Not quite, but it’s very similar. I have an old friend that lived for a couple decades in a VERY progressive, urban area, recently moved closer to me in a smaller town, so I went to see him and, while we are definitely still friends, there were some very dangerous conversation topics covered (carbon climate, EVs which are easy to get me going on). It’s like a conservative brain worm infected him sometime in the past few months, very strange.
Yeah, sure, he “corrected” towards believing more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is good and that “leftists” were responsible for starting a bunch of local wildfires.
Not quite, but it’s very similar. I have an old friend that lived for a couple decades in a VERY progressive, urban area, recently moved closer to me in a smaller town, so I went to see him and, while we are definitely still friends, there were some very dangerous conversation topics covered (carbon climate, EVs which are easy to get me going on). It’s like a conservative brain worm infected him sometime in the past few months, very strange.
Could it be that he was finally exposed to alternative viewpoints after leaving, as you described it, a VERY progressive, urban area?
I wouldn’t call that a brain worm. If anything, he probably made a correction toward center after leaving an area saturated in blue.
Yeah, sure, he “corrected” towards believing more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is good and that “leftists” were responsible for starting a bunch of local wildfires.
Ahhh yes, the most galaxy brain of galaxy brain political ideologies.
Enlightened Centrism.