The end to my right-wing flirtation
The Trump election turned me right wing. It was such an insane shocking event that I went searching for explanations. And I found them. Rod Dreher in particular clued me in to the discontent brewing among the religiously conservative. I found myself agreeing with them. Dreher was able to find such insane oddities that I imagined that major US cities were filled with degenerates. And I've just spent an evening in one of these degenerate places. It was a pleasant family affair. I'm sure that there were a few degenerates, homosexuals acting wildly inappropriately, whatever, there. I didn't notice. I noticed the families. They were intact and enjoying a pleasant evening. The fact is that it took right-wing media for me to be clued in on those things. But in real life I don't see them. They do exist. This is a big world with 7 billion people and a few are going to be weirdos. My new years resolution has been to end my consumption of alt-right media. I still find them i