Since joining the Atlas Forum, have you moved more leftward or rightward?

[Oakvale]

Sad!

Is that the new shtick on AAD? You guys never cease to impress.

Ironically my second edit is the only part of that post which isn't even slightly tongue in cheek!

I don't even disagree with that part of your post. I just wish it could make the same point without the dumb meme.

Look, I'm fully aware I might have to go into rehab when this election's over to stop saying Sad!

It's sad!

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

It's nearly been 10 years since I first posted on this forum and, shockingly enough, I'm basically the same person in terms of my politics. I'm still very passionately opposed to inequality in all of its forms and very concerned about class. I'm now a cultural liberal/radical, whereas I was pretty culturally conservative in the past, but this was more because I was constrained by my hometown's toxic politics. I remember this because, even when I was opposed gay marriage, I told people to stop calling others "fags" or whatever and felt that people's hatred towards gay people was disgusting. I just couldn't imagine supporting gay marriage because it was universally deplored in my community.

I'd note that I'm discussing "values" here. My policy positions have changed because..I'm not a dumb pre-teen and have read hundreds of books/thousands of articles since then. However, I don't think that my basic orientation towards politics has changed. I called myself a socialist when I was 12. I'm still a socialist.

[Mr. Smith]

Slightly rightwards socially.