My experience is similar. I was considered liberal for decades. I voted for Obama twice, then for Hillary and Joe Biden. I canvassed for Bernie and Hillary. Then unknown people/entities pummeled all of us with propaganda/censorship causing most “liberal” people I knew to flip without any explanation and often without any concern for the contradictions based on their former recent positions. Such a bizarre thing to witness. For the most part, I’m not the one who changed.

Colin Wright illustrated it well with this simple cartoon:

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“A new measure of issue polarization using k-means clustering: US trends 1988–2024 and predictors of polarization across the world.”

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp:

I didn’t shift my politics. The political parties shifted their politics.”

“…dysfunction, things that never work, socialism, no meritocracy— that’s not progressive. That’s cowardly.

“Half my old party knows it. They don’t speak up. It’s bullshit.