How Your Political Views Have Changed Over The Years

[Adelaide]

Knock it off $#@!breath!

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[Peter1469]

I was apolitical growing up. In the army, under Reagan then Bush I was a neocon. After deployments I realized that neocons were incorrect in their policies. And they spent tax dollars like drunken democrats.

So now I am 100% independent.

[Green Arrow]

I was raised a very partisan conservative Republican. I recall my parents working on Bush II's 2004 re-election and listening to the results on the radio as we drove home from Los Angeles. I didn't understand much about it then, but I turned out to be a very highly political kid. By 2008 I was working with my dad on John McCain's campaign with our state Republican HQ, as well as the down-ballot races (but most of my efforts were put into McCain's election). I wore a McCain-Palin shirt everywhere I went, manned the phone banks, put out signs across the state, all kinds of stuff. Even got the $#@! beat out of me at school for the shirt. We went to a bar/restaurant on election night to watch the results come in on the big screen, our whole HQ, they just put up Fox News's coverage of it on a big projector and shined it on the wall. I remember being stunned like I got punched in the gut when it became clear Obama was going to win.

After that loss I started looking into things for myself and stopped just going along with my parents. 2010 was the first election I was eligible to vote in, the day I turned 18 I walked into my U.S. Government teacher's class and asked her for a voter registration form, she gave it to me and I filled it out and she turned it in for me. California at the time made you either register for a party or as "No Party Affiliation," so I registered NPA. Learned the hard way that the choice to not register for a party severely limited my choices, I basically only got to vote on local (as in, city) races and a couple non-partisan state races. That opened my eyes a lot. Philosophically I drifted into libertarianism, and in 2011 moved to Tennessee with my family. In Tennessee, there isn't even party registration, you just go to the polling place on primary day and tell them which party's ballot you want. In 2012 I pulled hard for Ron Paul, so I got the GOP primary ballot and voted for him. I got to work in the polling place, so I did what I could to talk people into voting for him too. My favorite people there were a couple of 80 year old ladies that worked with us at the polling place, they were bigger Ron Paul fans than I was. I didn't officially work for Paul's campaign but I damn sure unofficially worked for it.

After 2012 I became disaffected with the libertarian movement, there were a growing number of questions I had that they either ignored or couldn't answer, so I kept up my search and started drifting left. By 2013, when I joined this forum, I found socialism to be an appealing ideology and that's what I advocate to this day. I also advocate against partisanship, and my own ballots look very colorful to this day, as any given election I've voted pretty equally for Republicans and Democrats, and where possible I've voted for Greens and Libertarians.

[Common]

My father was a lifelong democrat but not for any of the reasons of today. He staunchly believe that democrats fought for workers rights and work place safetly and unions.
Today he wouldnt be a democrat.

I was a democrat then independent and I voted back and forth depending on the candidate. I disagree with so much of the democrat parties agenda that although im a registered independent I cant think of a single democrat candidate I would vote for right now today.

[MisterVeritis]

You left out "after their deaths" and yes I consider it a slur you $#@!ing idiot.

Why would that be a slur? If I intended to be mean voting Democrat before death is damnable. Afterwards, it is just corruption.

[Perianne]

Like what?

@Mister D
I looked up a better answer than I could have thought of myself. It is here.