I think it shows what an individual thinker you are, that despite your young age and (possibly) complete saturation in woke ideology (through university, etc..) you still stand by your beliefs and values and don't succumb to group think. This is probably much harder for young people, especially due to social media and the 'with us/against us' way of thinking, where your moral character is increasingly based on group identity and whether or not you subscribe to the latest cause or outrage. Many of us older ones are also finding this polarisation bewildering. I'm in my fifties now and have always been pretty left/liberal. But the goalpost has drastically shifted and I see a lot of my friends on the left (who are my age) also buying into the whole woke ideology and labelling those who disagree as 'bigoted' or something-phobic. Political discourse has increasingly become more and more divisive and toxic, and even the media cannot be trusted to be impartial. I find it really positive that there are young people, like yourself, who are questioning what's going on and looking at both sides and thinking critically, rather than just accepting every new trendy idea, and just following the herd! It takes guts to resist all that! I also feel that the old labels of 'left' or 'right' 'labour' or 'conservative' are becoming obsolete. Many of us are somewhere in the middle, with a mixture of left/right/libertarian viewpoints.
I wish people were more familiar with history. If they were, they'd now that propaganda is the role of the media. The first newspapers were political. Horace Greely, one of the most famous newspaper publishers, was a devout utopian socialist and probably a communist. (However, he later contributed to the bale of former Confederate President Jefferson Davis, who was imprisoned for two years without ever being charged. Northerner feared if they brought him to trial, the courts would find that secession was constitutionally legal.) Thomas Jefferson sent out anti-Federalist pamphlets and Hamilton sent out anti-Jefferson pamphlets. There are still newspapers that have Democrat or Republican in their names, although many have dropped them due to mergers.
In this case, I don't think the writer is "politically homeless." They know were they stand. It's seem more a case of young angst.
Nope …have felt no need to leave the Conservative party. We’ve known all along that Big Government is horrific and now others are seeing why that is true!
I think it shows what an individual thinker you are, that despite your young age and (possibly) complete saturation in woke ideology (through university, etc..) you still stand by your beliefs and values and don't succumb to group think. This is probably much harder for young people, especially due to social media and the 'with us/against us' way of thinking, where your moral character is increasingly based on group identity and whether or not you subscribe to the latest cause or outrage. Many of us older ones are also finding this polarisation bewildering. I'm in my fifties now and have always been pretty left/liberal. But the goalpost has drastically shifted and I see a lot of my friends on the left (who are my age) also buying into the whole woke ideology and labelling those who disagree as 'bigoted' or something-phobic. Political discourse has increasingly become more and more divisive and toxic, and even the media cannot be trusted to be impartial. I find it really positive that there are young people, like yourself, who are questioning what's going on and looking at both sides and thinking critically, rather than just accepting every new trendy idea, and just following the herd! It takes guts to resist all that! I also feel that the old labels of 'left' or 'right' 'labour' or 'conservative' are becoming obsolete. Many of us are somewhere in the middle, with a mixture of left/right/libertarian viewpoints.
I wish people were more familiar with history. If they were, they'd now that propaganda is the role of the media. The first newspapers were political. Horace Greely, one of the most famous newspaper publishers, was a devout utopian socialist and probably a communist. (However, he later contributed to the bale of former Confederate President Jefferson Davis, who was imprisoned for two years without ever being charged. Northerner feared if they brought him to trial, the courts would find that secession was constitutionally legal.) Thomas Jefferson sent out anti-Federalist pamphlets and Hamilton sent out anti-Jefferson pamphlets. There are still newspapers that have Democrat or Republican in their names, although many have dropped them due to mergers.
In this case, I don't think the writer is "politically homeless." They know were they stand. It's seem more a case of young angst.
Nope …have felt no need to leave the Conservative party. We’ve known all along that Big Government is horrific and now others are seeing why that is true!