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I'm betting most of us were much more lib/right-wing in the past, so let's retrace the steps of our political journeys to figure out what works best for getting people leftpilled (hexbear.net)

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I will share my own experience soon.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Growing up my parents were strict authoritarian religious liberals. They never questioned their beliefs, and I never had any framework for doing so either. Your typical "raised under a rock" type.

In college my roommate was a Texas Republican. I'm from New England. He had a lot of ideas I'd never heard before, but he had solid arguments to defend them. That was the first time I realized I only believed what I believed because everyone around me had always believed the same stuff.

A few years later I saw the zeitgeist movie, and that really opened things up for me.

Edit: also many years later I worked for Bernie's campaign, which really opened my eyes to just how truly corrupt the establishment Dems are