re: How did you develop your political beliefs?

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tduecen

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Good post.

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I really admired Ron Paul, and still do.

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Do you think Rand has a shot in the future?

You have a good point.

I should have clarified. I was mainly referring to modern US history.

1950's and onward. Programs like the Great Society and other welfare benefits are rearing their ugliest heads today, more than ever.

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Would you vote for Trump now, with him being so intensly loyal to the military? I'm jw because a few of my buddies that are veterans love him now, while they were lukewarm (more anti HTC) during the election.

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No.

Here's why:

1. He is disingenuous. And that reflects in his foreign policy approach. he views foreign policy through cylinders (see China comments when he's there and when he is not there) and there is no consistency. For example, his Jerusalem decision a week ago was might have played well for the best but directly contradicted the job we are supposed to be doing here in Iraq.

2. He's not loyal to the military. He plays to his base and he knows the key to tugging a republican heart is to appear to be pro-military. See his and the VP's publicity stunt on kneeling. I can give two shits about NFLK players kneeling. It's not disrespectful to me as a service member as it is made out to be. As I have said in the past, uniformed service members run from the anthem at 0800 every morning in bases across the country so we shouldn't be the pot calling the kettle black. Here's the deal: you cannot advocate for tax cuts AND drastically increase military spending (see his comments on growth). Fiscally, the numbers don't add up.

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Here's why:

1. He is disingenuous. And that reflects in his foreign policy approach. he views foreign policy through cylinders (see China comments when he's there and when he is not there) and there is no consistency. For example, his Jerusalem decision a week ago was might have played well for the best but directly contradicted the job we are supposed to be doing here in Iraq.

2. He's not loyal to the military. He plays to his base and he knows the key to tugging a republican heart is to appear to be pro-military. See his and the VP's publicity stunt on kneeling. I can give two shits about NFLK players kneeling. It's not disrespectful to me as a service member as it is made out to be. As I have said in the past, uniformed service members run from the anthem at 0800 every morning in bases across the country so we shouldn't be the pot calling the kettle black. Here's the deal: you cannot advocate for tax cuts AND drastically increase military spending (see his comments on growth). Fiscally, the numbers don't add up.

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This is all conjecture at best, and disingenuous opinion at worst, but you're stating it like it's indisputable fact. Anyone with half and ounce of intelligence is rolling their eyes when they read something like this, I hope you know that.

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uniformed service members run from the anthem at 0800 every morning in bases across the country

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Is this an AF thing? Don't recall the anthem being played.

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Is this an AF thing? Don't recall the anthem being played.

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Colors are played at every U.S. installation at 0800 every morning, during which they raise the flags.

I was born into a conservative Christian household so my early foundations were normal conservative beliefs.
In high school I was given a good civics and American history education, and coupled with finding out about Ron Paul on the Internet and learning further for myself, I drifted over into libertarianism, where I remained for a while.
In college I briefly flirted with some SJW/progressive libertarian shite but quickly came around.

Then a combination of complete impotence on the part of the Libertarian Party, the subversion of the Ron Paul wing of the GOP into a more socially conservative mold around Rand Paul and a couple other Republican Congressmen, and Gary Johnson being mostly a meme disillusioned me about the prospects of a libertarian ever actually getting elected. I stopped paying attention until Trump ran.

When Trump ran, I realized he was the best shot anyone disappointed with the establishment had at breaking through. I started following him, mostly as a joke, then started really listening and coming around to some more conservative stances I wouldn't have entertained before.
And researching the Clintons after that really opened my eyes as to the state of affairs.
I'd really like libertarianism to be viable, but the open hatred that the (((globalists))) have for normal, Western white people isn't going to be defeated by playing live-and-let-live. Now I'm a hardcore traditionalist, proud of my people and their history, trying to get as physically fit and learn as much as I can about who we are, and looking forward to the day when this political establishment is upended and leaders who don't have a hard-on for erasing white culture can take us in the direction we need to go.

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(((globalists)))

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Hmmm.