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TheDeadFlagBlues
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« Reply #25 on: January 22, 2017, 03:58:29 PM »

I am what I am. Have been what I have been for many years.

The world, though, has become very hostile to people like me. I hear that.

Why not pull a Keynes and, in the defense of liberalism, become supportive of left-wing measures? It's probably too late in the US but it isn't too late to save the basic framework of liberalism elsewhere.
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« Reply #26 on: January 22, 2017, 07:10:44 PM »

A lot more liberal, especially on economic issues.
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« Reply #27 on: January 22, 2017, 07:41:14 PM »

Also this. I'm getting ready to lace up a pair of jackboots and find a black shirt in my size.
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« Reply #28 on: January 22, 2017, 07:56:55 PM »

Very slightly more liberal, but in a more general sense, I've gotten more partisan since then.
I am still basically slightly center-left or something.
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« Reply #29 on: January 22, 2017, 08:07:07 PM »


This and

Very slightly more liberal, but in a more general sense, I've gotten more partisan since then.
I am still basically slightly center-left or something.

this are much more accurate.

I guess compared to 4 months ago, that'd mean further left...but it's all just a drop in the bucket compared to my rightwards lurch from 6 years ago.
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Mr. Illini
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« Reply #30 on: January 22, 2017, 08:42:59 PM »

The rise of Trump has pushed me further left
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« Reply #31 on: January 22, 2017, 09:49:49 PM »

A little more libertarian on a couple of social issues, but still very much conservative overall (especially in Australia), and a bit more tuned out of politics in general.
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« Reply #32 on: January 22, 2017, 09:54:10 PM »

No change.  The parties have changed though. 
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« Reply #33 on: January 22, 2017, 11:22:47 PM »

Slightly more liberal, in particular on environmental issues, one of the few domains in which I share common ground with many of Trump's staunchest critics.

I agree to an extent. Being from Florida, I want to see our coasts protected and I fear some Florida congressmen may try to change our pristine waters from crystal blue to brown. I won't let that happen.
Also, While there has been no significant change I have grown more tolerant of other views and I would say I have become more of a"bleeding heart conservative" in regards to many issues. I am still very very conservative.
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« Reply #34 on: January 22, 2017, 11:25:42 PM »

More left and more conservative.
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« Reply #35 on: January 23, 2017, 09:51:52 AM »

About the same but incredibly disillusioned with politics.
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« Reply #36 on: January 23, 2017, 10:28:18 AM »

I've drifted towards the left but in a conservative direction, if that makes sense.

I get this and I think that it summarises my position as well.  Back home you've got a (Westminster) government that wants to dramatically change the country in ways that I find really rather troubling (the creeping privatisation of the NHS and schoolds south of the border and the governments rather dismissive attitude towards doctors, a government that's willing to talk about expanding selection in secondary education breaking down the general "lets not talk about grammar schools" consensus that existed up until recently; although they've walked back on it lots of the worse stuff from it but there was lots of just awful stuff announced at the last Tory conference that was just so foreign to me - hell, even Brexit although I'm a little biased there) and honestly I think a lot of the arguments against that are rather conservative in that we're fighting to protect victories from the past.  Sure its not really something that you could really describe as "conservative" in the political sense but I think that it makes sense...

I actually think that its a problem that the left have: as long as we're having to fight for the status quo and our victories of the past (which all are very important mind: we shouldn't let them go to waste just so we can get into power against quicker) it makes it harder for us to sound radical and offering solutions that actually work since we're having to spend a lot of time defending the status quo.  Its sad really, and something that I don't have an answer for...
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« Reply #37 on: January 23, 2017, 11:39:40 AM »

More liberal.
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« Reply #38 on: January 23, 2017, 01:20:06 PM »

More conservative.  Particularly my views on gender politics.
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« Reply #39 on: January 23, 2017, 04:38:21 PM »

Before the election? I became slightly more socially and economically conservative, especially in regards to "PC culture"? Over the past month? Slightly more leftist.
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« Reply #40 on: January 23, 2017, 04:44:01 PM »

     More conservative, but also more disaffected with politics.
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« Reply #41 on: January 23, 2017, 07:43:38 PM »
« Edited: January 23, 2017, 07:45:22 PM by Senator Scott »

On the whole, I would say that I've moved firmly to the left on economic as well as social issues, but in actuality it's a bit more complicated than that and it's why I've turned cynical toward political changes.

In the context of the current US political climate, I doubt there are any political solutions to our problems that are susceptible for the long term, much less achievable in the short term.  If "economic growth" continues to be the maxim and that allows for unchecked population growth that the rate of science/technological progress cannot keep up with (as well as the continued decay of the environment), then there is nothing the government will be able to do once Mother Nature steps in.  And given that we have a world economy which is built on the virtue of living comfortably as possible whilst leaving nothing for future generations in the process, there's no reason to expect the economy to become sustainable on its own.  And by the time it does (after it is forced to), so much of the planet will have been destroyed, completely and permanently, that the living standards of your average poor family in the 1800s will look like a utopia.

So what do we have to bet on that will spare us from this destiny?  Technology, not government policies.  But I'm confident that humans will manage to outrun any progress we see in that area that it won't be enough.  And all I can say to that is I truly hope I'm wrong.
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« Reply #42 on: January 23, 2017, 08:27:40 PM »

"More cynical" is probably the best descriptor
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« Reply #43 on: January 24, 2017, 01:41:58 AM »
« Edited: January 24, 2017, 01:44:09 AM by Senator Leinad »

Over the last few months slightly to the left. Mostly on LGBT issues, but also becoming partially more anti-Republican Party (to the extent that was possible) in the wake of the "#NeverTrump Movement" loving Trump since he won (well lots of them), and becoming slightly more skeptical of religion (see: me shifting further left on LGBT issues).

Of course, I have not really had a major change in my views since I joined in mid-2015. Just minor shifts in magnitudes, importance, and "feel," if that makes any sense. The main period of my views evolving was from 2011-2014, before then I basically just automatically agreed with my parents' conservatism.
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« Reply #44 on: January 24, 2017, 03:38:01 PM »

No real change; but slightly more conservative on fiscal and econmic issues.
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