DragonRyder420

I voted for Trump. Why? Between 2004 to 2016 I voted for Democrats in every presidential election. That's because I viewed the Democrat candidates as both more genuine in their concern for people, less corrupt than Republicans, and more likely to stand up for people's rights. In 2020, I didn't vote. That's because Joe Biden just wasn't a persuasive candidate and because the left lost its mind during the Trump presidency. For example, I had an old friend, someone I had known since I was about 10 years old, call me racist. That led me to question all of the 'progressive' causes that I had always been supportive of. But, in 2020, I also couldn't in good conscience vote for Trump. I found it hard to believe that most of what the media was saying about Trump was untrue. I always had a healthy suspicion of the media, but it was simply unfathomable that it had become 90% propaganda rather than the 30% or so that I assumed. Then, COVID hit. It was clear to me that health agencies and governments were making decisions on something other than what was effective and logical. Bureaucrats do that. They're morons. But that's why we have the press, or so I thought. Not only did the press not hold the government to account for its stupidity, it effectively became a propaganda mouthpiece. What's worse, there was suffocating censorship on social media and YouTube. The only thing that gave me relief was that Elon was seeing the same things that I was seeing, and had started to become more vocal on politics. I felt he was such an important voice. He spoke truth to power. He was doing what the media was supposed to be doing. But, even with that said, the trajectory of society and the world was looking very dark to me between 2020-2022. Everything changed when Elon bought X in 2022. I felt hope again. As long as there was free speech on one platform, there was a shot at reversing the lies and propaganda. Elon and X succeeded in that beyond my wildest expectations. Not only did Elon's actions reopen the Overton window, we found out that the government was actively strong arming social media companies to censor people. Everything that I feared was happening and felt too conspiratorial to be true, well, it turned out to be true. Things were actually worse than I had thought, and I thought they were pretty bad. When Elon restored free speech on X, it opened the door for other voices to be heard. Not only heard, but fearlessly amplified by Elon himself, despite reprisals from advertising companies and the U.S. government. So, when Trump started his campaign early this year, the narrative I received was very different. I saw every major negative narrative around Trump debunked, from the "Very fine people on both sides" comment, to the Steele Dossier, to January 6th. It was all bullsh*t and egregiously 'misreported.' It became clear to me that I had been suckered in the 2020 election. Not completely, but enough that I didn't vote. They had cast doubt in my mind, and that was all it took. I still wasn't a big fan of Trump for most of this year, but then came the long-form interviews from the last few months. I realized that not only were the narratives around Trump's words and actions wrong, but that I had totally gotten him wrong as a human being. He's actually a likable person that's capable of listening, not the bombastic twit that I thought he was. If all that wasn't enough, he's managed to surround himself with a number of people that I have great admiration for: Vivek, RFK, Vance, Tulsi, and of course Elon. I've never really been enthusiastic about any candidate before. It was always "six one, half-dozen the other'. Obama was the candidate I had the most positive view of, but even with him, I could see the corporate puppet strings. I am fully enthusiastic about the potential of a Trump presidency. There is actual real potential with the team that Trump has assembled. With that said, I'm not getting my hopes up yet. The federal government is a morass and nearly impervious to deep change. I think a Trump administration will be able to make surface-level, temporary changes, but there would have to be serious and sustained momentum for more multiple administrations to really set the federal government back on track. Beyond that, the immune response will be tremendous. The only way we might avoid that happening is if there is a crushing and overwhelming victory. But, one step at a time. GET OUT AND VOTE PEOPLE! As a final note, the reason I said nothing about Kamala in this post until now is because it's not necessary too. America has been on the wrong path for decades, it's just that it's become painfully clear now. Kamala would simply be a continuation of that trajectory.

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