A lot of things led me down the journey of being where I am today, politically. But I want to say why I am where I am.
1. You could say I grew up in one of the best times to be a kid. The 1980s. We had Reagan in the White House, Alex P. Keaton was on TV and the popular entertainment wasn't vicerally angry at conservatives at it is now. Sure, it was biased as hell, but as I said, Reagan could outmessage them all. It was awesome to be a kid then.
2. It all changed for me in the 1990s. As I went through High School? (Montgomery County, MD) I began to realize something: First, most of the teachers and staff were hoplessly liberal and saw me be horribly tormented by my peers...and they did nothing. What got me through? Reading stories about survivors of the Hanoi Hilton and the Bataan Death March. Sure, what I went through was easy compared to them. But one said something that stuck with me today.
(I paraphrase)
"So you broke today. Get up..resist tomorrow!"
And so I did.
The few teachers that did anything? Conservatives or libertarians to a man and woman with one exception, and she was just a decent person. By the time I graduated, I despised public schools, and didn't think much of those educating our kids. I love education reform and anything that breaks the back of this liberal lobby.
3. I finished college (dear lord the indoctrination I went through) and got married. My first wife was mentally ill and I worked my ass off on what meager salaries I could get with a bachelor's and no real experience. Meanwhile..those agencies from DC where we were living at the time? Predatory as all hell. They overmedicated her, then did everything they could to prevent me from learning just what her medication history had been even when I had power of attorney.
Worse, they got her a day job stocking breakrooms at a local contrator. She did that job, but lost it due to cutbacks. She did what anyone in that situation would do. She filed for unemployment. They sued her for said unemployment because hidden in the fine print of the agreement she had signed when she got the job was her signing away her unemployment benefits. Yes, I learned. Liberals and their supposed love for the downtrodden is little more than keep them poor as a voting bloc. And they are predatory bastards about it.
4. Our marriage imploded and I lost my job and my grandfather in the same year. I moved in with my parents in Northern VA and soon was working for Gunowners of America. I worked there when Sandy Hook happened. Wanna know who the worst callers were? Liberals. I literally got death threats.
So, lets fast forward to now. Everything I have learned politically is that liberals will lie, cheat, steal, and act like jerks because...they can. Most conservatives and libertarians I know, even when we disagree, we can find polite disagreement and common ground. Liberals have called me a traitor (I'm Jewish), a Nazi, and heaps of other things.
By the end of it. It's only made me more secure in my beliefs. But I want to know, what made you who you were?
1. You could say I grew up in one of the best times to be a kid. The 1980s. We had Reagan in the White House, Alex P. Keaton was on TV and the popular entertainment wasn't vicerally angry at conservatives at it is now. Sure, it was biased as hell, but as I said, Reagan could outmessage them all. It was awesome to be a kid then.
2. It all changed for me in the 1990s. As I went through High School? (Montgomery County, MD) I began to realize something: First, most of the teachers and staff were hoplessly liberal and saw me be horribly tormented by my peers...and they did nothing. What got me through? Reading stories about survivors of the Hanoi Hilton and the Bataan Death March. Sure, what I went through was easy compared to them. But one said something that stuck with me today.
(I paraphrase)
"So you broke today. Get up..resist tomorrow!"
And so I did.
The few teachers that did anything? Conservatives or libertarians to a man and woman with one exception, and she was just a decent person. By the time I graduated, I despised public schools, and didn't think much of those educating our kids. I love education reform and anything that breaks the back of this liberal lobby.
3. I finished college (dear lord the indoctrination I went through) and got married. My first wife was mentally ill and I worked my ass off on what meager salaries I could get with a bachelor's and no real experience. Meanwhile..those agencies from DC where we were living at the time? Predatory as all hell. They overmedicated her, then did everything they could to prevent me from learning just what her medication history had been even when I had power of attorney.
Worse, they got her a day job stocking breakrooms at a local contrator. She did that job, but lost it due to cutbacks. She did what anyone in that situation would do. She filed for unemployment. They sued her for said unemployment because hidden in the fine print of the agreement she had signed when she got the job was her signing away her unemployment benefits. Yes, I learned. Liberals and their supposed love for the downtrodden is little more than keep them poor as a voting bloc. And they are predatory bastards about it.
4. Our marriage imploded and I lost my job and my grandfather in the same year. I moved in with my parents in Northern VA and soon was working for Gunowners of America. I worked there when Sandy Hook happened. Wanna know who the worst callers were? Liberals. I literally got death threats.
So, lets fast forward to now. Everything I have learned politically is that liberals will lie, cheat, steal, and act like jerks because...they can. Most conservatives and libertarians I know, even when we disagree, we can find polite disagreement and common ground. Liberals have called me a traitor (I'm Jewish), a Nazi, and heaps of other things.
By the end of it. It's only made me more secure in my beliefs. But I want to know, what made you who you were?
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