[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

[Fantasywriter]

Thank you so much.