Raise your hand if you've changed your political ideology recently

Knightskye

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There seems to be distrust over Barr because he used to be a neocon. Some people on this board still associate him with that title.

So my question is, have you changed your political ideology? Were you a neocon like Barr? Were you liberal, as I was?
 
I was a democrat until I "woke up" from my ignorant bliss. Now, officially, I'm independent, but I did switch to Republican so I could vote for RP in the primaries.
 
i was -nothing- and did not plan on being anything until seeing all the stories during the ron paul take over of digg and then when the debates started..

:)
 
I was raised in a typical Republican family, and regretfully voted for George Bush in 2000 and 2004. Right before the 2004 election is when I started waking up. From there until then I've gone through an ongoing transformation. Voting in 2000 for Bush was automatic for me, though in 2004 I was no so comfortable with it. The 2004 election allowed me to decide to never again vote out of fear. Since then I've learned a lot about libertarian philosophy. I'm not sure that term completely defines me, but it's the closest label that fits me.

The issue with Barr for me is that he seems to be headed in the right direction, but is not there yet. I hope one day he will be, but in the meantime I fear that The Libertarian Policy sold out for a candidate with name recognition. I was already a Chuck Baldwin supporter after Ron's campaign ended, but Barr's actions recently toward Ron Paul have showed him to be lacking in the character department.
 
I was a socialist Democrat until about 2 years ago. But I was only 19, growing up in Northern California. Thats my excuse and I'm sticking with it. ;)
 
I used to lean more toward the left, but always had a huge disdain for the two major parties. I voted for Nader in 2004. Afterwards, I drifted away from liberalism and became apathetic until the Good Doctor hit me like a bolt of lightning!
 
While in 04 I voted bush, and was mostly a neocon I still had an underlying libertarian ideology I just didn't realize. On foreign policy I was definitely neocon, but RP woke me up. BTW I just want to thank Mark Emery for turning me on to Ron Paul. Thats right the editor or Cannabis Culture showed me RP while he was still on his exploratory comity.
 
I was a Mike Gravel supporter (in the Democratic primaries) :eek:

Then I shifted to Dr. Paul early on, over a year ago.

Interesting how the beginning of my understanding of economics coincided with my shift over to libertarianism.
 
I was a young naive democrat in 2004. After realizing that the Democrats were not doing the things I supported them for (end war, protect civil liberties), I got into Libertarianism. It took about 2 years of passive research to really 'get' Libertarian ideas. At that time, Ron Paul came along, and I became entirely convinced of the principles of liberty. Now here I am. I feel like a new person.
 
Trusting him 100% on his changes he is still only kind of libertarian but not a neocon. He is way better than what we have in Washington but not as libertarian as I would like. I would say a couple years ago I was fairly libertarian but was for the war and considered myself a republican and hated democrats.
 
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I was apathetic towards politics. Though being raised in a Democrat household I wanted Al Gore and then John Kerry to win, but luckily I was not old enough to vote at the time. :D
 
When I first heard about Dr. Paul on a message board, I went to see his site. I loved everything he said, from totally free markets to States' Rights. My only issue was his disdain for the war, but I was willing to listen to him. I figured he was a really small player and I wouldn't hear about him ever again, so I put the thought to the back of my mind.

After about three months, in August of 2007, I started to look into Dr. Paul again. I had been questioning all of the things previously that I knew didn't make logical sense, but that I was told I couldn't question. Once I started to think about these things, making the cases for and against them, I found myself on the side of Dr. Paul.

This is from whence I came.
 
Well, I guess I used to be a libertarian who supported Bush because he seemed better than the token socialist.:rolleyes:

Uriel999 said:
While in 04 I voted bush, and was mostly a neocon I still had an underlying libertarian ideology I just didn't realize. On foreign policy I was definitely neocon, but RP woke me up. BTW I just want to thank Mark Emery for turning me on to Ron Paul. Thats right the editor or Cannabis Culture showed me RP while he was still on his exploratory comity.
Click to expand...

You hear what happened to Marc Emery? Even though he's a Canadian living in Canada the U.S. took him out for selling pot seeds.
http://www.westernstandard.ca/website/article.php?id=2705




hmm...
 
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