Did you know that I used to be quite the right winger? I once voted for Bush. ...One time I gave a speech supporting gender stereotypes 😬

I got indoctrinated in right wing rhetoric for a variety of reasons, but in large part as a reaction to the intensity of the left wing rhetoric at the University that I was attending. I lost the faith after the 2010 mid terms when “my team” had won and got some fiscal reforms, they came out and declared victory! I was elated ...then I crunched the numbers and realized that these sweeping changes were in fact barely any change at all. I was duped by my own team.

In Chicago ~2015-2018 I worked in some intensely left wing offices. The open hatred for white men specifically that I encountered there was wild. If I hadn’t already left the political circus, that environment would have made me a right wing extremist.

These past few years, being bombarded by the red pill mania, and all the encouragement of “dunking” on the “libtards”, etc, again if I hadn’t already left this circus… or studied economics 😆, I would be busy becoming a left wing radical.

Both the lefties and the righties justify their hatred. They use different terms, but the sentiment is always the same. ‘They deserve it’. ‘They had it coming’. Etc. Lately it’s been the righties claiming that mockery is a good and effective tool for change. It is not. This behavior always leads to blow back, usually in the form of radicalizing those on the opposing team.

The only way to improve this madness isn’t for your team to win. The only way to improve this situation is to get up and leave and circus, and to encourage as many as you can to do the same. If humanity doesn’t learn how to leave the political circus we will be caught in a perpetual cycle of alternating flavors of hatred.