• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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      6 days ago

      Ah, Gary Johnson. I had such high hopes for him in 2016…

      It was my first presidential election as an eligible voter, and this was before the alt-right co-opted libertarianism. All I knew was that I hated trump, and I was being bombarded with anti-Clinton propaganda so I didn’t like her either (but not for the right reasons, like how she’s a neoliberal capitalist).

      I didn’t know enough about Bernie at the time. I didn’t know enough about leftism or the world in general to consider myself a progressive yet. I hadn’t even entered the cocoon in which I later metamorphosed into a full-blown socialist throughout my mid-twenties.

      Gary Johnson… my first vote in a presidential election… sigh

      Those were… simpler times…