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Do you think part of your political ideology comes from your own nature?

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I have always held very libertarian morals long before I knew what a "libertarian" was.

I read Ayn Rand in high school and it was like taking a look into my own mind. I've always thought the way she thought, before I knew who Ayn Rand was or what a libertarian was. It's just my natural tendency to support freedom.
I've always supported legalizing all drugs, i've always felt first responders should have to ask permission first to take someone who has attempted suicide to the hospital.

For some reason, I've always believed that the value of human life is determined by the individual.
Also doing lots of drugs didn't hurt either.
I mean, I think drugs are pretty cool, so it's natural I'd want them legal. I've never believed in saving someone from themselves. I've always believed "live and let live", even if doing so would result in someone no longer living.

I used to identify as conservative, but I can't because of the social conservatism and the war on drugs and the Christian-right. Those things are anti-freedom

What did hurt is the libertarian support for open boarders. I've NEVER supported that. I think the libertarian party is stupid as hell for supporting that. Democrats, I understand. They just want more voters so they want more people to come to America with nothing and get on government services to secure Democrat votes.
But impoverished foreigners usually tend to not be libertarian, so why the libertarians would support open boarders is beyond me. The policy benefits democrats. In no way does it benefit libertarians.
To me, if you wanna help foreigners, you can do it in two ways. One is to leave them alone and let them evolve on their own, the other is to invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity.
The way you don't do it is to let them come to your land and pollute your culture.

I identify as a Libertarian Nationalist, combing right-wing foreign policy and boarder policy with a libertarian approach to freedom and a pragmatic approach to economics.
And I'd say I've felt like this long before I knew what those things even meant
 
whateverdude said:
I have always held very libertarian morals long before I knew what a "libertarian" was.

I read Ayn Rand in high school and it was like taking a look into my own mind. I've always thought the way she thought, before I knew who Ayn Rand was or what a libertarian was. It's just my natural tendency to support freedom.
I've always supported legalizing all drugs, i've always felt first responders should have to ask permission first to take someone who has attempted suicide to the hospital.

For some reason, I've always believed that the value of human life is determined by the individual.
Also doing lots of drugs didn't hurt either.
I mean, I think drugs are pretty cool, so it's natural I'd want them legal. I've never believed in saving someone from themselves. I've always believed "live and let live", even if doing so would result in someone no longer living.

I used to identify as conservative, but I can't because of the social conservatism and the war on drugs and the Christian-right. Those things are anti-freedom

What did hurt is the libertarian support for open boarders. I've NEVER supported that. I think the libertarian party is stupid as hell for supporting that. Democrats, I understand. They just want more voters so they want more people to come to America with nothing and get on government services to secure Democrat votes.
But impoverished foreigners usually tend to not be libertarian, so why the libertarians would support open boarders is beyond me. The policy benefits democrats. In no way does it benefit libertarians.
To me, if you wanna help foreigners, you can do it in two ways. One is to leave them alone and let them evolve on their own, the other is to invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity.
The way you don't do it is to let them come to your land and pollute your culture.

I identify as a Libertarian Nationalist, combing right-wing foreign policy and boarder policy with a libertarian approach to freedom and a pragmatic approach to economics.
And I'd say I've felt like this long before I knew what those things even meant
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I don't know. I formed many of my political views by opposing my liberal 70's era teachers in high school and Jr High during the Carter years. I was all in on Reagan for about a decade, but that view fell out of my favor once he became a canonized icon of the Right. So, maybe I'm contrarian by nature. Or, maybe I actually pay attention to facts and adjust my views as new evidence emerges, while others just lean hard on their political ideology and refuse to adjust. :shrug:
 
calamity said:
I don't know. I formed many of my political views by opposing my liberal 70's era teachers in high school and Jr High during the Carter years. I was all in on Reagan for about a decade, but that view fell out of my favor once he became a canonized icon of the Right. So, maybe I'm contrarian by nature. Or, maybe I actually pay attention to facts and adjust my views as new evidence emerges, while others just lean hard on their political ideology and refuse to adjust. :shrug:
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I like things about Reagan, but honestly, I hate conservatives. The drug thing alone is enough to make me wish that bullet would have hit Reagan right in the head.
 
I think it comes from ones own experiences and also how gullible one is.
 
whateverdude said:
I like things about Reagan, but honestly, I hate conservatives. The drug thing alone is enough to make me wish that bullet would have hit Reagan right in the head.
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I wouldn't go that far, but it is fair to say that the man was far from the saint the Right likes to pretend that he was.

My intent with my first post was to point out that being fluid in political ideology may be more or less innate. Some of us refuse to buy into a specific mindset but rather follow along the lines of "see what works and what does not, and adjust accordingly."

Clearly, a reasonably large percentage of Reagan's ideas and policies did not work, and many have caused us much grief today, mostly because the ideologues refuse to adjust and toss onto the scrap heap of history the parts of his programs which were shown to be failures.
 
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