I've been awake for quite a while now, but maybe not fully - until pretty recently.
For instance, I knew 9/11 was an inside job. I knew about Lock Step as COVID broke out. Things like this, I was well-read on. What I wasn't quite aware of are things like how much poison is directly placed into our food supply. I knew about fluoride, but not so much about glyphosphate, seed oils, etc.
I guess I'm just curious: what brought you around? What incident or set of circumstances led you to the mindset you have now?
Basically, what woke you up?
when the DNC coronated $hillary in '16. it was painfully obvious $hillary couldn't beat Trump and Bernie's momentum and the passion of Bernie's base were undeniable. i was gobsmacked dumbfounded blown away when the delegates, almost all of whom were seasoned pols who'd won at least one election, went along with $hillary, the candidate who perfectly encapsulated all the reasons Americans were fed up and willing to get behind a Trump or a Bernie. What also blew me away was how all the talking heads and media outlets on the left bailed on Bernie even though Bernie was exactly the candidate most of those voices had been crying out for for the last 20+ years. Rachel Madcow is perfectly representative of one of the voices who had to abandon almost the principles she'd claimed to espouse for the previous 10+ years to support Clinton-the Lesser. And then fucking Bernie just rolled over and supported the person who'd not just cheated him, but all of his supporters.
I'd been following the Seth Rich stuff pretty closely. I knew much of the national politics was rigged and controlled but hadn't grasped the extent. Then pizzagate happened. I watched that shit blow up in real-time over the course of 3 days when it went from "check out these weird e-mails" to "HOLYSHITMOTHEROFGOD! CHECK OUT THESE FUCKING E-MAILS!!!!" I couldn't tear myself away from the internet that whole weekend.
Pizzagate made everything make alot more sense. I'd already been redpilled on 9/11, JFK, Mena/CIA, OKC/McVeigh, banking/fiat shenanigans, ad infinitum, but hadn't realized how much everything was really connected and how pervasive the deep state/cabal was. Then the MSM went along with and hyped the Trump/Russia bullshit. I'd followed FBIanon and Meganon, and discovered Q pre-tripcode and got totally 100% sucked into that bullshit all the way to just after Biden's inaugural.
Along the way, though, I started totally re-evaluating EVERYTHING i thought i knew or was taught, and started following the evidence where it led regardless of what personal sacred cows i had to slaughter. I was pretty bummed to have to admit NASA and the 50's/60's era of rocket development was bullshit. One of the biggest sacred cows needing slaughtering was how my fundie Baptist upbringing taught me to consider jews. Now, I'm firmly in the Hitler-did-nothing-wrong camp. John Birch society was/is wayyyy more right than wrong. If our current era/zeitgeist decided an actual holocaust needed to happen, I'd be alright with it. Jews have been fucking up every community they've been allowed into for millenia.
that's about as concise a tl;dr of the last 7-8 years as i can come up with, though it still leaves alot out (and my lunch break is about over :)