Reading the chapter on politics.
People constantly label me a conservative. It's part of that all-or-nothing mentality. The majority of my opinions are liberal. I'm an atheist. I'm in favor of legalizing pot, prostitution, and gay marriage. But because I hold a couple of conservative opinions about national security, the death penalty, and how the government wastes my tax money, I'm considered somewhere to the right of Reagan. I just get behind whatever I think is the smarter idea; I don't arbitrarily pick a political team. Depending on where they grow up and what their parents' beliefs are, people get assigned to either the blue team or the red team and have to hate everything the other guys stand for. But it's not the Red Sox and the Yankees. I don't need to be forced into picking a side. I root for whichever team has the plan that's going to fix shit and against whichever one will continue to hold us back. So let me take a moment to bash both the left and the right, starting with the left
He's born and raised in L.A., and everyone on this board is from the South so you can flip the "most of my view are...but people label me" statement around, and the point still stands.
I agree with this guy much more than I agree with the left or the right, or really even the Libertarian party (i.e. national security, the death penalty).
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