Uhhh so I'm talking to this girl that I met through some mutual friends and we've been texting and hanging out for a week or so. This is not important information except for the fact that she was hanging out with those mutual friends today and texted me that they were shit talking how "insane I am about politics" and things like that. She wanted to let me know which I respect but I also probably could've gone without the information.

Anyways apparently it was just regarding how "extreme my views are" and that I'm obsessed with them. It boggles my mind and honestly hurts a little bit. I thought these people were my friends and they're here gossiping about me and my passion to change the world for the better. Some of these people are LGBTQ+ and all are supposedly progressive/accepting. You'd think they'd have a little understanding of this shit but I guess not.

I just accepted it and kind of tried to explain that most USians think that way and that it's inherently a privilege to be against radical action. That it's a privilege to be able to whine about having to listen to someone discussing serious things a lot and be able to stick your head in the sand. That people in most of the world have politics forced onto them.

She got it and was just kind of neutral which is fine. Just so annoying to me that I'm surrounded by people that think this way. I'm blacklisted in my community essentially because of my views and am viewed as the unhinged radical. I'm talked about negatively all the time because of my politics and passion for the things I learn about and post online. I'm not a bad person, I don't think. I don't know why I deserve this or why people think like this. I truly feel insane. Am I in a cult? Am I the insane one? Or is my country really this stupid, immature, and sick?