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I was radicalized twice, the first time by the Vietnam War and the second time by the AIDS crisis in the US.

The Vietnam War taught me that the US was lying and killing soldiers and civilians, and as a result it was not to be trusted but feared and resisted. The AIDS crisis in the US and the official silence but private mockery by Reagan (may he burn in Hell forever) and the Republicans taught me that the official US government is cruel, homophobic and a direct threat to my existence.
Trump has further radicalized me by revealing himself as a cruel, racist, shockingly corrupt, narcissistic madman. The revelation to me in my mature years how many of my fellow citizens actively and passively support cruelty, ignorance, anti-reason, racism, lawlessness, and boundless greed has been a sad filter through which I now see reality as it is, not as I hoped it would be or turn out.