Changing Political Positions

I love this, perhaps only for how well it pertains to me personally.

Since I was a teenager, I’ve been in favor of environmental responsibility, common sense gun laws, a woman’s right to choose, immigration reform, abolishing the death penalty, reducing “defense” spending and favoring diplomacy over war, racial equity, holding “news” organizations accountable for spreading bald-faced lies, a one-tiered justice system, and using science as the basis of policy-making.

Through the years, these values may have been considered moderately liberal, but there was certainly nothing about them that would have made people think of me as a “radical socialist.”

Until 2016, that is; that’s when Donald Trump went to work.  To the surprise and chagrin of most of us, he was fantastically adept at polarizing a nation and poisoning the minds of 74 million voters.