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#32
10-10-2007, 08:41 PM
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Re: What has influenced you to your current position in politics.
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[ QUOTE ] How have you come to acquire the opinions that you currently have? [/ QUOTE ] Long and painful analysis of my own hypocrisies. [/ QUOTE ] Yeah, Long and painful analysis of Tom's hypocrisies. Cody 
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#33
10-10-2007, 09:17 PM
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Re: What has influenced you to your current position in politics.
Anyone who is paying 40% of their poker earnings to the gov't and is winning any decent amount of money should hire a better accountant.
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#34
10-10-2007, 10:05 PM
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Re: What has influenced you to your current position in politics.
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am i the only one whose parents (as far as i can tell) have never had the slightest interest in politics whatsoever? i mean i have never talked about anything remotely political with my parents, and they definitely don't vote. [/ QUOTE ] Up until I got into politics my parents never spoke on any major issues going on in the world. Like after 911 happened everyone in my house was basically "whatever, I gotta go to work no time to watch TV" so I pretty much found my views without them. Now that I am a huge politard though I have gotten them into it and we have politard discussions at every family dinner.
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#35
10-10-2007, 10:14 PM
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Re: What has influenced you to your current position in politics.
My political positions have been shaped by a lot of things. One which I never want to admit is my room mate who like to constantly play devils advocate anytime we watch the news or do just about anything. He challenges every single idea I have and forces me to look at things from the opposite side.
This forum has played a big role. I spent a lot of time with people who have no problem admitting that they are socialists. Even though I am not the most adamant supporter of the free market this board has given me a extremely well reasoned and logical representation of a free market capitalist. People like borodog do a good job of giving sound opinions and is not a dick about it. Also my political science 110 teacher was extremely influential in how I go about looking at different political views. He taught me that you can take something on face value you have to as he would say "put some meat on them bones" and add depth to any argument or idea that you hold. Also my older brother. He never really gave me any advice outside of "don't just answer the questions, question the answers" which I like to feel like I have followed.
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#36
10-10-2007, 10:20 PM
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Re: What has influenced you to your current position in politics.
I've been a libertarian since I took my first micro-econ class in college (apathetic before then) but I didn't buy into anarchism until I started reading this forum and pvn was tooling everyone in debate after debate. This was about a month before Boro's famous "any anarchocapitalists out there?" post. I remember having a lot of debates vs. BVCVP when he was a rightist and hmkpoker when he was a leftist.
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#38
10-11-2007, 12:01 AM
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Re: What has influenced you to your current position in politics.
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My story is essentially the opposite of yours. I became the left-winger that you see now as opposed to the unreflective moderate that I was as a youngster, in part, because I had a lot of right-wing instructors whose ideas, theories and principles struck me as wrong. Attempts to persuade me that libertarianism or "religious rightism" had the opposite of the intended effect. In fact, if I had to identify one point as 'the turning point', it would have been the course I took in microeconomics (with a clear right winger, even for an economist). What pushed you to the right pushed me to the left. [/ QUOTE ] Interesting. Want to share your logic in where you are at and how you came there?
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#39
10-11-2007, 12:03 AM
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Re: What has influenced you to your current position in politics.
Being in the Army, going to West Point, and thus rebelling against it once the build-up to the Iraq War started (not one of "our nation's best and brightest" that I knew of were questioning it, it was gung-ho city).
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#40
10-11-2007, 02:42 AM
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Re: What has influenced you to your current position in politics.
Originally, it was my parents. My parents are conservative christians and own their own business and that led me to despise government regulation. I read Freakonomics and that changed my mind on abortion. I finally realized how wrong it was to force my morality on other people.
Recently this forum has had a huge influence on me. I would consider myself a libertarian, more than anything now. AC is very interesting, but I'm not completely sold on it for various reasons. I think the biggest thing that this forum has taught me is how ignorant I was/am to soooo many things. Also, I would like to thank PVN, BCPVP, Morobot, Iron, and Borodog for posting interesting topics, and having discussions/debates that I find entertaining and incredibly informative.
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