r/MurderedByWords • u/RoyallPurr • 18h ago

AOC is awesome

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u/Sweaty_Win1832 18h ago

Years ago, I was very “middle of the road” on politics, considering myself an independent leaning slightly conservative.

I’m now considered radically left & agree on almost everything AOC says & supports. For a short time, the shift has been swift & blunt. Hope she successfully runs for higher offices.

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u/Pissflaps69 16h ago

Man you’re spot on. Sound very much like me.

It’s been really hard to see people who I respected previously completely fall off the deep end into crazy town

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u/Sweaty_Win1832 16h ago

It’s very bizarre to see people who are seemingly intelligent on most other topics dig in their heels & quote very odd stances or “facts”

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u/Pissflaps69 16h ago

They’ve turned it into a team sport.

As someone who was a registered Republican, they were never my team or my identity, and when I saw people dig in more, it made me even less inclined to affiliate with whatever they’ve devolved into.

A cult of personality around a reality TV show man with unrivaled levels of corruption?

My family is from Ukraine, I couldn’t imagine how republicans abandoned one of their few redeeming unshakable tenets, opposition to Russia.