Political affiliation inquiry

[Mister Agenda]

If you wouldn't mind answering a short survey for me, it would be greatly appreciated.

1. When you were a young teenager, did you consider yourself affiliated with any particular political ideology? Which one?
2. When you were a young adult, did you vote? Democrat or Republican?
3. If you are older than thirty, has your political ideology changed? Explain if it has.
4. If you are older than forty, has your political ideology changed? Explain if it has.
5. If you are older than fifty, has your political ideology changed? Explain if it has.
6. What is your personal opinion of those who hold differing political ideologies than you?

1. Vaguely Republican I suppose, as with my family.
2. Republican, mostly because in Florida you had to declare a party and the Republicans had fewer things in their platform I didn't like that I thought they'd actually be able to pass. I wasn't a 'solid Republican'. I was a vet though, and Carter's botched Iran rescue was fresh in my mind.
3. Still a wobbly Republican, voted for Perot the first time he ran, voted for Dole the second.
4. Dole was the last time I voted for a Republican for president, I voted Republican down ticket about half the time. Republicans were too socially intrusive for me, poking the government's nose into people's private business. I became a Libertarian, even joined the LP, voted for the Libertarian every time one was available. Mainstream Libertarian, considered myself a 'Classic Liberal'.
5. Gradually started leaning closer to Democrat. It was clear that Social Democracies weren't always teetering on the verge of economic collapse. The economic playing field was unequal and I questioned if it was ethical to accept the status quo as a starting point. The economy seemed to do better under Democrat administrations though I attributed a lot of that to Republicans being deficit hawks when Democrats were in charge of the WH. Leading up to the 2016 election fact-checking my fellow libertarians highlighted a taste for conspiracies and lies about Hillary Clinton that I found repulsive. I voted for Johnson; but it was with a strong tinge of 'Clinton can't win in South Carolina no matter how I vote'. When Trump won; I was shocked. My remaining libertarianism was founded at least in part on the idea that a good majority of the people will make good decisions if you just give them enough freedom; and that it's best to vote idealistically than for 'the lesser evil'. After Trump became president, I became a practical Democrat. I agree with most progressive goals; I just think you need a moderate Democrat to flip a red district; and if we try too hard to get everything we want all at once we won't be able to get it at all.
6. Everyone is on a journey, everyone has differing experiences, everyone has differing capacities. I think Trumpists are lost, but they've been led astray by decades of propaganda tailored specifically at them and most of them are suffering from cognitive biases that prevent them from realizing it and would lose much of their social support if they did. It's like the Pentecostalism I was raised in: I'm fortunate that I got out, not everyone is so lucky.