I have undergone the exact same move, but I think my political beliefs are not sophisticated enough for me to be able to identify a solid target to “believe already.” My time on the right gave me some pieces of information that strongly falsified a few beliefs often bucketed with the left, even as I moved leftward, which has helped me moderate my trust that continuing leftward would capture the things I expect to believe in the future.
Put another way, politics is multivariate / high dimensional. A clear trend in one specific dimension isn’t meaningless, but is so lossy that I wouldn’t be surprised if it stopped or apparently reversed slightly.
I have undergone the exact same move, but I think my political beliefs are not sophisticated enough for me to be able to identify a solid target to “believe already.” My time on the right gave me some pieces of information that strongly falsified a few beliefs often bucketed with the left, even as I moved leftward, which has helped me moderate my trust that continuing leftward would capture the things I expect to believe in the future.
Put another way, politics is multivariate / high dimensional. A clear trend in one specific dimension isn’t meaningless, but is so lossy that I wouldn’t be surprised if it stopped or apparently reversed slightly.