I Was Red-Pilled By A British Conservative
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I Was Red-Pilled By A British Conservative
Sometimes you meet people that you feel in your heart that you were always meant to encounter. That happened to me when I met a British conservative while traveling in Madrid as he red-pilled me, changing the trajectory of my life.
In October 2018, I was bouncing around Europe by myself & Madrid was one of my stops on vacation. Prior to setting up my trip, I thought I checked to see if one of my favorite teams, Real Madrid, was playing but saw they were playing away that weekend.
While on a walking tour, I got an alert that they were playing in Madrid. I was confused about how I messed this up & upset that I could have been at a game. Nevertheless, I rushed to a restaurant to watch some of the game.
Mid-game I left because I wanted to watch my favorite team, Chelsea, play but the only places playing the game were English pubs. I went into one and it didn't feel right then went to the next pub where I stayed.
After the game was over, the beautiful sunny weather suddenly turned into a torrential downpour. With no umbrella & being far from my hostel, I decided to stay & watch the next game. Since I was staying, I sat next to a couple who would become highly influential in my life.
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The guy was from Manchester but had been living in Spain for years. His girlfriend was born in the Madrid area. As the game was going on, we chatted about a variety of topics and he was a pleasant guy. After the game was over, we exchanged numbers & continued talking for daily.
For weeks we would talk & I had no idea about his personal politics until one day the topic of Brexit came about. He explained that he was in favor of Brexit happening. I was intrigued as to why because the US media had framed Brexit as being about racism & hatred of foreigners.
Yet he's been nothing but kind to me and pleasant, far from someone I would even consider as being racist. So, in good faith, I asked him why. He said, "The United States would never allow an outside governing body to tell it what to do".
For him, it was about sovereignty and getting rid of foreign bureaucracy, not hatred of any sort. He outlined a conservative perspective that I had never heard in the U.S. mainstream media and it was one of those red-pill moments as I realized I was missing an entire perspective.
For weeks, we would exchange ideas, recommend podcast episodes and go on audiobook binges. I became highly interested in learning more about conservatism and that's when he introduced me to Thomas Sowell.
I realized how an entire political perspective was hidden from me by the media and how I really didn't know any conservatives personally to gauge their perspective on the world around them. Some of the people I was told to dislike, I learned more about & found fascinating.
I was only able to learn from him because I had good faith in him as an individual and he didn't try to force me to accept all of his positions. We just talked like two people who respected each other.
I think often about what if I did go to that Real Madrid game, what if I stayed at that first English pub or what if it didn't rain? All of those circumstances lead me to meet him because I was supposed to and he's become a friend for life.
In September of 2022, I was able to return to Madrid for the first time in 4 years and our lives were vastly different. His fiancée was days from giving birth to his first child and I was married.
There are nefarious people in this world who want us to believe that we have nothing in common because we look different and that we couldn't possibly learn from someone who is of a different political position.
My experience has shown otherwise. Humble yourself & take a pill.
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I Was Red-Pilled By A British Conservative
I think the Twitter files has shown us that there is a group out there that is desperately trying to control the narrative and prevent people from experiencing what you have. Scary when you think about it.
By the way, i have really been enjoying reading your thoughts, but I may have to reconsider after you revealed your true self as a Chelsea fan...lol! Go City!
I grew up around conservatives, many of them religious with very non-PC opinions about gay people. During college, I met a woman whom I quickly became friends with. One day she mentioned "my wife." I did a double take and then I realized I didn't care. I later found out her "wife" (gay marriage wasn't legal in those days) was black (my friend was white), and they didn't make enough to survive so (in something that was also looked down upon where I came from) they had government assistance. But none of that mattered to me, and the part of me that might be judgmental was overridden by the side that cared about her. She was the reason I became far more liberal in my thinking. I finally understood and saw the world from a perspective I would have never considered.
That sad thing about our world is that we don't learn because we allow other people to tell us what X group is like rather than finding out for ourselves. And, yes, there are some very powerful people who depend on the fact that we don't even try.
Thank you for a wonderful article, and I'm glad I get a chance to compliment you on your last article for the New York Post about Cori Bush and "blacking wrong."