My political views

Daily writing prompt

How have your political views changed over time?

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I’ll answer this because I’ve found myself talking about politics a lot recently (something I didn’t want to do with this site but I’ve felt compelled to due to the politicisation of everything.) As such I’ll probably take it down in the future when things go back to normal.

Despite what some people might think of me, I’m actually what you might call “a leftie” as I’m all about REAL inclusion where diversity is simply the end result of everyone getting along and realising their beliefs and identity is what gives them a unique perspective on life and not some gender studies class that they took just so they can have an authentic degree from college/university. I think intolerance is bad, meaning of course I don’t jive with the far right (hence why I attack the daily wire when I feel it’s appropriate) and obviously I don’t want society to revert to the mid twentieth century where only certain demographics could succeed in life. I’ve had these beliefs for as long as I can remember, however one thing that has changed is that I no longer make excuses for the far left as I’m quite frankly tired of doing so. I’m a queer biracial man who comes from a lower class family and has severe mental health issues and I don’t behave the way you’d expect someone with my political beliefs online would. I would rationalise the behaviour of breadtube and other far left individuals because they were on “my side” but stopped doing that about seven years ago at this point when I realised just how alone and miserable I was in this world for doing so, I alienated myself from everyone I knew to the point where I had to move interstate all because I prioritised being a “trans ally” (aka mindlessly supporting trans individuals) over my own wellbeing only to be labelled transphobic by these individuals when mental health services stepped in to intervene with their exploitation of my generosity. Obviously I’m not transphobic (my last two partners were trans women and both times my relationship with them didn’t end due to their trans status) that said it’s getting harder for me to tolerate the trans community due to how unhinged many of them are, or at least it would be if the bulk of these “trans activists” were in fact trans and not a bunch of cis men wearing wigs and tacky dresses to gain access to women’s spaces and straight women claiming to be “non binary” (you can tell they’re not because they refer to themselves as “non binary women” which is an oxymoron, it’s even more egregious when you know that being non binary requires you to have gender dysphoria for both genders which these people clearly don’t have.) That’s just the “issues” the far left have that I feel comfortable debunking as obviously I don’t have the authority to talk about the ways they’re making women and black people insufferable to everyone else.

So yeah, I’m a leftie who hates the left, my hatred is new but my politics are the same.