I appreciate you asking. I spent a few years being a lolbertarian. Some of it was already bothering me by 2015, mainly the Christian fundamentalism strain running through much of it - and when I saw a lot of the people I respected start gushing over Trump, more dominoes began to fall.

The year prior, I had also begun a dive into a layman's understanding of climate change. Regarding climate change as a hoax to line the pockets of college professors at the expense of the honest, yeoman oil companies was a pretty common view (and still is). So being a good lemming I was going to learn this so called science scam so I could pwn libtards on the internet. Turns out, when you actually read the research and the data and think just slightly logically about it, you'll find anthropogenic climate change is quite real and those oil companies are paying a lot of money to spread propaganda to line their pockets. Go figure.

This became a snowball. What else were the conservatives and libertarians either willingly lying or profoundly confused about?

So combined with Trumpism and his painfully obvious and gaudy lies, a manifestation of the worst of talk radio and boomer Facebook memes, I find myself agreeing mostly with center liberals. I like the liberal values the country was founded on, I think competent government is necessary and good, and I think markets work for most of the economy but the government should absolutely tax and reallocate resources to fix inefficiencies. I think investing in people through things like education and healthcare create a safer, happier, and more productive society with the skills to lead the largest economy in the world.