changing personal political beliefs

Have you ever gone through a drastic change in the politics that you support?

I have, but i think it's mainly because i'm still relatively young and learning new things and the way i interact with the world is constantly changing. within the last 7 years i've gone through the following changes:

democrat/liberal

democrat/socialist

socialist/communist

anarcho-socialist/anarcho-syndicalist

anarcho-primitivist/green

individualist anarchist

anarcho-capitalist/market anarchist

minarchist/libertarian

Somedays i think i have it all figured out, and then a year later i'm embarrassed about the stupid things i used to believe.

especially when i have a tendency to voice my opinion, it's not fun to have to answer for things you used to voice support for but now do not.

at this point though i think i've found a political home so to speak, but give me another 7 years and we'lll see where i'm at...

 

also i know a lot of young people who have this problem when it comes to religion and spirituality. i don't, but maybe they can understand where i'm coming from.

 

its a part of growing up; politically I went from
Democrat
Anarchist
Libertarian

Religiously I went from
agnostic
wiccan
pagan
athiest
eclectic

 

lol, we took the same political journey? cool.

what's eclectic?

 

building your own path, perhaps taking a little bit from different teachings and religions.

 

Politically I went as such:
Liberal
Conservative
Green

Religiously:
Catholic
Agnostic
Catholic
Agnostic

 

so basically just lapsed catholic?

 

lol, pretty well. I'm fairly apathetic towards religion...Even as a Catholic I was.

 

Democrat
Republican
Democrat

Now I realize they're all full of shit and make campaign promises they have no chance of fulfilling. Now I vote for who I think is the best, even if he's an independent and has no chance of winning. My sister tells me I'm just throwing away my vote and that I should vote for the lesser of two evils, but I feel I need to show support for the people fighting to make this a better world.

Catholic
Maybe Agnostic, I don't know.

Although I believe in a God, and can care less about Jesus, I no longer believe in Religion.

 

I am very opinionated as well and also have a tendency to voice my ideas. For the most part, my views are not all that shape-shifting and drastic in their nature compared to my views in the past. If I don't know something for certain or feel as though I am not properly informed to manufacture an opinion of my own, then I make it known that I am not an expert on the subject - but my views are what they are at this moment in time.

I have pretty much kept my over-all political views the same. I've always had a strong sense of what justice is, what it means to be equal and how I understand resolution in the face of conflict. It's kind of a guiding beacon that I have within myself that trickles out to what I say when I participate in political discourse.

I believe in innovational methods and efficiency when it comes to helping people. So in that respect my views will always be changing to better suit what I feel is ethical within the political realm.

My views on religion tend to be more paradoxical than any other rational thought that passes through my mind. I grew up Catholic, and my religion has been a wonderful influence and benefit that I have enjoyed having in my life. However, I don't believe in God nor do I support a plethora of its ritualistic doctrine. I have never believed in God as far back as I can remember as a child. But I have earned a sense of spirituality by experiencing a journey of faith through a path set out before me by the Catholic Church. Does that make any sense?

There is value to the religious views that I have experienced, however I don't feel that my religion holds any weight in the majority of my political opinions.

 

catholic
athiest

conservative
libertarian

 

anybody else like chris rock?

prostitution? I'm liberaaaal.
Crime? (nyc) conservativeeee

 

voting for the candidate YOU believe in is the right thing to do... its people who see it as a throw away who ruin it because they choose not to vote for the right candidate either.

 

sounds cool, any links for more info?

 

"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong." Bertrand Russell

I tend to lean towards this quote.

Peace and love

 

Another quote, perhaps kinda long-winded:
"The man who has a certain...belief but fears to discuss it, lest it may be proved wrong, is not loyal to his belief, he has but a coward's faithfulness to his prejudices. If he were a lover of truth he would be willing at any moment to surrender his belief for a higher, better, truer [one]." William George Jordan

I think it's one area where conservatives and liberals are deeply divided. Liberals are more willing to discuss beliefs openly, and are more apt to change their belief if confronted with sound and logical rebuttal. Conservatives are part of some club that has an arbitrarily defined moral code, and are being disloyal to it by being willing to change beliefs, masquerading stubbornness as consistency.

 

:lol:

seriously, there are a lot of areas where liberals differ from conservatives, but this isn't one of them.

 

we might have differing definitions of conservatives and liberals. I'm not talking about repubs and dems. I'm talking about people who rely on a pre-established code of values vs. people who rightly determine their own values on a regular basis. To me, it's the defining characteristic

 

yeah to me it's not, they both have pre-established values, they just happen to be differents sets.

 

Republicans stand for evil, corruption, manipulation, greed- everything that Americans think is okay after being conditioned to it during the eighties. Republicans stand for all the values that Americans now hold dear. Plus they have more balloons than God, and for a nation raised on cartoons, that tells you something. Anybody with balloons, they're okay. They don't tell you what kind of crippled people had to blow those suckers up. The Democrats have no agenda, and when they speak on any topic, they want to sound as Republican as possible while still finding a way to retain the pork.

-Frank Zappa​

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I stand by the words of Frank Zappa on this. I am neither Democrat nor Republican, but I would like to see the Republicans driven out this coming Nov.​

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As far as religion, spirituality, I started as Christian, gone from Taoist to Buddhist, even Hindu.​

Now, I consider religion is a drug. ​