Have you become more or less politically liberal in the last 4 years?

[bloom]

Poll question: Have you become more or less politically liberal in the last 4 years?

Interpret liberal however you wish...

I expect that many people are more active - but I'm wondering more about views (which might have changed with more knowledge, etc).

[WLKjr]

1. Far more active, far more liberal

So damn right :D

[are_we_united_yet]

2. Hell

I didn't have to move at all. But the relative change is enormous.

[noamnety]

3. Way more active, moderately more liberal

I'm far more pro-union than I used to be. Funny how a couple of lay-offs and refusals to honor contracts will do that to a person.

[cally]

4. I'm not sure if the parties have moved more right

or I'm much more liberal. I would fit into some of the Democratic parties of the past without the cronism, of course. Now I'm a radical left winger.

[Solar]

5. I converted after 2000

so Im definitly more liberal.

[FDRrocks]

6. I moved right...

Hell, I'm voting for John Kerry. :)

[salib]

7. I do not think I am more or less Liberal

Just more pragmatic. Too much is at stake.

[Scootman78]

8. I'm as liberal as I was ten years ago

I really didn't get interested in politics until my sophmore year of high school ended in 1994. My dad always raised like himself, a liberal. But it wasn't until I worked on a democratic campaign in 1994 (for the great & late Florida Governor, Lawton Chiles) that I really understood how Republicans think (Hate, Lies, Greed).

I think a lot of people have called themselves more liberal since Bush II took over the White House. That's not a bad thing because its good for people to think for themselves and realize that its wrong to be evil. However, it really makes me wonder if they're actually liberal, or if they just hate our current Resident.

Guess what I'm saying is that I hope the liberalism gained within the last 4 years by these people doesn't go away once Shrub leaves the House for good.

Judging by most of the posts on DU, there are a lot of liberals. I'm sure some agree there's a lot more hate used by some (maybe a side-effect from crossing-over to the light side). I'm about 60 posts in or so and so far, no lies or greed seen. So that's good.

Rest In Peace Walkin' Lawton. If you live(d) in Florida, you'd know who he was. He's from my town of Lakeland, so it meant even more to serve on his campaign (even if I was a runt in the organization).

[FDRrocks]

10. The people who went through development during the Clinton years

are going to save the world from itself. I'm 21 and I'm hard pressed to find someone my age who likes George W. Bush and doesn't chew tobacco and drink every night and never can comment on any specific issue(and apparently not brush thier teeth, and yes, that fits maybe 4 people I know).

I know I'm gonna massacre a quote I heard somewhere, right now:

"Change for the better does not occur vote by vote, but grave by grave."

Sounds barbaric, but it is true. Humans are way too conservative by nature, not like I'm one to talk. We can either follow the lead of the baby boomers and generation X (which I think has failed us, politically) or set another example, like Hoover and FDR coaxed the greatest generation into showing how great they truely are.

[Trailrider1951]

24. Hey, Scootman, a question..

Didn't Gov. Chiles die suddenly and make way for satan's brother to ascend to the office? What's the story there? Enquiring minds want to know!

[ogradda]

9. i'm a little more liberal

i've always been liberal tho - my mom says i started when i was 4 years old :)

[madfloridian]

11. I am *considered* far more liberal.

Yet I have not changed. Something else must have happened. Hmm...mmm wonder what?

The Iraq invasion made us more passionate, but not more liberal. We are the same, yet now because we oppose this illegal invasion we are considered to be fringe on the left.

This is matter of perception and the media spin, the reality is that we are no different.

[bloom]

13. To some extent...

I was always liberal leaning.

I think that I am more liberal partly because of knowledge I have acquired - through different sources than I would have normally gotten information - and partly as a reaction.

To some extent I feel like I have had to move left just for balance.


Maybe there are people who read this site and think - "OMG - that is nothing like me" and seek out right leaning sources. :shrug:

This site has helped me think through a lot of positions and consider why I think what I think.

[leftofthedial]

12. I am no more liberal

but I'm about to get extremely militant

[starroute]

14. I haven't changed much since I was in my teens

And that was 40 years ago.

When I was in high school, I would sometimes say I was a creeping socialist. These days, I'd be more likely to call myself a creeping anarcho-syndicalist, since I did lose most of my faith in government long about 1968. But although I've fine-tuned my sense of where I'd like to see things go and how it might be possible to get there, I don't think my relative position on the political spectrum has altered one whit.

I want to see bloated institutions like government and corporation dismembered -- their functions partly handed over to computerized systems and partly devolved to individuals and small groups. I want it made impossible for anyone to have the kind of power over me and mine that our current rulers enjoy. But I also recognize that this has to be accomplished in a gradual and organic manner, since to do it in any other way would be to perpetuate the sort of authority structures that need to be eliminated.

My personal political philosophy is largely a synthesis of Karl Marx and Edmund Burke -- and that's something I arrived at when I was 16.

[UdoKier]

15. The same, but more actively and forcefully so.

I felt the same ideologically, but I sued to back down sometimes to just get along, but I NEVER back down now. I don't care. I don't want these people to thing everybody agrees with the rightwing crap that is being presented as "the center" today.

[Algomas]

16. When I was ten years old..

I was sent home from school early the day Kennedy was shot. That same year I found out that Santa Claus is a cruel hoax. I have been skeptical and cynical ever since and my experiences and studies over the years have only affirmed my worst fears.

We are ruled by vampires.
Pass it on.

[Piperay]

17. I'm more moderate

than I use to be. I used to be much more liberal but due to the neo-cons taking control I have moderated my stand on gun issues in particular. I really believe if there wasn't so many guns out there the RW would have taken away all are rights but they are afraid to.

[quaker bill]

18. About the same

I became more "liberal" the day Ronald Reagan took office.

[bloom]

19. kick

:kick:

[Willy Lee]

20. Just as liberal,

but it is manifested in different ways. USed to get arrested for protesting, now I'm in more of the "tear down walls and try to relate" mind set.

Still fighting the good fight, tho

And still getting into occassional trouble for my "protests"!

[TahitiNut]

21. I think ALL of us (over 40) have been dragged to the right.

When I saw all the 'conventional whizdumb' about who was electable and who wasn't, it was clear to me that the Quisling Gene is alive and well in all of us. The political 'left' of the 70's is all but dead. What was regarded as right-centrist in the 70's is now on the 'left.' Kerry and Clark are both Eisenhower Republicans. :shrug:

[bloom]

22. "Eisenhower Republicans"

I agree - and I have to "laugh" when the Republican strategy is to paint Kerry as an extreme liberal :crazy:

But at the same time - living through the Bush* era has put me more in touch with my liberal beliefs, more connected to activism and I find that things that I once considered to be radical, I now consider to be the truth.

[JanMichael]

23. I've moved to the far, far, far, Left.

Mostly in the economic realm. As far as personal proclivities go, like smoking, drinking, mating, eating, drug use, etcetera I've changed little, smoke em' if you've got em'.