What's Your Political Story?

[nathanbforrest45]

I read Atlas Shrugged.

[Common]

you misspelled "government" .

headsmack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Captain Obvious]

Stockpiling ammo

[resister]

headsmack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What did you do that for Gibbs?

[Dr. Who]

A completely socialistic nation cannot exist within the context of a capitalist world unless it is completely isolated. For one thing, a totally socialistic nation would have no need for currency. There really has yet to be a completely socialistic nation on the planet. It's pretty much like trying to be a virgin in a brothel.

[Peter1469]

A completely socialistic nation cannot exist within the context of a capitalist world unless it is completely isolated. For one thing, a totally socialistic nation would have no need for currency. There really has yet to be a completely socialistic nation on the planet. It's pretty much like trying to be a virgin in a brothel.

That totally socialist country won't exist until the problem of scarcity is solved; one it is solved there is no longer a reason for a free market.

[Scrounger]

It's a bit difficult to tell you how my political story begins. My first political experience per se began many years ago when busing, racial quotas, affirmative action and preferential hiring schemes were all the rage.

As a teen I could not find a job. Then the union laid many of us whites off to simply give black people a job. A letter to the editor of the local paper generated a lot of interest in me by the local media and within a few weeks, that put me into radio debates with the local liberals - where I did pretty good, all things considered.

My position was that an employer owned the job they created and the employer was in a better position to know which job candidate they thought could do the best job for them. Additionally, you could not fix the wrongs of the past with more wrongs, aimed at a generation that wasn't even born when segregation was going on.

Later on, I would be in the ministry, but still active when issues demanded it - and that meant being an activist with the same zeal I had fought against reverse discrimination. That activism ultimately resulted in my studying law, becoming a Justice of the Peace and, of all things, participating in a standoff against the cops when they tried to auction off a guy's farm for being a little late in paying the property tax. Fortunately that incident would end when a rich benefactor cut a deal with the government to pay the guy's taxes, any late fees, etc. and allow us to leave without further incident.

My legal skills were used for many political ventures (including managing political campaigns and debating various activists on issues of concern.) Once, after a series of debates, Hosea Williams (the heir to the Martin Luther King Jr. political empire known as the SCLC) lost to me on his own tv show and it was cancelled at the end of that season.

I treated my political activism the same way an attorney approaches his cases. You study your case until you can argue your opponent's view better than he could and still know that you had the right answer for your side of the aisle. My study of the law, history, the Bible and current events put me 180 degrees opposite of where you found yourself. After studying the whole story of America's founding and our system of laws through our country's history, before we changed course, it became apparent that socialism was no match to what America had originally created.

[Crepitus]

Your political story is the story of your political ideology. Where did you begin? How did you get to where you are now? I'll start to show how this works.

I grew up a conservative Republican. My parents worked for the city GOP's arm of the George W. Bush campaign in 2004. I remember driving to Los Angeles to visit my grandparents on election night, listening to the results coming in. In 2008, I followed their example and worked for the city GOP's arm of John McCain's campaign. I wore a McCain/Palin t-shirt, with Palin's face shopped onto Rosie the Riveter's body, to school for a week and got beaten up by a friend of a friend for it. We spent election night at a bar/restaurant that broadcast the results live on the wall with a big projector. I remember the party starting out jubilant, we were sure we'd win. As the night progressed it became clear that McCain was not only going to lose, he was going to lose fairly badly. I remember crying as former President Obama was declared the winner. I think that moment was the turning point for me.

After election night 2008, I began a long process of soul-searching. I started to evaluate my political beliefs, and found that I only really held them because that's how I was raised, and didn't really have any logical reason to hold them. So, I set out on a quest to debate my political views with other people. As I had previously done to decide my religious views, I argued every one of my political views. If someone countered my arguments, I would find a counter to their counter. If I could not find a counter, I would abandon the belief and find another one that could be better defended. I spent 2010-2013 following Ron Paul and the libertarians, until I ran into the same problem as my conservative Republican views: no counter to certain arguments. That was when I discovered socialism, and it has been an integral part of my political philosophy (among other things) since.

As a younger man I spent a substantial amount of time both in countries with little to no central government and countries with extreme hard right authoritarian governments. Both of those extremes are bad, resulting in little to no freedom or security for regular people. Liberalism, taken in moderation, is what seems to offer the most of both.

[Crepitus]

I read Atlas Shrugged.

Read something else. Rand was a moron.

[Archer0915]

I have always been a free thinker! My parents never voted and pop stayed drunk. We did not talk politics around the home either. We did not have all that much money and I was the only one that went to church so I could get out of the house.

I am a conservative on some things and liberal on others. I accept neither party at a national level but I find myself more in line with local democrats. I am pretty balanced on the state level and I think I have voted (D) more than (R) for governor.