I liked Jimmy Carter. I thought he was a man of the people in 1976. Of course I was only in 6th grade at the time. When I was older I could not stand the Dems love of communism. I voted for Regan in 1984 and never looked back.

Pretty much apolitical until I started listening to shortwave broadcasts in the '50s and noticed that Radio Moscow and our TV networks sounded disturbingly similar.

The clincher was several college instructors who kept preaching how wonderful Socialism and Communism were, and would give low grades to those who disagreed.

Voted Nixon/Lodge in 1960.

Grew up shooting, hunting, fishing and trapping. So no... I cannot relate to having the mental illness that is democrat.

I am 19 and I proudly voted for Trump in my first election. I grew up watching dvds of South Park and that started my hate for the leftist. I remember when I was seven during the 2004 elections my sister had a John Kerry sticker on her desk and the amount of disdain I had for her because I could not comprehend how someone would like Kerry.

The Founding Fathers are the good guys, they are my heroes. 95% of the people I trust and respect are the founding fathers. I believe in true freedom; Life, Liberty, and Property. If I had to describe me politically I am a combination of Federalist and Anti-Federalist beliefs. After reading things like John Locke, Ayn Rand, Thomas Paine, and all the Founding Fathers and their writings, speeches and related books (Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers, and all the founding documents of America) I just don't understand how someone could be a modern day Democrat or would even want to be.

I think many liberals who turn conservative end up further right then those who start out on the right. Once you've seen them from the inside the ideas from the idealog, and realized you've been played for a fool it becomes more.... Personal.

fuck-goof. I like that. You're certainly not part of the problem.

I was more liberal when I was younger.  Hard to continue such a mindset when you grow up and realize how the world works.

Nope, the "light" has always been on for me. My daddy schooled me politically early on. He went thru what you are. He said he should have realized that the party left him long before he left it.

In time the light will get brighter and brighter and you should understand why conservatives feel so rabidly like they feel.

But, you are right in the fact that all republicans are not the same. Some are deeply conservative and some are not.

Are you a Christian? If you are, then you will be more conservative, than just if you are a constitutional conservative.

Listen to Rush Limbaugh, he is a good educator. He is hated by the left because he explains things and how they relate to each other. This is NOT where I got my education, but he might help

you. Some people can never be helped to learn, they refuse to learn, they will not pull their heads out of their asses. Most liberal professors are like this. They refuse to see the light. They

embrace socialism and communism, but cannot point out a country where it works for the people. Most progressives do not understand that globalism just means one world govt. If you only

have one vote in a whole world of votes, how could you hope to have the govt, you think you should have? there are men out there that want to control the entire world. If you google the richest

people in the world, their names will not be on there. How does this happen? How can a man have 1000 times more money than the top ten people that show up combined and not be on that

list? It is called control. How and why do people not believe that a handful of men could control the world? Well for one people make fun of you and say things like tin foil hat B.S.

Nobody wants to believe it, but it is nothing new and they have been getting closer and closer to having it all. Trump is a real problem for them. They can give campaign money to the clintons

and obamas and Mcstains, but not to all They need people to do their bidding. Most politicians sell us out for it. Why do you think they want our guns? To control us. Why is the U.N.so anti

gun? What is the U.N. mainly for? Global govt. Free men have guns..only if they are willing to use them to keep or win back their freedoms. Hopefully Trump will help us keep them at bay.

I was in my early 20's but I was a drug user as well. I got clean and it was like a switch went off and I suddenly had different views. I guess that's why so many liberals are the hippie type.

I was a classical liberal when I was young, with paleocon trimmings. Human rights for all and a constitutional republic to preserve them, what could possibly go wrong?

A decade and a half later, I'm a post-libertarian who believes America was a mistake.

Former militant socialist here. When I was a teenager I would have had no qualms about slaughtering practically everyone on this site. In fact I looked forward to that sort of thing.

Then a complicated and strange series of events revealed the deep and profound bankruptcy of my mindset. So I decided to reassess. Helped that I had also moved from Eugene Oregon to southern Idaho. Funnily enough even though I was a socialist, since I also had a revolutionary mindset I was pro gun. Guns led me towards reconsidering right wing ideas. One thing led to another, nowadays I consider myself an anarcho capitalist and I'm quite ashamed of the person I once was. But I feel that I have to acknowledge that persons existence.

I've always been squared away.  I worked for the Republican party in high school.    I submitted pro gun papers in high school.   I enlisted as a combat medic at 17.    One of my first colleges was a conservative Christian college.    I hung out with the poli sci head who was a Reagan consultant, though I was nursing, mil sci, engineering, and bus.    

I am now a retired Combat Engineer and Light Infantry officer now working as a systems consultant for a top 5 health insurer.

I've never been a fuck up.

Was a democrat but never a liberal.  My family was 50/50.  Every democrat I knew owned guns, went to church, had a private sector job, and bitched about welfare abuse. It was something discussed and debated but everybody agreed on certain points.

