice if he was running and if Trump wasn’t running), I was still going to vote for Trump.The day after when Trump got elected, most of my Facebook newsfeed was a bunch of anti Trump posts as most of my friends lists consisted of former High School classmates of mine. During that time moving forward, that was when I started to wake up and realize that the left was the one that started all of this bullshit and they were the ones creating all of these problems. The brainwashing from social media was a key point in all of these. We all know how social media caters to the left and all you would see was “anti Trump this, anti Trump that, Social Justice this, Social Justice that”. I eventually deactivated my social media because it was getting ridiculous. As I began to fully realize, the media creates more unnecessary problematic issues in our society (especially fake news CNN), social media is a fake news propaganda platform, just because you voted for Trump, doesn’t mean you’re automatically deemed a “racist” and/or a “homophobe” or “sexist” like the liberal propaganda says you are and make sure you do your research on something before you believe it, unlike libtards who jump to conclusions on everything.

[u/kempff]

Uhm ... I grew up?

[u/Zitpus → u/kempff]

Me too. lol.

[u/[deleted]]

1. The blatant racism. I’m Asian, adopted into a White/mixed family. I’ve been told I was “White washed” because I speak better English than Korean. How is that not racist? America is my home. I grew up here, and when you’re surrounded by native speakers from an extremely young age, you begin to speak the way they do as well. Not ALL Asians HAVE to have a Ching Chong accent and know Mandarin/Cantonese to know our own culture, the fuck?That’s the shit I heard as a minority from the LEFT. And stop telling me I’m a victim because of my genes. I can live by my actions. Not everything is a White person’s fault.

2. BLM. Nothing wrong with the phrase, “black lives matter.” I have no issue with black people, never did. I believe they’re essential, like all other races to create a diverse environment. I cannot; however, agree with the actions of those who are associated with BLM. The organization has been nothing but a divisive tool used by the left to indoctrinate the Black community into thinking that the world is against them, and everyone wants to go back to owning slaves or lynching Black people. That’s just so far from the truth.

3. This pandemic. The left has a way of politicizing just about everything and anything, and I’m so sick of it. Leftists were screaming against the vaccine when Trump was still in office. Now that their side is in control, they force a vaccine down everyone’s throats and label anyone who disagrees or even thinks a bit differently from their ideologies a disgusting threat to society. So, yeah, it’s never been about the public’s health and safety for them. It’s about fulfilling their narrative.

4. The hypocrisy. I can go on for so long with this one. Their made up bullshit ideologies of how reverse racism doesn’t exist, Whites are responsible for Black Americans attacking Asians, Buzzfeed coming out with articles saying, “if you’re White, stop having kids” and being praised for it, forcing vaccines onto people but justifying abortions, denying science when it goes against their ideologies, etc. For EVERY one thing you call them out for, they have a thousand excuses for their thoughts and actions.

5. “ACAB.” Do I even need to explain for this one? How brain dead do you have to be to really think all cops are racist murderers? It’s so funny because these liberal celebrities have body guards and security with guns. And if anyone broke into a liberal’s home with the intent to harm them, these pussies would have 911 on speed dial.

It’s just a joke. The whole left is a joke on humanity.

[u/rodglennandy]

When I realized the left makes martyrs of themselves, by creating ideological cages of victim hood with the sole purpose of sensationalizing a non-issue to further their agenda. They’re so good at it in fact, that they’ve convinced themselves they have superior moral, ethics and practices. All of which could not be further from the truth.

[u/TheBluegrassBaron92]

The viciousness, mindlessness, and destructive nature of the resistance to President Trump, who in 2016 I was frightened to see elected and who in 2020 I eagerly and happily voted for.

[u/crimsonbub]

I turned 30, realised my life had veered in a different direction and I wanted different things, such as to be proud rather than ashamed of what I am, to say that I matter rather than be told I don't.

and as that happened and I opened my mind a bit, I started seeing with new eyes the true extent of those three letters SJW which have infected so broad across society. I brought a right-leaning book in Waterstones and the red-haired young woman at the checkout who had been chatty with the stranger in front of me said only "do you want the receipt" after giving me a disgusted look as she processed it.

[u/[deleted]]

Glad to see people on this thread are waking up to the propaganda the left sells. The right has its faults but at least they don’t OWN you like the left wants and needs. The only way the left survives is by making you dependent on them, otherwise known as SLAVERY. The inner cities are just the new slave plantations. The left likes abortion because it keeps the black population down. The left hates school choice because it means kids and parents will chose for themselves instead of being brainwashed. Big media is all Democrats and anyone can clearly see it now. This didn’t just start with Trump, it’s always been this way. Now that most of you are awake, go look at what the UN 2030 agenda is along with the World Economic Forums plans. Global Socialism is their goal and the Democrats are right there with them. Fight against it by informing your friends, family, colleagues, etc - it’s all BS!!!

