slowly, then all at once
I always had some ambient level of disgust with stuff like war, Black Friday, forcing people to work on holidays, and this performative civility with the republicans who allegedly are the worst people ever but we need to be polite. Then I read The Jungle in middle school, then 20 years later I watched as very little changed after handing the country over to a senile casino owner. Turns out the meat grinder is the problem and not which person is turning the crank. McCain’s funeral and the different responses from libs and you guys finally pushed me over the edge.
I was radicalized by watching Renegade Cut film analysis. No seriously, him and a few other channels like his. I came to the realization that the people that had the best analysis of popular media were a bunch of anarchists and communists and one day it clicked and I was like “oh shit I’ve always been a commie, it all makes sense now”.
It’s remarkable to see how close this was to my own experience.
I even had a stint in Korea, just like this guy, although mine was much longer. I wish I could say that living in Korea automatically radicalized people, but some people I’ve known who have since come back to the USA are still libs despite being unemployed for years and losing the amazing universal health care they had in SK.
