My story is boring since I’m in the US and it’s probably the same as so many other people here from the imperial core, but I’ll say it anyway to get the conversation going. In fact, this is all so similar to other people I’ve met, I don’t think any of this information on my political journey is going to doxx me lol.
I’m from the US, supported the Democratic Party but was very lib. Deprogramming consisted of various steps, not a single event. One was us going into Iraq, which made me start to question the official narratives that justify our foreign policy.
One was Obama’s campaign, which I know, he bailed out the billionaires and banks and dropped his huge movement as soon as he was elected, but also he actually made me believe something like healthcare for everyone was possible and our foreign policy didn’t have to suck for the first time, as his campaign promised an alternative to the wars and torture and spying of Bush. His failures also taught me the problem with trying to reach across the aisle all the time as well as the innate issues implanted into the US political system designed to stymie progress. The fact that they basically stole a supreme court justice from him and they could do nothing kind of proved the system was broken to me.
Then Bernie’s two campaigns made me believe the word socialism wasn’t as scary as I first thought and made me look into them. The connections formed during those campaigns I think are still sustaining the nacent socialism movement in the US today.
I’d also say this last election was pretty radicalizing as well. Their dogged determination to hold onto genocide and then losing to Trump made me lose hope in the blue party and finally give me the motivation to look into PSL, FRSO, DSA, etc. I’ll probably still vote for the most progressive Dems locally, but the national project seems incompetent and I don’t really believe they’ll help us so much as possibly slow the tide of fascism, while we need it to actually reverse. My hope is in parties like the PSL. They’re super small right now, but hey, so was the Bolsheviks at first.
I heard from a friend from USA who was once a member of both CPUSA and DSA that CPUSA was ineffective, slow and didn’t do anything worthwhile, and that DSA was counter intuitive and that he couldn’t see eye-to-eye
He quit both, telling me that he couldn’t even find members in his state and that he was too far away to even join their rallies
My story is boring since I’m in the US and it’s probably the same as so many other people here from the imperial core, but I’ll say it anyway to get the conversation going. In fact, this is all so similar to other people I’ve met, I don’t think any of this information on my political journey is going to doxx me lol.
I’m from the US, supported the Democratic Party but was very lib. Deprogramming consisted of various steps, not a single event. One was us going into Iraq, which made me start to question the official narratives that justify our foreign policy.
One was Obama’s campaign, which I know, he bailed out the billionaires and banks and dropped his huge movement as soon as he was elected, but also he actually made me believe something like healthcare for everyone was possible and our foreign policy didn’t have to suck for the first time, as his campaign promised an alternative to the wars and torture and spying of Bush. His failures also taught me the problem with trying to reach across the aisle all the time as well as the innate issues implanted into the US political system designed to stymie progress. The fact that they basically stole a supreme court justice from him and they could do nothing kind of proved the system was broken to me.
Then Bernie’s two campaigns made me believe the word socialism wasn’t as scary as I first thought and made me look into them. The connections formed during those campaigns I think are still sustaining the nacent socialism movement in the US today.
I’d also say this last election was pretty radicalizing as well. Their dogged determination to hold onto genocide and then losing to Trump made me lose hope in the blue party and finally give me the motivation to look into PSL, FRSO, DSA, etc. I’ll probably still vote for the most progressive Dems locally, but the national project seems incompetent and I don’t really believe they’ll help us so much as possibly slow the tide of fascism, while we need it to actually reverse. My hope is in parties like the PSL. They’re super small right now, but hey, so was the Bolsheviks at first.
I heard from a friend from USA who was once a member of both CPUSA and DSA that CPUSA was ineffective, slow and didn’t do anything worthwhile, and that DSA was counter intuitive and that he couldn’t see eye-to-eye
He quit both, telling me that he couldn’t even find members in his state and that he was too far away to even join their rallies