Political affiliation inquiry

[Rev. Rye]

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. Yes, I considered myself a leftist.
2. Yes, Democrat.
3. If it has changed, it's only because I've become more disenchanted with certain aspects of identity politics and have become more acutely aware of a dangerously Manichean attitude emerging on the left, one where anything we do is good because we're fighting the bad guys. Admittedly, the latter part is probably a natural outgrowth of any ideology that has or is actively pursuing power, but if we can't keep it in check, I can't expect us to do much better than Revolutionary France once we actually have power. That said, given that A) I still consider the goals of the left to be, by and large, a good thing, B) these types are mostly active on social media and aren't actively driving policy, and C) the Right is moving further right to the point where open racism is becoming acceptable, I'm still firmly on the left, even if it's more a realist left stance. I doubt anything short of the Twitter "SJW" stereotypes taking over the Democratic Party and the Republican Party suddenly becoming reasonable will change that.
4. N/A. Still 30.
5. N/A. Still 30.
6. I think that would depend on how far away these ideologies are from me, and how  fervently they embrace the actively dangerous parts of their ideologies.

If you're at all curious as to what I mean by disenchantment with identity politics in #3, well, look no further than this Chapo video: