Politics

This page was way tl;dr. Let’s try this again:

I went from Democrat to Republican to Democrat to Green to Libertarian to Anarchist (for the lulz. Kinda).

The big D & R never fit right, sort of like finding this cute shirt that you like except it’s a little too snug across the chest or the armholes are too big. After switching around between the two parties, I had one of those big old blessing (lol) in disguise moments: I found out that one of my “very best friends” – along with several other people – wanted me out of my position in my university’s College Democrats chapter. Why they went behind my back instead of talking to me and asking me to step down (which I would have happily done) is still beyond me.

Several years later, I still can’t shake the nagging feel it’s because, even on the collegiate level, the party doesn’t want anyone with an inkling of radicalism in a leadership position and would rather have weak-willed individuals who will simply parrot off the party line. That experience completely killed any further desire I had to remain in the “gee, I really hope shit begins to change really soon” party. (My decision was solidified in late 2009, when history replayed itself with another campus group, but the same players.)

So I sent off a few emails and I finally tore off the shackles of two-party oppression. I was sick of the hypocrisy and the claims that Democrats were so omg! different! from Republicans. I was sick of the claims that Democrats are so much better than Republicans because they don’t pull the scummy shit that Repugs do. I got sick of the thought that Republicans are the only ones who act in a hypocritical manner. And the biggest punch to the balls about that whole mess is that it proved to me that low level arms of the party are nothing but a microcosm of the national level DNC.

A little bit more reading and whole helluva lot more angst later brought me to where I am now. I’m disillusioned with any real political “party.” Deciding which Republocrat candidate is “best” reminds me too much of cliched jokes about women deliberating for hours over “eggshell” versus “beige.” The Green party is a clusterfuck, the Libertarian party would rather compromise on its supposed “principles” than boot out the Teatards, and both of those minor parties are becoming more worthless every day. So fuck it. I’d rather not be aligned with the likes of Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Wayne Allyn Root, or Ralph Nader. I’d rather just spend my time devouring various feminist, queer, historical, etc., theory, put on my bullshit detector, and suss it out on my own.

But since I lean most heavily left-libertarian, here, have a blog ring to click on. Cause we kickin’ it old school.