That ended with Clinton and the divide grew larger with Obama. Every one of my friends and family voted Trump except my parents. The 90s were very good to my family and they could not let go of the Clinton romance

I've gone from extreme right on everything to to a social little-L libertarian Constitutional Freedomist. 

Nope. I didn't vote until the 2008 election officially but since probably 8th or 9th grade I sided with conservative positions.

My parents never voted in their lives but lean libertarian I would guess.

Oddly my dad only owned 3 guns until the AWB came into effect, 2 of those were single shot and the other a rg .22 revolver. I bet in 94 or 95 he bought 10 guns, sks, mac-90 etc. Nothing super great it woke him up, and certainly planted the seed in my mind when I was 10 years old at the time.


My wife was never paid attention to politics until Trump came to the scene.

I was a liberal, or as much as one could be as a teenager, until 9/11. That day, I did a complete fucking 180.

I used to be fairly liberal when I was young, partying and playing in a rock band.  Met my (then) conservative wife and things changed, got into guns, became increasingly more conservative etc.  She, on the other hand, has become more liberal over the years, go figure.

I went from a socially liberal authoritarian to a socially conservative authoritarian. Feels similar tbh fam.

I was fairly apolitical until early 20's. Step-dad would talk about commies in the government and media. But I never cared. I've come to hate commies on my own, later in life

Nope always been a conservative. Before the age of 23 I didn't really pay much attention though. I voted Mcain and Romney and now Trump. I only regret Mcshitstain

Nope.

My father is a small business owner. He's from central PA and grew up rather poor and without a father. He has always been extremely fiscal conservative and very right leaning politically. He's pretty tolerant of day to day stuff, but he has no time for the left. My mom is very similar, she is a live and let live type, but politically is pretty far right. My little sister is right leaning and my older sister is a fucking loon. It's so odd, her husband is conservative and i love the guy, i actually get along with him much better than my sister.

I'm embarrassed to say, but in 2000 at the ripe old age of 20, i asked my dad "who should i vote for?". He told me Bush, and i did. I wasn't very political in my youth.

John Adams wouldn't have liked me as a young'n.

I member me as a little kid supporting Nixon, while my mom made phone calls for that guy in the wheelchair.

Alex Keaton didn't come around til I was in my 20's.  It wasn't him that turned me.

I dunno if I just wanted to piss off my parents, or if I was always smarter than the average bear.

I've never, ever, been a liberal or a commie, or a progressive, or a whatever.

ETA: #MAGA

NO, I always despised the Left no matter what they called themselves, Democrats, Liberals, Progressives, Socialist.......

they are all the same......the frakken enemy. I don't think my beliefs have changed since I was 7 or 8.

Pretty much how I have been all my life.

They always just struck me as whiney crybabies who wanted something for nothing too often.

Although I did always vote for my next door neighbor who was the Township Supervisor in my old neighborhood.  

Voted for his boss the mayor also for about 25 years.

They were democrats but did very well bringing us back from a failed credit rating to a AAA rating.

Not your typical democrats but they were democrats..............they were different about the gimme, gimme shit and did not like that but they were still democrats and I always voted for them.

I'm not even telling my story it would send most of ya into a feeding frenzy that would have have a dozen banned and a number of time outs......

Let's just say I've listened to NPR my whole life.  Grew up in a conservative Dem home when the Dem's were considered the "conservatives" and went HARD LEFT.  At some point I started working my ass off making some money and a whole bunch of it went to pay taxes.  I started paying attention then.  

If your not a liberal when you're young you have no heart.  If you're not a conservative when your older you have no brains.

So yeah, BTDT.  

Now developing nothing but contempt for the whole system.  I've finally figured out that all BigFed.gov wants is everything you've got.  Ditto for BigCorp, BigMedicine, BigState, and BigChurch.  It's all a scam and illusion.

Mental disorder. I never had it, despite not having a care in the world regarding politics until I was well into my 30s.

I've always been conservative.  Rural, small town Nebraska kid and Eagle Scout.  

But in 1976 I picked up my first issue of Soldier of Fortune magazine.  I'd heard about these guys and wanted to check them out.  That's when I first met Peter G. Kokalis, Rest In Peace Pink Panther.  I read that issue cover to cover.  Every word on every page.  Advertisement and article.  

When done I thought "Wow!  These guys haven't met a communist they didn't want to kill!"

I voted for Reagan in 1979.  What he said just made sense.  I'd been watching the peanut farmer since his election and was not impressed.

About 1979 or 1980, probably the later, I picked up another copy and read it cover to cover, every single word.

"Wow.  They've mellowed out in the past few years."

Then I realized guys like this with a lifetime of experience fight communism don't mellow out in three or four years.  


They didn't change their views.  I had changed my views!!!!!

When the hell did that happen!  Hth did that happen?!

Without being aware of it I guess that reading that first issue opened my eyes that communism isn't just some benign political difference of opinion but instead a violent, oppressive world view.

And I've never looked back.

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I voted for this guy.

Was born conservative.
Never looked back.

When I was a teenager and into my early 20's I was a statist. I saw the error of my ways
and now I like freedom.