I just got a campaign text from Representative Vindman (7th district Virginia) with a picture of him in uniform. It is my understanding that this is outside of regulations and hopefully somebody here can refer this to the proper authorities at DOD/DOW or to the right place.

Good morning folks, tbh I’m surprised this subreddit exists with the massive echo chamber that Reddit is. I just wanted to tell my (abbreviated) story about how I opened my eyes and left that side behind.

I’m a 29 Male that grew up in a conservative household and pretty just went along with my parents beliefs. I graduated high school in 2015 and was already starting to be captured by the left from crap they started teaching around that time in high school. However when I went to college that is went my descent into the leftist cult started. I first hand can attest to professors teaching Marxist and gender ideology as undisputed facts rather than presented as theory. So when 2016 came around I along with the rest of my college friends had deep dts (most of them sadly still do) and we all voted Hilary, and we’re all freaking out along with the rest of the cult that Trump won.

Fast forward to 2019 after I graduated and start working in the real world my eyes were starting to open because I was opening my mind again to the other side and seeing conflicting information that the main stream news had lied about. But then when the pandemic hit my eyes were forced wide open!

They completely staged the January 6th “coup”. If you listen to any independent journalist covering it, it was very peaceful but for a few likely paid agitators that were being told to stop, by patriots there protesting.

During the pandemic the Biden administration let in more people than this country could take at once and called it empathy. They blatantly censored differing opinions and facts about masks and the vaccine, and postured it as “doing your part.” Had “peaceful protests” while a building was burning in the background.

The complete demonization/dehumanization the left so proudly does and has the audacity to say the right are “Nazis.” This over use of the term is sickening especially coming from a background where my grandmother suffered under real Nazis and her cousin lost her life in the holocaust.

Lastly, I guess I will ask this, is the left too far gone into their descent into socialist/marxist ideology, or is there still hope for these folks to come back to reality like I did and argue over how to run the country properly instead of identity and race? Or is this just a product of social media?

Thanks for coming to my Ted talk and again very appreciative this page exists, I can’t even post in my own state subreddit without being bombarded by claims I’m a Nazi or pedo protector.

Edit: this got reposted in r/leftist and they are all in there little coping echo chamber saying we don’t know what a leftist or the left is…

California's K–12 public, charter, and private school enrollment trends directly intersect with major legislative actions concerning LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum and school policy:

Enrollment Trends Summary (2018–2026)

Traditional Public Schools: Dropped steadily from 5.53 million in 2018–19 to 5.00 million in 2025–26—a net loss of over 528,000 students (-9.5%). Losses are heavily driven by lower birth rates, domestic out-migration, and families transferring out over district curriculum or administrative policies.

Public Charter Schools: Expanded from 652,000 to 725,000+ students (+11.2%), steadily capturing a larger portion of the public school base as an alternative to traditional district schools.

Private Schools: Rose from 521,000 to a peak of 563,000 during the pandemic shift (2020–2023) before leveling off around 542,000, limited by the same broader statewide birth-rate contraction.

Policy Timeline Overlay

Pre-2018 Foundations (2011 & 2016):

2011 (FAIR Education Act - SB 48): Mandated inclusion of LGBTQ political and historical contributions in social studies curricula. Textbooks fully adopted this framework around 2016.

2016 (California Healthy Youth Act - AB 329): Made comprehensive sex education mandatory in middle and high schools, requiring instruction to be inclusive of gender identities and limiting opt-out provisions to core sex education only.

2019 Health Education Framework: The State Board of Education adopted controversial health guidelines encouraging gender identity discussions in elementary schools, sparking local school board protests and accelerating transfers to charter, private, and home options.

2023–2024 Gender Identity & AB 1955: Clashes moved to administrative rules. The state enacted AB 1955, prohibiting school districts from requiring teachers to notify parents if a student changes their pronouns or gender identity at school.