My story politics

I have never shares my real political views online until I started this blog in late summer 2022

As a kid I was pro Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. In 1992 I supported Bill Clinton because George HW Bush sucked. In 1996 I endorsed Bob Dole for President because I didn’t want any President to serve more than one term, in 2000 I supported Bill Bradley and when he dropped out I supported George W Bush since Bush said he was a compassionate, and he was involved in pro sports like Bill Bradley

I became a proto Liberal 2.0 in 2003 due to me turning against the Iraq War and becoming anti war especially do to me seeing the Dixie Chicks being bullied for being anti war by warhawks like Denis Leary etc. I viewed pro Iraq war celebrities and politicians like wrestling fans view heels. I viewed anti war celebrities and politicians like wrestling fans view faces

For the rest of the 2000s I was anti war (which I still am today but for the reasons Mark Twain was against war not for the reasons I was against war then), hated then President George W Bush and his neocon Republican allies, supported John Kerry and then Presidential candidate and later then President Barack Obama, had a lot of proto Liberal 2.0 views etc.  

As a proto Liberal 2.0 in the 2000s, whenever a pastor or a conservative commentator came on TV and said something that went against my proto Liberal 2.0 beliefs, I would go nuts and throw my remote at the TV so to speak.  So I would mostly find proto Liberal 2.0 'safe spaces' to hear like minded proto Liberal 2.0 narratives like MSNBC (Keith Olbermann, Ed Schultz, Chris Matthews), CNN (somewhat since they were more ‘moderate’ back then), Democratic Underground etc. Despite this I still wasn't overtly political in the 2000s. 

At the 2004 DNC, I heard future President Barack Obama and thought he was better than John Kerry and even Howard Dean (I was a Dean stan and when he lost the nom to John Kerry I was deflated but I still supported Kerry even though I thought Kerry was a sell out). 

Obama also talked about unity among both political parties which made me for the first time in years, agree that maybe the Republicans aren't as bad as I thought.

Little by little I became more and more moderate. First it was me seeing how kids have it too easy nowadays via a inthe80s.com post, then it was me seeing the SJW nonsense in early 2007 about some sports thing and then me joining a Assemblies of God Christian community, then it was me reading some conservative forums in 2009. 

I further was poed by proto Liberal 2.0ness when Ashton Kutcher was WRONGLY attacked in 2011 for defending Joe Paterno (my first exposure to cancel culture other than during the Iraq War where anti war people were proto canceled). 

Then the crazy brand of proto Liberal 2.0ness became Liberalism 2.0 in the 2010s which cemented me as right wing adjacent 

For the rest of the 2010s, I'd fight against SJWism, cancel culture, animal rights freaks and warmongers. 

I also would spoof mainstream right wingers online on social media and even via random emails like Stephen Colbert spoofed right wingers on his show (I was right adjacent not right wing). This started around the early mid 2010s and ended a few years ago

I even was ok with right wingers like Ted Cruz (if not for Bernie I would have been a Cruzite) , and not rabidly against Donald Trump (Trump sounded way more liberal on most issues than the chud reactionary conservatives I loathed in the 2000s decade like Fred Thompson, GWB, Jim Gilmore, Rick Santorum, etc. Trump conned me), Peter Thiel, etc

The Republicans were moving left at that time which included them supporting small government, being non interventionist,, and less harsh on LGBTQ issues than Republicans use to be

As I transitioned from being right wing adjacent to being a Left winger, I slowly embraced politicians I do today, like Bernie Sanders . I then was open to Bernie Sanders in 2016 becoming President

When Bernie dropped out and it was apparent he would not be on the ticket, I was BernieorBust (but I didn’t vote in the 2016 election). It was depressing that Bernie Sanders couldn’t even be the Democratic presidential nominee in either election. Liberal 2.0ers stacked the deck against him (including Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post) .

I do not support Donald Trump and I only said ‘give Donald Trump a chance’ (like Jimbo Wales and Hillary Clinton did in early 2017 though me being Bernieorbust made that easier) when Trump became junta leader. This was due to me still having a slight Cruzite streak in me and Cruzites being less Anti Trump than NeverTrumpers

Trump's fake victory fell neatly within the framework of the famous dictum: "Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism."

Though I was becoming more and more Left wing,  I eventually opposed Donald Trump’s juntaship like Cruzites did (like Carly Fioruna and later Kellyanne Conway did) while at times being like Ben Shapiro on Trump (even though I was Bernieorbust)

I am not Anti Joe Biden. I am ok with him and the job he is doing. 

My maternal grandparents, my mom’s godmother, my friends Wade S and Pat C from middle school, my mom’s friend Evelyn R, my friend Jamie H from my former 2007-08 Assemblies of God church 20s somethings group, my former neighbors Ethel C, June L, and Peter H my mom’s oldest brother’s wife’s oldest sister Kathy and her husband Ed all voted for Joe Biden in the 2020 US Presidential election

I realized that the answers to my Right wing adjacent concerns were found in the Left Wing (Left of the Democrat party), as I touch on here so I switched from being right wing adjacent to Left Wing a few years ago

I am privately slightly to the right of my writings in this blog and elsewhere (like Karl Marx was to the right of his writings). Maybe I am privately Cultural variable with a touch of center right (center right by Canadian, Australian and European standards) conservative, Keep in mind I am part Tankie and until the 1960s, Tankies were socially conservative. My private views are not the same as my personal, systematic, deep down, legality wise, subconscious views

I sort of reject every program, idea, abstraction, ideal or theory that is placed above life and individuals as a construct to be served. 

This rejection thus is, of rigid organized religious, , the State/Nation (though Minarchism is ok), idpol, etc., but also of Anarchism, Primitivism, Communism, Freedom, Reason,  Individuality, etc. when these become ideals to which a person is to sacrifice himself/herself, a person’s desires, aspirations, dreams etc. 

I support using ideas, theoretical analysis and reason capacity to abstractly think critically as tools for realizing society’s aims, for reappropriating life and for acting against everything that stands in the way of this reappropriation. 

This includes the rejection of easy answers that come to act as blinders to a person’s attempts to examine the reality someone is facing in favor of ongoing questioning and theoretical exploration

I am not really down or a fan of organizationalism, meaning the idea that any organization can represent exploited individuals or groups, social struggle, revolution or Anarchism ideals. 

Therefore I also am extremely wary of all formal organizations (parties, unions, federations etc) which, (due to their programmatic attributes), take on such a representative role. 

This does not I do not support the capacity to organize the specific activities that are necessary to the revolutionary struggle, but rather I am extremely wary of the subjection of the organization of tasks and projects to organizational program formalism. The only task that has ever been proven to require formal organization is formal organization development and maintenance

Actually I command everyone reading this blog to vote Democrat and even Liberal 2.0 for acceleration reasons because the more the Democrats and Liberal 2.ers are in power the more people will see just how incompetent they are.