[u/fernincornwall]

I grew up very progressive in inner city Philadelphia.

It was joining the military for me that started the conversion.

I needed a way to pay for my degree in Eastern mysticism or whatever (I really didn’t know what I wanted to do when I was 18) and the military offered a way to do that.

I had grown up seeing the military through the lens of films like Dr Strangelove (either psychotic maniacs like Jack D Ripper or buffoons like George C Scott) and Full Metal Jacket.

So I arrive at day one of boot camp and the CO does a welcome speech and the motherfucker starts quoting Socrates and talking about the “Warrior ethos” and why men of violence are necessary but must be controlled (your basic “what’s the difference between you guys- as men of violence- and a bunch of gangbangers on the streets?”

And that’s when the illusion started to shatter; these were INCREDIBLY impressive people! Not the brainwashed, unintelligent boobs I’d been brought up to believe existed in this world!

And that was the first crack in the facade of the progressive matrix (so to speak). If my assumptions about military folks were so off base- if the military was actually full of intelligent, reasonable, independent thinkers who did what they did because they’d thought about it.. what about my impressions of southern religious folks as dumb hicks?

Or Trump supporters?

Or “evil” corporate CEOs?

And from there the dominoes just started to fall one by one

[u/[deleted]]

Finding out my wife and I had to pay $10,000 worth of medical bills (with insurance) for having a child at the same hospital that people without jobs received the same service for free from state insurance. All the info is public on the state website. This was just the beginning. Next was my wife was fined the $600 or whatever for Obamacare even though she was on my insurance at the time, she didn’t register herself by the deadline. Now the whole culture. Anti white crap. I just want to grill and watch wheel of fortune with my family and all I see is the left wanting to destroy everything wholesome. And I supported Bernie in 2016 bc I come from a strong union background. Boy was I a moron. The Democratic Party of my boomer parents is not the one they think it is anymore.

[u/spoulson]

The left made me love Trump. They forced me to defend him because I knew their claims were wrong. Or sometimes I thought they were right until I researched and felt stupid for ever believing the left’s propaganda.

It’s still amazing to me anybody falls for these mind games. I once had higher regard for people’s critical thinking skills.

[u/whomi305]

I started looking away from the left with treyvon Martin. Seeing the left portray the "police are hunting black people" was the next step. And I would say the Mike Brown riots pushed me totally away.

All along these years, I saw friends and family turn on me for asking questions and having debates. They ignored the way I lived my life and ignored how I carried myself.......just questioning the lefts motives was too much. If I know you 20 years and my opinion on 1 social matter makes you change, somethings wrong with you, not me. Saw it time and time again.

[u/slayerclub]

When I realized surviving ain’t easy nor free

[u/[deleted]]

Well, I think it's more accurate to say the Democratic party walked away from me and I refused to go along with them off that insane cliff. But here's what drove me to the right since mid-2020.

1. BLM and excusing the riots

The entire concept of police violence disproportionately impacting blacks is false. My views are best summed up by this excellent podcast by Sam Harris. https://samharris.org/can-pull-back-brink/

Then excusing away the riots as if they were understandable & downplaying the violence, with the Portland “summer of love.” Everyone here knows the “mostly peaceful protest” nonsense. I found that despicable.

2. Lockdowns and school closures

As the fall of 2020 wore on and evidence mounted that schools weren't super spreaders, schools still remained closed in blue areas (esp cities), but were open since August in red states and -of course- private schools everywhere, making black and brown children 2-3X more likely to be closed out. I thought black lives mattered?! The hypocrisy, again despicable.

It's best to not to be a one-issue voter, but if you're going to pick an issue, free education for all is a darn good one. The Democrats are the party of closed schools.

3. Censorship

The White House working with big tech to censor misinformation?! This is a dystopian hell that no one should be advocating for. People calling for Target to stop carrying Abigail Shrier's book? (& briefly succeeding at having them pull it.) Awful.

I consistently refer to the left as “leftist,” they are no longer liberals. Free speech is a fundamental component of liberalism.

4. Racism

Major media outlets deciding to capitalize “Black people” but not “white people.” Discriminatory granting of federal funds to farmers for covid relief, the Smithsonian declaring that white culture includes things like punctuality, CRT & white fragility, etc.

5. Transgender activism & the war against women

Putting men in women's prisons, letting them compete in sports against women, allowing people to show their penis to young girls in the locker room at the spa, and attacking the mom who objected to that.

