Saw screwy fraud type things when I was in the military, shrugged it off. Watched Iraq for Sale and it kinda broke my brain, became anti war. Learn about fundamental attribution error on the western world while in college, that started to crack the foundation of my conservative religiosity. Trump got elected first time and it further broke the facade for me.

Then just doom scrolling on Reddit I came across anti-capitalist memes. Read Parenti shortly after, the rest is history.