Super fascinated by lefties who use to be right-wing. What made you see things differently?

Also: change is hard, much respect 🌸
I was always a “liberal” as a child/YA. Then dated someone who was pretty emotionally abusive at a time where I was dealing with untreated chronic illness. I was also a heavy drug user. Totally lost. Turns out he was very conservative and slowly made me believe I was stupid
And therefore my political beliefs were ignorant and unrealistic. He was also SIGNIFICANTLY older. I came to see some things more his way. He even convinced me I wasn’t sick and it was all in my head. By the time we broke up I believed things like “women are treated the same” ...
And lefties were against free speech and too emotional. It wasn’t til I met someone who was just really kind to me who asked me why I believed those things and reinforced that I was actually capable and to trust myself and my own cognitive abilities that I started to research
About the things I care about. Now I’m even further left than I ever was before I met my ex, trust myself and have a way better, more thorough research routine.
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