Anonymous OP 3w

Same thing happened to me. Most of these people are either horribly undereducated (not necessarily their fault) or they’d rather just stick to what they know instead of admitting when things go way too far. Really hope some more of them break free

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Anonymous #1 3w

I like to say it’s operating with high schooler level understanding of politics “If they don’t want “X” thing to happen then just don’t allow it to happen :)”. I feel so shitty about what I used to believe and say but it helps to know I’m not alone.

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Anonymous OP 3w

Tbh I was the same way but far left. I was so brainwashed by the lie that the democrats in power are going to save us that I became a self fulfilled victim full of hatred for the world around me which made me miserable and caused me to hurt people. But in my mind I was doing my part to "fight back" but I didn't realize I was fighting an illusion placed to distract me from the real issue. I hate that my fear was weaponized against me.

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Anonymous #2 3w

Mainline democrats are incompetent which is still better than republicans being incompetent and morally inept. Nobody can convince me that the only way forward isn’t demolishing the two party system.

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Anonymous OP 3w

Even if republicans are generally more immoral, that doesn't mean most mainline democrats are morally inept. I used frequently reinforce other's in attacking and insulting republicans under the premise that they deserve it because they are immoral (which they generally are), but doing this made me just as immoral as them and it took me years to confront. I used to tell bigots to k*ll themselves which is something I'm not proud of despite how concerningly common that behavior is among the left.

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Anonymous OP 3w

Morality is subjective. It means something different to everyone. It's important to understand that even though it seems immoral to people who are marginalized and the ones who advocate for us, all of the harm perpetuated by the right is in fact done on while citing morality. They literally believe queerness is immoral. Not because they are evil but because they genuinely think we are evil.

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Anonymous OP 3w

And as you can imagine, me refusing to see my perceived "opposition" and throwing legitimately evil projections on to them did not help our case at all. In fact it makes it worse. Looking back now I see just as much evil on the left as there is I'm the right, but nobody wants to admit because then we failed at the one thing we claimed to uphold. Pretending like we aren't failing doesn't make us fail any less.

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Anonymous #2 3w

*on

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Anonymous #2 3w

Oops that's a critical typo. *doesn't mean most mainline democrats are NOT morally inept too.

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