I know for me it was a combination of learning US history, always having leftist tendencies when I was a child, working blue collar jobs, and the final nail in the coffin was Occupy Wallstreet/Obama administration. The consistent thing across these experiences was how so-called liberals were often just as bad, if not worse, than conservatives. I understood, though, that the solution to liberalism isn’t to go right, but to go further left.
The lack of solidarity among Occupy protesters with working class people and the killing of Abdul al-Awlaki really pissed me off. Then I thought to myself “If liberals are like this now, what the fuck were they like in 1962, 1859, and 1775?”
I know for me it was a combination of learning US history, always having leftist tendencies when I was a child, working blue collar jobs, and the final nail in the coffin was Occupy Wallstreet/Obama administration. The consistent thing across these experiences was how so-called liberals were often just as bad, if not worse, than conservatives. I understood, though, that the solution to liberalism isn’t to go right, but to go further left.
The lack of solidarity among Occupy protesters with working class people and the killing of Abdul al-Awlaki really pissed me off. Then I thought to myself “If liberals are like this now, what the fuck were they like in 1962, 1859, and 1775?”