Supporting President Trump was my biggest regret; why I left the Republican Party

Anonymous

https://www.salon.com/2022/05/25/dont-care-about-kids--just-imaginary-children/

New York Magazine
New York Magazine

As a conservative libertarian and a former Republican I would like to share a story about how I accidentally "red-pilled" the whole high school I went to and almost the entire family I had (before that was cool). I've lost a few friends that staunchly supported Hillary, but many of the enabling Bernie Bros/Baristas had no problem with me; some of them likely voted for Trump too later in the years.

First I started watching Fox & Friends with my mother, stepfather, and very young brother. My stepfather and I started talking about immigration and stuff, and I felt like he "red-pilled" me on that. Even my mother (and one of her sisters) and almost my entire father's side started to agree with me even as though many of them didn't vote in the 2016 presidential election.

From high school to college, I actually used to say a lot of screwed-up things including racial slurs and dark humor to be apart of the ultra-'cool' crowd that most of the high school wasn't quite into; I was radicalized by dark-web websites and even today I am embarrassed that I even thought of saying and listening to those inappropriate things. I am ashamed that I did not educate myself on lynchings and systemic racism before.

Although post-COVID I have started to see all of the above become the norm. The manager of one of the programs that I am apart of, which is supposed to "help" adults with disabilities find a job, fired all of the job coaches that didn't support the bulls**t ideologies and agenda the program (with the BCBA and Job Coach-Lead) had in mind. Politics and religion are OK to discuss, as long as it fits 'their' heartless lobbyist agenda. Anything outside of it, is considered "radical". (Ironic considering they are radical themselves.)

It was not the same program as it was back in 2019 or even in 2020 (even when there were quite a few bad apples as job coaches it wasn't like that). The entire program is now run by radical-right scumbags who claim to "care" about God and Jesus Christ; many of the participants started to become more stressed out, job coaches always take off one social behavior participation point for an unintended flaw the client has (there are twelve points in the weekly system).

I have started to see a huge pattern. More and more people I have been around with have either openly voted for or "look/talk like" they voted for the Former Fool; even the minorities in Los Angeles for some odd reason. They push boundaries (even around their own children; I've seen my own parents and stepparents behave like this and make bulls**t excuses) and make a huge deal out of so many simple tasks. We still have neocons and PC union-teachers out there who believe "hell" and "damn" are swear words (when they are very rarely used in a vulgar sense), and QAnon idiots who think sexualities and cultures are actual ideologies; the truth is that 9/11 screwed up America's traditional culture. 1/6 especially f**ked up EVERYTHING.

We have no more real conservatives, just pro-Russia assholes. By the way my mother left my stepfather; he is the same guy that said to my brother that he'd rather go to Russia (a pro-genocide country that literally kills people that criticizes the country) than "communist" China. Many of us (especially in the White, Armenian, Christian-Arab communities) still have misinformed family members that still believe the bulls**t about Islam and Muslims, when Christians literally have the KKK and the FRC to deal with. Police shootings by country rank the US at #7 overall, and #1 as far as "developed" countries go.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/police-killings-by-country

I will vote for Ron DeSantis when he runs (unless he sells out to that GQP crowd too). I'm no friend of Joe Biden, but at this very moment, I would rather vote for Biden or Kamala Harris than Trump. It's really anyone BUT Trump for me right now.

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