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Is there an obvious personality difference between people who’ve just been left forever and people who started out on the right and moved left overtime? I mean anywhere for being on the right, former libertarians to former Groypers
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Anonymous 3d

I’ve sort of been all over the spectrum over the last decade, though I’ve sort of settled into a bull moose liberal. What I see is that people who were raised very conservative—especially religious, tend to retain the moral and purity policing, they just point it at different people and goals. As for myself, I dunno, but I’ve had people describe me as a fairly earnest, rational kind of guy. I do find myself increasingly unempathetic to the right, though. At this point support for trump is

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Anonymous 3d

what about people who thought they were right leaning because that’s what their parents said but they always had emphatic values and gradually learned which groups that aligned with most

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3d

A denial of reality. The numbers are made up, the cruelty is performative, and every announcement is a lie.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3d

Appreciate the in-depth response, thank you!

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