For over thirty years, I found politics really fascinating and important.
Now, I'm beginning to completely loathe politics, and find it more and more useless every day.
This.
Anyways, I guess when I was first becoming politically aware, I had an interesting mix of views-
I guess I was the populist/moderate version of Newt Gingrich. Fairly conservative and hawkish but for wanting the super-rich to spread more of their wealth and for the deregulation of nuclear power and human cloning expirements.
Then, I became more left wing as I learned that the Religious Right were total dicks, it was OK to be gay and that there were too many "special interests" on the right. Eventually, I came to the ephiphany that with the war on terror and the decline of popularity of traditional liberalism, that there was pretty much no hope for economic populism and that progressive efforts were best spent on defending civil rights and liberties and that perhaps through fewer societal barriers, many more people would be "absorbed" into the free market.
Eventually, I learned that far too many people on the top had no real interest in moving over and letting others on to the feed trough. A couple of years later, we ran out of money. At this point, I guess I am what you would consider an Anti-Left Liberal.
I'm pro-choice, anti-super rich, anti-SOPA/PIPA, anti-PATRIOT act, pro-PublicOption, anti-deathpenalty and pro-gay but despise absexual feminism, Eminent Domain, Hate Speech Legislation, gun control, nuclear power regulation, think social security is open for discussion and initially supported Iraq and still think Libya was the right thing to do. I was very gung-ho on Afghanistan and now I don't care.
