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Post by EB on May 16, 2019 13:48:41 GMT
I know a lot of people here have already talked about this in the discord, but I figured it would make a great thread too.
My views haven't changed dramatically over the years, since I'm extremely boring. Childhood was mostly apolitical and then democrat since my mom and grandparents were democrats. In my early teens, I started to lean towards libertarianism, and in my later teens I leaned towards anarchism, ancap to be more specific although at the time was completely oblivious to all the different varieties of anarchism so didn't think of it as such. As an adult, I've always been left leaning but never felt compelled to figure out exactly what group I would fall into. I have strong views on certain specifics, but I'm flexible about most things, like how government should be set up.
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aaron
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Post by aaron on May 16, 2019 13:55:59 GMT
1991-2007: Dogmatic democrat 2007-2009: started talking to a Randian, quasi-libertarian, kinda hoped for a McCain win in the '08 election 2009-2012: read Rorty, abandoned any Randian sympathies, started hanging out with DSA types, as much for social reasons as out of conviction 2012-2016: largely apolitical, but located somewhere on the left 2016-2019: becoming more consciously left, though what exactly I believe I still don't know
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Post by Mātōnya on May 16, 2019 16:08:28 GMT
I was raised on a steady diet of conservatism from my father which I never managed to pick up on because my mother is fairly left-wing, perhaps something of a social democrat, and I have taken more after her. I don't think I had a single, cogent political opinion about anything until 2004 when I marched with students for same-sex marriage in Massachusetts (which was upheld, making Massachusetts the first state in the U.S. to recognize same-sex marriages). I largely forgot about politics after that until about 2007-2008 when I met some conservative Evangelical Christian graduate students from the Midwest who had come to the University of Massachusetts to study. They brought with them some ideas that didn't work well with the local culture. (For example, there's a women's health clinic in town, an LGBT dormitory, pride parades, hippie culture, Jewish and Muslim communities, Hindu and Buddhist communities, not to mention that Roman Catholics and Episcopalians are probably the biggest Christian communities around here.)
So around 2008 or so, I finally got into political discussions with people, mostly conservatives, taking a social democrat sort of position on most things discussed: functioning democracy, women's rights, addressing systemic inequalities, LGBT rights, social welfare, socialized medicine, and so forth. Around 2011 or 2012 was when I think I got involved in the internet again after many years of not doing much online besides talking to friends in private social media circles (including forums like this!), and I was quite distressed to discover conservatives, fascists, MRAs, and things like that, and I took positions against it, but did not have any organized political ideology. I guess I was a social democrat, but I wasn't even familiar with that term.
And since then I've probably remained much the same. The only unusual position that I have (by human standards) is that I unironically support matriarchy for humans and, in the absence of a social democracy running large-scale population areas, I guess I would support a kind of matriarchal communal society/tribal organization on a smaller scale.
TL;DR: I've been a matriarchal social democrat since forever, basically.
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Post by leonardtea on May 16, 2019 19:51:55 GMT
Pre-2013: I was largely apolitical, didn't think much too much about politics.
2013-2014: I was a Left-Liberal for the most part, but kinda the crass offensive kind when it came to social matters. You know, like how Family Guy is considered to be a "Liberal" show despite being shockingly dated and reactionary in many regards.
2015-2016: Some kind of Social Democrat or another.
2017 on: Became increasingly sympathetic toward Libertarian Socialism starting around mid-to-late 2016, first more sympathetic to non-market varieties but a tad later through interaction with the general group and reading on my own I started identifying with Individualist Anarchism. Nowadays I consider myself more of an unspecified Left-Wing Anarchist, however.
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