Reply #52: It depends on what "liberal" means [View All]

[Inchworm]

I've always been eclectic. It was almost a necessary thing being the hustler I was in school. I sold everything from cinnamon toothpicks to hard stuff. As it turned out, football quarterbacks usually want the same things as the president of the AV Club.

As time went on I found that homeless people want the same thing as corporate executives.

I've voted smart since I was able, and I've always been progressive as in change stupid policies. That led to a "screw authority" mindset. Which led to me becoming totally politically active once I saw a police officer "dog kick" a sleeping man in the park, where I did my college homework, to tell him he couldn't sleep there. No warning or nothing, he just hauled back and kicked him hard in the back.

I almost got a felony charge out of that. Battery on a Police Officer. Fortunately, I was working with a political consultant in Miami who helped me out of that fiasco. I was in Vegas the next day waiting for tempers to cool.

I totally gave up on being active in politics when I saw, and was part of, the shit that politics is made of in 2000's election. I was still working for the consultant and was appalled at how each party tried to make votes say what they wanted them to at any cost. I lost faith in the process.

Sadly, 2004 went by without much notice for me because I felt the "parties" would do whatever again to skew things their way. Then I was pissed at the outcome.

And here I is. I'm as progressive as ever, pissed offer than a muther, and ready to make change happen in any way I can.

*whew* *breathes*

That was a lot of typing :P

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