They say that folks who look like me and have a similar background to mine are usually very liberal in their college years but grow more and more conservative as they get older. That did not happen to me. Maybe it was because I kept going back to college but for me it was the opposite.
As my country has spiraled into a fascist abyss I have found myself growing more and more liberal. As many of my neighbors openly want to oppress more and more people, both fellow citizens and non-citizens alike, I have found myself wanting to grant more freedoms and rights and opportunities to more and more people who don’t look like me or have a similar background. As more and more of my neighbors literally embrace evil I have found myself feeling more compassion, openness, and empathy to those around me. Who woulda thunk it?
Unrelated to this questions, but coincidently related, I took an internet quiz yesterday. Remember internet quizzes? It was called the 4 Axes Test. One of the things it tested was whether your political leanings are left or right. Here are my results:
Inside the Red Head's Head 
Great Post,Loony Leftist!
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I will be taking that test!
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Us pinkos, commies and lib-tards have to stick together!
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I agree with you about having gotten more compassionate and realistic about social issues as time went by, and yet that test gave me less-radical results than you got–I think it’s because I tend to put the middle for many of the questions because they are phrased too simplistically (like in an ideal world, the answer would be hell yeah or hell no, yet in this world, the answer would be ‘it depends on what happens’. It is also weird they combine ‘skincare and cosmetics’, as if the fact that I like to have skin that is not leather means they expect me to dab it up with makeup too! Oh well!
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Interesting test. I found no surprise in the results
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I interesting post. I also find myself leaning more to the left, particularly on social issues like LGBTQ and women’s choice decisions. As I read your post I kept thinking of the other party, Libertarians. I think I read through their platform one time and rejected it. I wonder if it deserves another look.
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