My story
My story:
As a kid I supported Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. In 1992 I supported Bill Clinton because George HW Bush sucked. In 1996 I endorsed Bob Dole for President, in 2000 I supported Bill Bradley and when he dropped out I supported George W Bush. I was apolitical to politics in the 1980s and 1990s.
I became a Liberal Democrat in 2003 due to me turning against the Iraq War and becoming anti war and me seeing the Dixie Chicks being bullied for being anti war by warhawks like Denis Leary etc. 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 Lenin reasons I was against war then), hated George W Bush and his neocon Republican allies, supported John Kerry and Barack Obama, had a lot of liberal views etc.
As a liberal in the 2000s, whenever a pastor or a conservative commentator came on TV and said something that went against my liberal beliefs, I would go nuts and throw my remote at the TV so to speak. So I would mostly find liberal 'safe spaces' to hear like minded liberal narratives like MSNBC (Keith Olbermann, Ed Schultz, Chris Matthews), CNN, Democratic Underground etc. Despite this I still wasn't overtly political in the 2000s.
At the 2004 DNC, I heard Barack Obama for the first time. His passionate speech was unique and positive to me. He talked about unity among both political parties (this isn't the DUSA or RUSA but the United States of America) 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 rightward. 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 me joining a Christian community, then it was me reading some conservative forums in 2009. I further was poed by liberalness when Ashton Kutcher was attacked in 2011 for defending Joe Paterno (my first exposure to cancel culture).
When Barack Obama said he was against gay marriage in 2008, since I was still liberal it made me question my support for him. I still wanted him to win the election, but that hesitancy about him made me open minded to some anti Obama memes I saw about him online after he was elected (not offensive memes, but good natured, Dean Martin roast type memes).
After Barack Obama won in 2012, I finally became an Independent- Left Wing Paleoconservative (ex GOP branch), Social Democrat (Podemos variant), Militant Moderate (i.e Liberal-Conservative Populist I am anti politics) and Post Conservative who supports republicanism and Bull Moose Progressivism
What did it? I saw a conservative being bullied for their conservative stance on Twitter and I came to that persons rescue. From that moment on I became (and still am) my current positions most of the revolutionary progressive views that I held 2003-2012.
For the rest of the 2010s, I'd argue (mostly one sided) online against animal rights activists, neoliberal pro war activists (on Libya, Syria etc), SJWs, etc on and off on different platforms. I also had some Stephen Colbert like spoof accounts to tongue and cheek poke fun at myself for becoming so moderate and zealous. Some of this online keyboard warrior political activism happened after Donald Trump entered the Presidential race. But with Trump in the race, it became more focused, fun and meaningful.
In 2016 I became Bernieorbust in 2016 for the same reasons that Jim Webb didn’t endorse Hillary Clinton. I supported Donald Trump as President due to my respect for the office he held, and for R Reagan era Republican blind optimism. In 2024, I am BernieorBust and if Donald Trump is elected again I will once again support Donald Trump due to respect for his office, and that R Reagan era Republican blind optimism above (but this time without me empathizing with the NeverTrump movement). I will admit that I don't care for Donald Trump and I tell Republicans reading this to vote their concience in the 2024 election (even if that means not voting for Donald Trump).
Despite my change, I still like Bernie Sanders. I feel he would be the closest to enact my unique set of social and fiscal views (like me Bernie Sanders is an Independent, i.e Bernie is Independent Democrat though I am a Independent- Left Wing Paleoconservative (ex GOP branch), Social Democrat (Podemos variant), Militant Moderate (i.e Liberal-Conservative Populist I am anti politics) and Post Conservative who supports republicanism and Bull Moose Progressivism
But when those Dems cheated and gave Hillary Clinton the nomination, that cemented my Bernie or Bust change to vote for Donald Trump.
Donald Trump was unique and different he reminded me of when I supported Bill Bradley for President in 2000. I was refreshed to see that the Republicans finally moved back to being anti war or at least non neocon (perfectly embodied by Trump) and that Trump wasn't a far right nut on stuff like gay marriage and similar issues like Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Fred Thompson etc. Let’s just say that I obviously wasn’t anywhere near being on ‘I will kms’ alert (LITERAL understatement of the century) when Donald Trump's had his unexpected rise through the Republican primaries (thank you Russia!)
I use to go to Atlantic City as a kid ,teen and 20 something where I stayed at Trump Plaza, Trump Castle and went to Trump's World Fair and Trump Taj Mahal so I was familiar with him.
