Quote:we're clearly polar opposites in terms of our politics.


It's also very odd that the critiques you lay upon me, are the exact critiques I charge you with.


I don't mind you pointing out when you think I'm not thinking fur myself, Heck I make it a point to call you out for those things.


But I just don't get how you changed your political philosophy. Was it a specific every that changed your thinking?

 

Just a moment of clarity.  I simply realized that my entire foundation was on shifting sand.  Born from emotion and not fact, built on what I wanted to believe ...instead of where the truth took me, whether I liked it or not.  Jumping to the wrong conclusions based on who I liked/disliked and not the substance of the subject matter itself.  Simply put, I was being immature and letting emotion override my conscience.

 

There's a peace that comes with being honest to yourself and not having to justify your foundation of beliefs by ignoring or discarding evidence to the contrary.

 

Occam's Razor comes to mind.  I was having to work harder to justify my flimsy position and still couldn't tip the scale against evidence to the contrary.  This was a journey from the right (I initially considered it environment, so as a youth I reflexively rebelled and rejected it), then to the left in defiance of it, then back again.

 

I am not registered Republican and never will be.  I am also not registered Democrat and will never be.  I will forever remain independent.  Yes, there are Democrats I would vote for, though that pool is emptying rapidly.  There are also fewer Republicans than I can stomach than at any time I can remember, including back in the peak of my left leaning days when I was rooting for Bill to defeat GHWB.  I identify most closely to libertarian, but again am not party bound.  Nor do I consider that a true party in an effectual sense.  It's more of a philosophy.

 

Libertarian on personal freedoms, and constitutional conservative would be the best way to describe my foundation.  I believe we're getting farther and farther away from the foundations and principles that created the greatest nation ever built.  I feel we're getting to a point where it's undergoing irreparable damage.  Historically, we've outlived every great society there ever was, and we're seeing our decline from that global perch.

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