First off, I don’t base my views on “what Americans are like” with what people post online. Just about everyone I know personally has just gone off the deep end it seems.

People I’ve known for decades who were “right of center” have now drifted to the far right. Where they used to support separation of church and state, small government, etc. they now want the government to tax the poor, establish a Christian ethnostate, and are openly talking about “the coming revolution”. Meanwhile, most everyone I’ve known who is leftist wants the government to disarm them, claims to be pro-LGBT but blindly supports any Muslim country and blindly hates Israel, and thinks Joe Biden is the “greatest president EVAR”.

Am I just in a weird bubble where 95% of the people in my life are politically and philosophically dipshits? Does anyone else experience this with people they actually know? I feel like I’m going crazy when I can be talking with a “leftist” about trans rights in Texas and then the very next conversation is about how wholesome they think the average Palestinian is in Gaza. Is there anyone else who’s at least left of center and recognizes that religious zealots in the Middle East want to kill you and shouldn’t be supported and religious zealots in YOUR OWN FUCKING COUNTRY want to kill you and you shouldn’t disarm yourself?

Just what the fuck is going on in this country? There’s so much disinformation and paid trolls that I don’t base these views off what’s online. I just run into the exact same lunacy with nearly everyone I’ve known my whole life.

  • darq
    64•1 year ago

    Meanwhile, most everyone I’ve known who is leftist wants the government to disarm them, claims to be pro-LGBT but blindly supports any Muslim country and blindly hates Israel, and thinks Joe Biden is the “greatest president EVAR”.

    I don’t think you know many leftists…

    • Rhynoplaz
      22•1 year ago

      It really sounds like everything you know about both sides was taught to you by the “other side”.

      I’m not fond of GOP policies at all, but I disagree with most all of what you claim leftists believe.

      Are you actually talking to people about their own beliefs or just listening to what other people are saying about them?

      • darq
        6•1 year ago

        Did you mean to respond to someone else?

        • Rhynoplaz
          9•1 year ago

          Yeah, the message is for OP. I must have had your comment highlighted when I replied.

          • darq
            3•1 year ago

            Ah okay, I figured that made more sense.

    • morgan423English
      12•1 year ago

      Yeah, I’m pretty far left and was thinking, none of these even sound close.