You know what has happened to me? OT radicalized me, at least to some extent. I'm pretty middle of the road, but the cumulative effect of reading the far right, and often hateful posts and reprints (Coulter, NewsMax, etc.) has pushed me further left than I ever thought I'd be. Just to distance myself as much as possible I guess.
The prodigious use of “liberal” as a slander word, the vicious attacks mounted against the president’s critics, and the narrow mindedness that I have seen from a fairly good chunk of the “right” crowd downright scares me.
So I guess you could say that debate has changed my mind. It made me realize that the waters on the right were dangerous, so I steered left
