What's your political evolution?

[Zappykins]

I started fairly republican/conservative. I used to love Rush Limbal – He would in a fair way criticize as well as praise Bush (the first one) and had sketches and jokes in his show. They were really funny. Then in the summer of 1992 I saw his TV show and realized he was serious. I thought he was joking when he said, “you don’t have to think, I will think for you,” but no, he was totally serious.

Then I caught Limbal blatantly lying about democrats and started to question all sorts of things. It eventually lead me to be more of a democrat/libertarian. I become more interested in buying stocks and mutual funds – which lead me to looking at how health care was in the USA – because the mutual fund was so, oddly, profitable. I went from anti universal healthcare to a reluctant supporter as I saw so much of the money people pay into it, used to pad others pockets. So much health care money in the USA is wasted on administration that I actually think the government would do a much better job. I still think people should be able to buy private stuff – like the police, everyone has access to them, and some people hire extra security.

Then, owning my own company, and having people work for me has made me more into someone of the ‘green’ party (yes the opposite of what most think.) As an owner I see so much exploitation of workers, in other companies, it’s quite disturbing. I’m not against people making a living, but when you make more money than your great grand kids could spend in their lifetime, every month, and your workers are barely making it, then I don’t mind those people, paying higher taxes, to help others get something basic like health care.

So not to the extreme, but the basic view:

Republican > Democrat > Liberal Libertarian > Green/Socialistic tendencies (like Universal Health Care)