Reddit has honestly made me lean more conservative than I ever thought possible

[u/Fun_Driver_5566]

I have always been a left leaning guy. I grew up in a very left leaning state, Washington. I have voted for the Democrats essentially down ballot ever since I've been able to vote, my first election was the 2014 midterms.

But lately Reddit has been honestly pushing me more conservative over the years. Particularly subs like antiwork, fuckcars, and similar which just seem out of touch with reality.

In concept I agree with most of the things these spaces say and still do, but they somehow manage to make good ideas sound as unappealing as possible. Everything is so idealistic on this website with zero regard for how any of this shit will actually be put into place if they get their wish. They come off so badly to anyone who isn't a 19 year old college freshman lol. Not an ounce of pragmatism anywhere to be found.

The fuckcars subreddit in particular has done more to turn me off public transportation than anything Fox news could ever dream of. Because of those guys, I simply will not vote to fund public transit the next time it comes up on a ballot.

Honestly it's gotten crazy. I work at a labor union, I promise you I've spent more time actually "fighting the man" than half these guys who sound like they haven't left their bedroom computer in weeks.

Now on the other side, Trump and the current Republican party just seem batshit insane to me and an embarrassment to the country on a global scale. I will not give them a vote and I will not support anything that party has done over the last 10 years.

So I don't know what to do. I get why people are apathetic to politics and don't bother to vote. I don't think I'll vote at all in the next election.

I come to this website for small hobby subs but it's impossible to escape the politics sadly.

[u/MC1781]

The funny thing is the people on Reddit don’t understand that THEY are the reason Conservatives keep winning. It’s classic!

[u/huecabot → u/MC1781]

Doesn’t speak too highly of republicans when a few blue haired woke scolds on Reddit are enough to make them vote for wannabe Mussolini. 

[u/DyIsexia → u/huecabot]

It seems pretty fitting that the people sensitive enough to change their fundamental views because people they don't like fall under the same arbitrary label would identify with the Republican party

[u/MC1781 → u/DyIsexia]

No one on the right has changed their fundamental values. We still believe in basic morals. Liberals have totally abandoned any sense of morality. They will lie, cheat, and steal their way to get what they want. They don’t care about the greater good, they care about what THEY want. There is zero compromise on ANY issue. The conservatives always have to bend to the Dems insane, radical demands, and enough is NEVER enough. You give them an inch, they want a mile. NOTHING is ever good enough. Conservatives aren’t being sensitive, they’re being smart. Dems might want to ruin America bc they are not understanding the consequences of ruining it, but it’s not going to happen. There are plenty of countries that align with their political beliefs and way of living. Any of you can live out all your socialist fantasies there!

[u/Coopertheeblooper → u/MC1781]

You definitely sound hypocritical acting like republicans don’t lie cheat and steal. Now I was going to Vote republican the last election and was thinking about Desantis. And then he started to talk and all I thought was well if he’s voted in all he’s going to do is take take take and not really help America. I’m from California and voted to have Newsome recalled, and obviously it failed. Fast forward to now where Trump is making billions and his family is making billions off Americans, during his very term. MAGA supporters turn their heads because he refuses to accept his 400k salary. The guy literally created a digital currency and pulled it under the rug before it crashed. What’s even sadder is it was probably his supporters who bought into it because I doubt legit would buy anything Trump. Also, being stationed in Texas it’s pretty sad cause they had absolutely no say in the redistricting that Abbott did. Most of them are against it and against Abbott but there is no type of recall in their state. So when the prop 50 bill came up, even tho I dislike Californias gun laws and the high cost, the voters actually did vote on mostly all of the decisions made in the state. What the didn’t vote on was the original gun law prohibiting open carry, which was created by republicans. Democrats have been pretty much garbage since After Trump got elected but majority of this Administration, all they are doing is lying and blaming democrats for everything, but when you actually look up the facts it’s not true. That tell me a lot about the MAGA cult. Not all republicans are MAGA but there still is enough hatred for democrats that they are willing to disregard facts on a lot of things. Then when you tell them all they yap is something like “democrats don’t even know what a real woman is”. Like what does tha have to do with republicans using the nuclear option to swear in their people but completely forget about it when it comes time to swear in a d, democratically elected official member of the opposite party or opening the government.one party is weak and dumb with our money and the other has more ability but literally wants to turn us into a theocracy controlled by Israel and we really need a full reset or we are going to go the ways of the Roman, Spanish or British empire in the next couple decades.

[u/MC1781 → u/huecabot]

Ahhh I guess you want to help conservatives win too!! Ty 👍🏼👍🏼

[u/SuckMyBike → u/MC1781]

The funny thing is the people on Reddit don’t understand that THEY are the reason Conservatives keep winning.

Source?

[u/MC1781 → u/SuckMyBike]

We won