Misha Petrov was a young girl who uploaded a YouTube video that garnered quite a bit attention in June. She received a lot responses to the video, many of which were completely in her favor.
Petrov was shown as a Democrat, just like the majority of her peers. Her university was full of radical leftism. Even in non-socio-political classes, she was immersed in it. She couldn’t get through a math class without it being woke.
Petrov soon realized she was unable to identify with the left, and, as her video shows, she quit it. Petrov also left her university, which was so numb to waking life that it no longer served as a learning environment.
Petrov mentions in her video that before she realized it, she believed that only a few in the country were truly conservative. Due to how social media works, she was lead to believe it was small group, almost cult-like, of racists or bigots.
Due to being constantly exposed by mainstream content she believed leftism was America’s dominant political ideology. She became more involved in the movement as a result.
She had a moment of awakening when the documentary “The Social Dilemma” pointed out that social media algorithms feed political division. It didn’t help that some of her friends were drifting more and more to the left and spouting talking points and attitudes from groups like Black Lives Matter.
Petrov said she posted the clip from the documentary to her socials and not much later, received a handful of text messages from her friends asking why she posted it and if she’s a Trump supporter now.
“They were ready to attack me,” said Petrov.
“They were proving my point,” she continued. “I can’t really post or say anything without people getting defensive or offended, and it really made me miss the days when we could all say ‘oh, let’s agree to disagree.’”
Petrov’s university would fall further to the right as she was pushed away from it. Men would walk into women’s restrooms under the claim they were trans but would put no effort into looking like a woman at all, and assignments from professors would focus on identity politics and trigger warnings. Petrov was soon free from the infantilization and hypocrisy she had been forced to accept.
Petrov’s tale exposes a very interesting flaw in our society, and it’s a flaw that works in favor of the left. The radical left.
For those who have never seen “The Social Dilemma,” I recommend you go see it as soon as possible. You will be shocked at how much social media and its creators can control your thoughts, particularly if you engage with social media frequently.
Algorithms have a primary purpose: to keep you engaged and hooked. If you don’t turn notifications off on your phone, for instance, your social app will bump you at various points in the day where it learned that you’re the most susceptible to looking at it. If you’re susceptible to political posts that gear more toward conservative/libertarian ways of thinking, you’ll be fed that more often, making you want to engage and interact with the site even more.
The constant feed of right-leaning info feeds right-leaning thoughts. The same is happening to people on the left, the only difference is that the left’s reliance on sensationalism and identity politics puts leftists into the mindset that they truly are up against real evil.
This is especially true for young people, who have not had any real life experience that can help them understand how sensationalism works. It doesn’t help that this is being reinforced by professors and teachers in schools and universities. No one should be surprised that America has a large and sensitive young population. They are ready to take on anyone who even suggests talking about it.
It takes courage to be young in America, and separate yourself from the Left.
The left, in general, is being deceived. Many act the way they do, not because they themselves are evil, but because they don’t know any better. They need help, and there are many fronts we need to battle the left over if we’re to free these mental and emotional prisoners.
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