Political affiliation inquiry

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

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. Not really. I had a vague sense of Irish nationalism, but in my early teens I was kind of preoccupied with getting Sarah McKenna to notice I was alive.

2. Yes. Republican (but not in the American sense).

3/4/5. The older I get the more progressive I get.

6. That they are evil, pestilential people, not to be acknowledged or listened to, unless such acknowledgment is a precursor to locking them in a cold, damp dungeon, whether they can spend the rest of their lives explaining their conservative ideology to the rats who are gradually gnawing off their fingers.

Boru

[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:

[brewer]

1-3. Stick it.
4-6. Shove it.

I'll write you down as capitalist Republican.

You forgot reactionary.

[Apollo]

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?

Always have been a liberal and mostly have voted democrat, although consider myself independent to keep some semblance of objectivity –– but the way republican party has gone, I doubt it's necessary now.

I've grown a bit more conservative over the years as opposed to years when I was younger. I think bleeding heart liberalism, wokeness, cancel culture etc are unrealistic and do harm. So I guess I've grown more centrist in my approach over the years.

I'm in my early 50's now and a first generation immigrant from a country that has mostly known military dictatorship so I have no concept of "Voting as young adult". I became US citizen back in mid 2000's and wasn't young adult anymore.

[Rev. Rye]

I've grown a bit more conservative over the years as opposed to years when I was younger. I think bleeding heart liberalism, wokeness, cancel culture etc are unrealistic and do harm. So I guess I've grown more centrist in my approach over the years.

It’s a bit similar in my case, but since I still acknowledge that the left’s overall goals are good (or at the very least the lesser evil) and the more jackasstic parts of the left are more on social media and less actually making policies, I tend to consider my ideology more realist left than centrist.

[HappySkeptic]

I'm not American.

I hold no political ideology. I've voted for all major parties in the past. I often vote people out more than I vote them in. After 5 or 10 years, a party usually takes the electorate for granted, and the scandals mount as the people who are only there for the grift get caught.

If I were in the U.S., I would've definitely voted to remove Trump and anyone who held on his coattails.