Just about every single country in the world was built via some type of conquest. This is a nonsensical, irrelevant argument.
But yet you guys make it about China. Yes, China is oppressing the Uighers and Tibetans.... and we oppress the Cherokees and Navajo... That's my point.
Let he who is without sin throw the first stone.
There is no way this one event changed your entire outlook so drastically. I am supposed to believe you were a US loving, Conservative prior to this event and then did a complete 180. The only explanation would be that you left out a key part of your injury. You were kicked in the knee by a donkey and then again in the head on your way down. That may explain it.
Oh, that wasn't the only thing... It was kind of a key turning point.
Another was watching the Pageant of Religious Crazy that followed Obama's election. You know, they had this gathering in 2008, where the featured speakers were "The Guy who thinks he's wearing Magic Underwear", the "Guy who once performed an exorcism", the "Gal whose Church invited a Witch-hunter to speak" and "the Guy who believes the Rapture is coming". (That would be Romney, Jindal, Palin and Huckabee, respectively).
the thing is, Ronald Reagan wouldn't be welcome in the Cult of Trump. Jesus Christ, he gave 3 million illegals AMNESTY!!! And he was friends with Rock Hudson. That wouldn't play well in the party of "We hate Mexicans and Gays just like Jesus did."
So at the end of 2008, I had a busted 401K, an underwater mortgage and I was working a job that paid me a lot less than the one I was working at, and all the GOP had to offer was a lot of religious crazy and OH MY GOD, THERE'S A NEGRO IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
Now, I would LOVE to be able to say, "I left the GOP when Bush lied us into a war in Iraq" or "I left the GOP when Bush's incompetence got all those people killed in New Orleans". Nope. I left when Bush's incompetence and the GOP's craziness got me to a point where "I can't excuse this anymore."