@Just Wayne
Not at all. Everyone does stupid shit at some point in their life.
I used to be a person who tried as hard as they possibly could to be a centrist, but I ended up being misinformed at best and utterly braindead at worst when it came to serious issues going on in the world. I sounded like one of those weirdos who complain about women not being hyper-sexualized in games like it was some kind of “PoLiTiCaL aGeNdA fRoM tHoSe DaMn WoKiEs.”
It wasn’t until the Covid pandemic where I stepped back and realized how stupid it was to do any of that, and just fully embraced being a leftist. You can’t really “both-sides” an issue when one of those sides are full of neo-nazis, now can you?
So yeah, it’s normal to hate who you used to be.