I think the biggest changes like this I've seen are w/ people who have gotten like a new significant other, or someone who went through some really crappy times, and I guess were like, just looking for ANYTHING to latch onto.
Myself... I'm way more conservative now than when I already was years ago.
I don't really understand anyone, especially like, if you're 40 and under, becoming MORE conservative, unless maybe you've also gotten super rich or something.
I have a friend who went from voting for Ted Cruz in the 2016 primaries to being a super liberal who can't stand Republicans.The best timeline
My father went from being far left progressive to a conservative who is only voting Biden because of Trump.
Trans rights issues and pronouns are his reasoning, I'm not kidding. He is deathly afraid of calling someone the wrong pronoun and getting his life ruined and he seems to think that laws meant to protect trans people discriminate against him.
This is the result of right wing fearmongering about bullshit like cancel culture. As though one misgender means the end of your entire professional life.
This is the result of right wing fearmongering about bullshit like cancel culture. As though one misgender means the end of your entire professional life.
anarcho communist to christian nationalistHorseshoe theory. The radical fringes of what we consider the 2D political spectrum actually gain more in common with each other the farther away from the "center" they move, even though they're supposedly moving in opposite directions. Someone who is close to radicalization is fertile ground for fanaticism, and once you push them past the margin, it becomes difficult to pull out of the rabbit hole, no matter how you enter it.
How does shit like this happen?
you can talk to people about actual ideas and they'll like it. but then when it's labeled or associated with the side they don't like, they don't like the thing. happened with the aca.
people are fucking weird.
My own transformation at the age of 25. I pissed the years of my wasted youth down the drain as a neo-Nazi activist. (That wasn't what we in the "political soldier" faction of the National Front liked to call ourselves; we preferred the label "Third Positionists". But we all knew what we really meant.) I also rubbed shoulders with loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland and shook hands with "former" (wink) UFF and UVF men who I knew were killers.
And yet I went from that to being a campaigner in the Anti-Apartheid Movement.
So, what happened? Did I find Jesus, or something? No, fuck that. Instead, the unthinkable happened: I fell in love with a black girl at work. (Yes, even neo-Nazis have day jobs.) It was a shock like having a glass smashed in my face.
Falling in love with her wrenched my life around 180 degrees. I got educated. I dumped my shitty beliefs in the trash can where they belonged, renounced the movement, and cut off former friends and "comrades" like gangrenous limbs. I pulled up my roots and moved to a different city, because living a real-life Romeo and Juliet story in which you're a "race traitor" isn't likely to end happily. (My parents had my "old friends" knocking on their front door and asking if I'd left a forwarding address.)
The only relic I have left now from that earlier, shameful part of my life is a couple of tattoos (odalrune and wolf's hook, if you're interested). Plus the shaven head.
The only relic I have left now from that earlier, shameful part of my life is a couple of tattoos (odalrune and wolf's hook, if you're interested).
Nice story man, glad you were able to grow better as an individual!Thanks. I married her, the girl who changed my life, and although that part of the story might not exactly have had a happy ending (we separated after three years, divorced after five), I don't regret a single moment of what happened, only for what happened before we met. Part of me will always love her for that. (That's probably not something I'd confess to wifey #2, mind you...)
Unrelated to the topic, but i hate how Nordic Runes have been essentially co-opted by the far rightI think proto-Nazi occult cranks like the Thule Society were pulling that stunt as early as 1918. Seeing as how quite a few Waffen-SS divisional emblems were designed around runic symbols, they've been neo-Nazi chic since the end of WWII. Most people don't know the political significance of a runic badge or tattoo when they see one, but I agree, the futhark being hijacked by fascists is a bit like having your country's flag stolen by them.