I have been this way for honestly most of my entire life. It’s not a new thing. Just one of those “this is actually the first time I’m really talking about it” things.

I have a very pretentious half liberal half libertarian friend who brings up something anti-communist every single time I see them at some point in conversation, even just a passing little remark or something out of left field. He thinks he’s seeding his “correct view of things” for me and acting as a counterweight to my own political beliefs. It is annoying as hell and I’ve completely stopped talking about politics with him and have taken our pretty long friendship to an arms length now because of it. There’s no changing that, or anything else