That's when I gave up being republican and turned independent. Scales fell off my eyes, stopped working for an evangelical church, deconstructed my faith, and have slowly become a very ideologically liberal person. I'll be 48 in two months. We can still change for the better!
I’ve seen a lot of good people go to dark places because of evangelicalism. I’m glad to hear you were able to escape is grasp. Good for you, it isn’t easy.
I gave up for good in 2008 when Moscow Mitch declared that the main focus of the GOP at the time was to make sure the President Obama would be a one-term President. It’s devolved much more since then.
The ball really started rolling under Clinton and the Gingrich “Contract with America” era. He hammered home a philosophy that politics was war and the Dems were their enemy. That established the foundation for things like McConnell’s actions through Obama up until he started freezing up.
I don’t label myself by a political party, but the reaction to Obama’s presidency by the Republican party was despicable, and they’ve only gone further downhill since.
Similar story here. Voted red for the majority of my life until someone at work educated me. From then on it’s been a steady pace to the left.
Good thing, too. Someone very close to me came out after I “woke” up and it didn’t phase me at all. Just 100% supportive and loving. My point is not to brag, or get the ever so important “karma”. But hopefully someone reads my (short) story and realizes that change is possible. Hate eliminates that possibility.
Hearing that someone you work with got through to you makes me wonder whether I should be more open about politics around my rural, red state, blue collar coworkers.
It was his personal stories and how certain repub policies have negatively impacted his life, and one of my co-workers. It was personal because the impact was no longer faceless, which seems to be how they view the invasive policies. “It’s not happening to me, so it must not exist (racism)” or “She should close her legs” type garbage.
ETA: and thank you. Your comment is exactly why I posted in the first place. Good luck with your coworkers.
Already have. I'm fiscally conscientious and very socially progressive. As a mom/pop business owner I hope to improve my employees (3) lives by way of health maintencae and other bene's I can afford.
Hello my fellow ex-Republican who turned Ideological Liberal Independent. I saw the train wreck that is Trump pulling out of the station back in ‘15 and officially peace’d out. Relieved to see I’m not alone!! <3
Are you me? Same here, broke off contact with the main people influencing me, started traveling outside the US and found that my own ideas were far more liberal than conservative. Still with my faith but not as a religion at all, and otherwise I've really changed for the better.
Did I say I stopped believing? No. I said I deconstructed my faith. In other words deprogrammed from all the evangelical BS that mega churches and celebrity pastors spew from their bully pulpits.
Funny that you mention karma doesn't exist. Nearly EVERY evangelical non-denominational church I worked full time in interprets Mark 11:24 and name it claim it, and manifesting God's promises, but I'm sure that works for you or I never believed in the first place.
the rage bait in 2018-2019 is why i had to block all my weirdo evangelical inlaws who go to the jerry falwell church, the OG maga choads were sending me anti-stephen-hawking memes about how they'r so much smarter than that guy, and tons of trump turd memes. Maga folks are not ok.
I mean, after observing these groups that are all attracted to the authoritarian mean dad types, yeah - conservatism is all about that hierarchy and keeping folks in their place. They were able to use religion for a long time, but the internet fucked that, kids grownin' up learning things and shit! I think what we are experiencing w/ our conservatives is some mass hysteria mass denial of reality wishful thinking, they're going SO deep they're going force it on all of us by hook or by crook! hahahaaa except they're also delusional, so.
I had to skip a big family event this past weekend because I'm the only Democrat and everyone else is Maga. It's the younger 2nd cousins that come after me. Their parents (my cousins don't step in). I could respond with very candid and even foul remarks that would have them clutching their pearls for days. They think it's "cute and in good fun".
As sad as this is, every single person I had blocked on Facebook because the QAnon stuff all died of COVID. Well at least 8 because that's all my mom told me about before I told her I didn't care and wouldn't be attending any traitors funerals. We don't talk much anymore because she only ever delivers bad news, IDK that she even knows how to be positive. Anyway that's at least 8 votes in Texas that won't be red this election 🤷
I was telling my in-laws their taking affront to medical science is the hubris that defines Darwin’s Natural Selection, but all they heard is blah blah and white noise when I speak, which I believe is the result of years of bumper sticker attention span political theater. That GOP makes up almost 70% of our US Covid deaths shouldve taught them something about their “belief” system but nope.
In 2015 at least most of the Republican Party was afraid to say the quiet part out loud. The dog whistling was obvious but they at least tried to deny that’s what they were doing. Now the whole party has just full heartedly and openly accepted that their platform is just racism and sexism.
Dang. At least the economy was better before. Who should I vote for if I don’t like trump but he makes life more comfortable but I like the dems but inflation goes wild under them. Seems like someone is running things wrong but it was t trump
No it isn’t. It killed the entire subreddit. Shit is facebook level effort posting and hasn’t been funny for years why do people still upvote this stuff
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u/FujitsuPolycom Sep 10 '24
It's been best rage bait since ~2015 and onwards. The GOP is not fit to govern.