Erasing my identity as a human & reducing me to my reproductive organs by constantly referring to, “people with a cervix” or “menstruating people,” encouraging doctors to perform double mastectomies on confused teenage girls. I heard Abigail Shrier on the Joe Rogan podcast and bought her book – I highly recommend! It is flat out interesting to read, and I want to support her.

6. Vax mandates

What happened to, “my body my choice”?! Again, the hypocrisy! I actually made the choice to get a covid vaccine, but the idea of the government legally mandating my healthcare choices absolutely disgusts me.

I am ideologically consistent, and also pro-choice regarding abortion. I think abortion should be safe, legal, and accessible. But it doesn't impact anywhere near the quantity of people that vaccine mandates do, so I am willing to overlook this area where I differ from the Republican party.

[u/[deleted]]

Rampant media lies and manipulation in 2015 leading into the 2016 election.

[u/PaulDmitrios01]

I’m older, and to be honest, listening to Rush Limbaugh from about 1990 to present. Say what you will about Rush, he had great ability to point out when Lefty emperors wore no clothes. I had a Noam Chomsky phase in college after I got out of the Army, but that didn’t last longer than actually reading what he wrote. Economically, it was reading and listening to Thomas Sowell.

[u/HAAX_00]

Trump's speech at the human trafficking prevention event in February 2020

[u/[deleted]]

When I learned to think more than I feel.

[u/AtlantaBoyz]

I realized how hateful the left was

[u/Mvanwalks421]

Antifa in Seattle.

I caught a case from when I was using drugs. These liberal people treated me like the scum of the earth. 2 years probation. Right when I was graduated, CHAZ happened. Those same motherfuckers that shit on me we're being knighted by the media as heroes. I lived about a mile away from their occupation zone. Gunfire and screaming were not unusual to hear those nights.

Fucking hell. Rape, murder, destruction of property, racial segregation, occupying land by force, attacking journalists, all were noble deeds for a good cause. And I was the bad guy.

[u/[deleted]]

I grew up and became an independent adult.

[u/randyfloyd37]

I’m not right leaning, but I did walk away from the Dems. I am now independent.

What made me leave was their collective attitude towards health freedom. I reserve the right to decide what is injected into my family, and what treatments I give or dont give to them. No corporate shills or anyone else really will tell me what to do in this regard.

I am voting for candidates who respect this. I am now a one issue voter until this is resolved.

[u/MydnightDesign]

Bernie got robbed of the nomination, and the DNC emails were leaked.

[u/0rder__66]

I was democrat until I became a union Vice President for a large steel company around the time Obama was running for his unfortunate first term, on one hand the union acted as if Obama was some kind of savior, on the other hand they couldn’t stand the fact that he was half black, said they only supported his “white half” and the n-word was used daily by most of them, even the corporate reps let the n-word fly routinely.

That’s my first exposure to democrat racism and intolerance and provoked me to learn more about the democrat party, and it was all downhill from there the more I learned about them and their extreme history of racism.

[u/porcupinecowboy]

Several back-to-back shameless instances of media bias pushed me to right-leaning media.

1. Following virology research and the international community giving HCQ to everyone with Covid, including the virologists themselves, I thought Trump was late to the party saying he would secure 75million doses of something promising we don’t manufacture. When the immediate media reaction was to ridicule Trump, I realized the machine cared more about dunking on him than potentially saving lives, when we originally only had positive scientific information about it.

2. 20 days of silence on Tara Reade’s assault allegations against Biden, only to be broken by a single article about how we shouldn’t jump to “believe all women.” Juxtaposed to Kavanaugh. CNN ignored their own archival footage that supported the allegations.

3. The 180-degree whip lash from the media pushing severe lockdowns and demonizing minor instances of non-compliance to supporting massive widespread protests.

[u/CasualInput]

1st generation Filipino here…

I started off on the Obama train. Second term came around and my opinion swayed so heavily. For the first few years living in the US I wasn’t exactly in the the most pleasant neighborhood.

The BLM movement changed a lot of my “friends” after I moved away. They never were. Thinking about my childhood I was not a friend at all to alot of them, and their attitudes and jokes were less than good natured to me. A lot of them got hateful and I was later ostracized because my family could afford to move to a nicer part of the state.

Am I alluding correctly to what I’m trying to say? I got to see how two faced people were. Things started really happening during college. I picked a side then. And now I hate the white hate that’s being spouted out of their garbage mouths.

My wife is white, my daughters are half white. I will not tolerate people telling them they are terrible people because of the color of their skin and who their mother is.

Absolute #walkaway from that party ASAP