[Fantasywriter]

Ten reasons, and never touched on the single biggest reason I ceased being a liberal. [For me it was a multi-step process. I didn’t become a conservative the day I stopped being a liberal. That took a while. It was a huge, titanic shift, after all.]

Anyway, I chucked liberalism when I realized the extent and frequency with which they outright lie. Honesty & integrity have always mattered to me. When I was a liberal, I was an honest liberal. Slowly but surely, I noticed I was in an increasing minority. The mainstream liberals all around me lied relentlessly, without shame, and often seemingly without any self-awareness of the deceit. I became very depressed when I realized I belonged to a political ideology that had institutionalized lying/dishonesty—and indeed, which could not exist in the absence of wholesale, fundamental deceit.

It took a while to get from there to here. But as I said, it was the realization symbiotic relationship between liberalism and dishonesty that began the seismic shift. I guess those of us who have converted each have an individual story to tell.

[dhs12345]

Spot on. My story too.

What bothers me is that so many people still believe the lies. And that is the major flaw with the Democrat party.

[alrea]

Anyway, I chucked liberalism when I realized the extent and frequency with which they outright lie. Honesty & integrity have always mattered to me. When I was a liberal, I was an honest liberal. Slowly but surely, I noticed I was in an increasing minority. The mainstream liberals all around me lied relentlessly, without shame, and often seemingly without any self-awareness of the deceit. I became very depressed when I realized I belonged to a political ideology that had institutionalized lying/dishonesty—and indeed, which could not exist in the absence of wholesale, fundamental deceit. It took a while to get from there to here. But as I said, it was the realization symbiotic relationship between liberalism and dishonesty that began the seismic shift. I guess those of us who have converted each have an individual story to tell.

seismic bump & thanks

[Fred Hayek]

I was in the same boat. I was a Scoop Jackson Democrat in my younger days. That due in part because of the Cold War. I was also pro Second Amendment as well. The change started when George McGovern ran for President. I found the direction of the Democratic Party at the time somewhat disturbing. Something about the Hard Left heavy head trip. Then while in college in the inner city of Newark NJ, it was the destruction and dependency wrought by the welfare plantation. It wasn’t about a hand up, it was about the hand out, and destroying any incentive. It was the crab bucket in action, and it was the welfare bureaucrats as well keeping the crabs in the bucket. Ronaldus Magnus completed the transition.