There is a lot of answers but if I'd say just one it would be rejecting the current institutional power. At least right now in our time period. Fully rejecting the imperial state, no matter how much they potentially benefit from it seems like a solid transition
we are all lib so let's not gatekeep what leftist™️ actually is. I guarantee you were a lib once too(still are, but once too.)
For me it was a combination of Bernie getting fucked over and looking around and realizing that making things safe and equitable for everybody wasn't the center of all the other lib's politics.
Plus the Chapo episode where they just dunk on the West Wing for an hour.
That's the most honest liberalism I've seen anyone say in awhile and you deserve a :gold-communist: kind stranger