So I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, a very liberal hippie culture mostly, and growing up, most of my friends were illegal aliens; like 2 of my 3 closest friends before college were illegal aliens. The area is mostly democrats and as a matter of fact, my fourth grade teacher’s brother is Congressman George Miller, who coauthored No Child Left Behind, which is interesting because when I was in the fourth grade, a student’s mother bought the class a set of books to read, but there wasn’t enough books, and since I was a slow reader, I didn’t get a book. Anyway so I didn’t go to a regular high school, I went to a high school on a community college campus and our curriculum was part high school and part college, so I was lucky to have professors in high school. I took at least two courses in African American studies, which was super beneficial to my understanding American civil rights and liberties. I was basically taught that capitalism is bad, war is bad, religion is bad, communism and socialism are good… basically. So it was a liberal/left education, and I was so sold on these ideas and I thought they were the answer, everything else was either evil and greedy. Then I went to college and I studied engineering, so my education was technical and I didn’t further my understanding of civics, political science, or anything else. While I was in college I met a girl from Cuba, and asked her about communism and I mentioned the benefits, and she was like… uh, no. Then I met a girl from Venezuela and asked her about their form of government and I mentioned the benefits, and she was like… uh, no. So I was like, WTF mate. Then when I was in college, a girl randomly asked me about illegal immigrants and I was in immediate defense with my reasonings, and she looked at me like, are you crazy. Can you imagine that? I thought I had the answers. Which reminds me, when I was in Germany, I had a brief discussion about religion that ended abruptly because my response was to talk about how bad religion was with a girl who was religious and she didn’t wanna hear it, and at the time I was an engineering student who didn’t know history and thought the holocaust was thousands of years ago. Yeah, I was so amazed with what I was learning, thought I knew everything, and I had a lot to learn. So after college, I continued to learn, mostly focusing on technical stuff, I even got a second technical degree, and never really watch the news or studied politics. I continued working and learning, living life, had some issues with friends, family, and employers… then I got to a point where I told my uncle that I lost faith in humanity, and I meant it. But I never lost hope, because I studied African American studies, and I understood American civil rights and liberties. So I’ve always had a “can’t stop, won’t stop” mindset. So I kept on moving forward, rolling with the punches, and then I was fired for the third time in a row, and by this time I was already used to being fired, when I got the bad news, I was super composed and straightforward. I moved back to my cyberstalking parents house from my bugged apartment to try to work things out with them, but the glasslighting continued. So at this point, I figured it was time to expand my learning and steer away from technical stuff that was supposed to make me money but wasn’t and to start focusing on the news and politics… stuff I don’t entirely understand, and still don’t perfectly understand. And even though I was entirely sold on certain liberal ideas, or what I think are liberal ideas, I wasn’t sold on a political party, even when I voted for the first time, I was given a democrat ballot and then said I wanted an independent ballot because I didn’t want to just follow the crowd blindly, I want to be able to think and choose for myself. I knew that there were certain African American historical figures who were Republican and I knew from history that the Democratic Party supported slavery and it was the Republican Party who opposed slavery. So stepping out of my “comfort” zone, I figured if I’m going to get a better understanding of politics and the news, that I need to watch news from both sides. So I started watching Fox News, and I swear, I felt like they were speaking to me. Now with some life experience and struggles, I was amazed how relevant the news was to my life and how much I agreed. It was like someone was finally understanding me. It was around this time when I spent less time watching sports and more time watching the news. I learned about Ben Shapiro and The Daily Wire. Then I started to reevaluate my ideas about immigration, abortion, etc.
For example, the only reason I voted for Hilary Clinton was because I didn’t want my friends to get deported, but at this time my friends were backstabbing me and even knew I was going to get beat up by my cousin. It took me some time to realize that if my friends were in the country legally, our relationship would’ve been better. I care for people in general, but illegal immigration causes many problems for our country, including problems on a social level; America is equal opportunity for everyone, but not so much for illegals. So now I see things differently. And for abortion, am I really pro choice? I think anything past the plan b pill is being irresponsible, so yeah, I’m pro life.