Originally posted here by u/the_shit_I_say.

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Ive identified as liberal/progressive most of my adult life. Campaigned for Bernie in 2016. Yang in 2020.

I thought I was the only progressive minded person who didn’t abandon my values overnight in March 2020.

How did we go from a group of people rallied against big pharma (specifically Pfizer and J&J) into screaming “MISINFORMATION” at anything counterintuitive to their corporate narrative?

The party of workers rights to the party of forced vaccination as an employment condition?

The party of empathy to the party of Hermain Cain Award?

The party of racial equality to forcing POC to vaccinate against covid in a country where the Tuskegee Study took place, forcing more than half of black Americans out of public places?

The party of ‘eat the rich’ to standing with our hands in our pockets during the largest wealth transfer of our lifetimes... all because we’re afraid of being mistaken for Trump supporters?

The party of intellectual discourse and letting the best ideas win to censorship and arrogant talking points?

The party of “democracy dies in darkness” to raiding journalist’s homes?

The party who doesn’t trust billionaires but Gates and Soros bankrolling social narratives is fine.

The party known for a healthy distrust in religious/government institutions to treating government like a religious institution?

Remember my body my choice?

The list goes on forever. The progressive and institutional left have both completely lost the plot

I’m so tired of right wing/conspiracy subs making sense while so many of the best equipped people to fight this are completely detached from reality.

This is emboldening genuine right wing fascism. It’s terrifying.

Thank you all for staying the course. Thank you for letting me know I’m not alone.

I love you all. Try and wake up your neighbor.