He was a very rich Casino owner to me. Of course I am still upset he went after Rosie O'Donnell. Rosie O'Donnell is an intelligent, beautiful, hard working person, a great parent and very entertaining actress. I am stoked she hates James Comey like I do
Plus so many other fellow Bernie Sanders supporters voting for him made it extremely times 10000000 easy for me to not to try to bribe Russia to rig the election for Hillary. I used Donald Trump as my consolation prize for Bernie Sanders not being the nominee like I do when my favorite sports teams or the sports teams I root for don't win a championship (ie like when my 49ers lost in the 2011-12 playoffs to the Giants, I rooted for the Giants to win the Super Bowl since I use to root for the Giants when I lived in NJ and reminded me of the 49ers by coming out of nowhere to be good)
I disagreed with Donald Trump over nearly every damn thing that he did and said as President since he is Donald freaking Trump and so he can only do bad things as President due to the satanic and sadistic wiring of his brain. I don't care for Donald Trump and I tell Republicans reading this to vote their conscience in the 2024 election (even if that means not voting for Donald Trump)
Donald Trump did a somewhat pretty Trump job as President (YMMV). Every time someone attacked him (TDS LOL) I disliked him less and less (maybe in a 'somewhat more than a Anti Hero' sort of way). Ironic thing is when I was a Democrat Liberal, I hated George W Bush, Bill Kristol, the Cheneys, Richard Armitage, Mitt Romney, Jonah Goldberg, Colin Powell (RIP) etc from the left , but since 2016, I hate them from the right but over things like war and non economic/social issue since on the economy and social issues I am still way to the left of even the most ‘liberal’ RINO on the economy and social issues
In 2020, I was so burnt out by politics in January, I ditched politics for the rest of the year and ignored the whole election from January until December. When I checked the election results in December, I wanted to find out that Donald Trump had lost the election but that Trump became a counter President to foil newly ‘elected’ ‘President’ Joe Biden in a newly implemented Anarcho Monarchy that was set up to replace our Consitutional Republic democracy but I found out that the MSM ‘called’ (LOL!) the election for Joe Biden so ‘major LETDOWN’ . While I had a open mind to Joe Biden being President (for like 2 seconds until I realized this wasn't the 1988 Joe Biden), I tore up my Biden Harris 2024 posters, billboards and shirts by the start of February 2021.
I am a work in progress as an Independent- Left Wing Paleoconservative (ex GOP branch), Social Democrat (Podemos variant), Militant Moderate (i.e Liberal-Conservative Populist I am anti politics) and Post Conservative who supports republicanism and Bull Moose Progressivism
I was hard core Democrat loon in the 2000s decade so, its going to take some time before I fully come around to being fully Independent- Left Wing Paleoconservative (ex GOP branch), Social Democrat (Podemos variant), Militant Moderate (i.e Liberal-Conservative Populist I am anti politics) and Post Conservative and supportive of republicanism and Bull Moose Progressivism
Joe Biden has done a not so good job as President. Nearly everything he does is to undo what Trump did. I have to read 'Biden is like Trump' or 'Biden is worse than Trump' things online not to feel outright depressed about Biden being President (since Trump was better as President than Joe Biden is as ‘President’. It's scary seeing all of the non moderate or impractical things Joe Biden does in office each day. Biden almost gets a below average grade for me.
The liberals have moved so far authoritarian, they would probably tar and feather the 2000s liberal version of me. However since I use to be one of them, I know exactly how liberals think and act better than most I people who are Independent- Left Wing Paleoconservative (ex GOP branch), Social Democrat (Podemos variant), Militant Moderate (i.e Liberal-Conservative Populist I am anti politics) and Post Conservative and who supports republicanism and Bull Moose Progressivism
Even if the Democrats and the fringe liberals are right on most things (LOL), because of the way they refuse to effectively communicate why they do what they do (which could help right wingers and moderates like me be open minded to some of their unique left policies), because of the way they attack, smear, censor, cancel and bully people on the right (I know its both ways but they are either worse or do it more or do it worse and more), and because of the way they look down on us right wingers and moderates and similar atrocities by them, I would still reject the Democrats and Liberals and continue to be just as I am now even knowing I was wrong.
In fact, if i found our moderate side was wrong about most things, I would force those things we are wrong about to make us right about them.
If our world or country ever ends up going 'backward' and is as conservative as it was in the 1950s or if the mid right wing or far right become as accepted, mainstreamed, influential and widespread as Liberalism currently is in our country, in that situation here is what I would do:
I would stop being an Independent- Left Wing Paleoconservative (ex GOP branch), Social Democrat (Podemos variant), Militant Moderate (i.e Liberal-Conservative Populist I am anti politics) and Post Conservative who supports republicanism and Bull Moose Progressivism and I would then be a politically syncretic mix (politically syncretic in the same way that the 2nd New Deal was politically syncretic) of being leftist ‘grifter’ (like Jimmy Dore), the type of LaRouchist that Dave Bautista/Bruce Springsteen/Chelsea Handler/Mark Hamill/Sasha Baron Cohen would be and a Liberal who would be as Liberal in that hypothetical future as I'd be if I had kept being a liberal after 2011 instead of turning to what I am now fused with Alt Fordism Lite and 1920s like Homeless Left (Homeless Left was between Social Democracy and Communism in the 1920s)
I'd only do this because I am an Independent- Left Wing Paleoconservative (ex GOP branch), Social Democrat (Podemos variant), Militant Moderate (i.e Liberal-Conservative Populist I am anti politics) and Post Conservative who supports republicanism and Bull Moose Progressiveness and thus hates politics . Once Liberals got our world back to being liberal , I would go back to being as I am now
In 2024, I am BernieorBust
I don't care about politics. I am apolitical. I have no perceivable political principles whatsoever. In the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s (mostly) and 2010s (mostly) I stayed away from politics (that apoliticalness I had back then is what people should be now and in the future since politics sucks). But since I got into political video games I decided to expand that into real life political 'games'.
I prefer a full anarchism and a self governing society with no government (or at worse a Night Watchman state like the UK in the 19th century), radical localism, Isolationism and people follwing the two rules (for hardened heart non Judeo Christians have them replace God with humanity, whatever God they serve, higher power, or whatever motivates them to live secular lives that are Christian like)
If I sound too conservative on some issues, its because I am part Militantly moderate and thus I am anti politics which makes me militantly want to find moderation between both sides in this divisive political climate we live in today to preserve order in the political realm. Liberal-Progressive-Leftist, Conservative-Fascist-Neocon, Libertarian, or Independent, it doesn't matter which label you are, you will likely be in disagreement at some point with me
Take every thing I write in this blog with a grain of salt. Also anything I write has a chance to be tongue and cheek and irony
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