I'm curious to hear all of your life experiences.

Were you liberal and now you are conservative? When did that happen?
Or the other way around? When? Why?

Do you know more people who have swapped from liberal to conservative in recent years? Or the other way around? Do you know why?

I'd truly like to know, as I have absolutely no clue what the hell is going to happen in like 4 days or whatever other than like... war?
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@vix I was apolitical most of my life. I always found politics boring. This was back when it was all about taxes and health care. This was probably because my Dad was always listening to AM talk radio when I was in the car with him and all I could hear was some angry guy ranting about some new policy or whatever.

Then there was the whole SJW movement and the rise of the alt-right. The SJWs kept infiltrating all the gaming and tech circles trying to make everything more "inclusive" even though there was nothing stopping women and minorities from being part of these circles anyway. I also realized that they wanted to censor the Internet and get rid of "hate speech". I started to embrace right-wing politics. I guess around that time you would call me a moderate conservative or Classical Liberal with Civic Nationalist values.

Then I realized that you can never have any government serve to your will and that the old America that the Classical Liberals and Conservatives want will never come back. I also found out that it is the government that causes corporations to become monopolies and crush competition including and especially when it comes to technology and the Internet. No matter how much you restrict the government, it will always become corrupt.

Now, I am an anarcho-capitalist (though I prefer terms like "voluntaryst", "individualist anarchist", or "panarchist"). My views align with those of Hans Herman Hoppe. I believe that people should be allowed to voluntary associate with whom they want to associate with through private property and contracts. This will allow people to do want they want with there lives without society falling into degeneracy.

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@xianc78 @vix I don't think ancap will ever work any more than communism, but I respect many of its proponents, as I respect also some monarchists, fascists and marxists.
I'm not sure anything at all can work long-term with things like ever-expanding populations, perpetual growth economies and so forth.
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