[FLT-bird]

I confess I supported the 2nd Iraq war and used to be almost reflexively in favor of military intervention abroad.

I also used to be in favor of free trade deals.

I also used to reflexively favor the FBI and the CIA and various government police/security agencies as well as the Pentagon.

I was also more in favor of a lighter regulatory touch from the government on corporations.

Of course this was before stupid war after stupid war after stupid war followed by titanically wasteful “nation building” efforts that dragged on for decades. This was before I saw the devastation outsourcing would cause to entire communities and how much this would both weaken national security and fuel the rise of the CCP. This was before a bunch of Big Tech monopolies acting as a cartel would crush free speech and use their monopoly power to crush any attempts to compete with them a la Google/Apple/Amazon/Microsoft/Twitter ganging up to crush Parler.

This was before the FBI and the CIA and other government agencies would show themselves to be massively politically corrupt to the point that we now have actual political prisoners and before the 3 letter agencies would be used to threaten ordinary Americans for doing things like objecting to sexual predators employed as public school teachers grooming their kids in school. This was before the Pentagon adopted the worst policies of the progressive far Left and even the chairman of the joint chiefs took to making overtly racist remarks in congressional testimony.

Now that I’ve seen those things, I’ve changed my mind about several issues.

[Chickensoup]

Yes

[JoJo354]

You got it right. It is hard to read the news these days. I go between outrage and sadness and have to stop reading. Life has changed and it hasn’t changed for the better.

[Red6]

Yes-

I have the exact same views.