I was raised by liberal democrats in a liberal area. When you’re raised under a certain ideal, you tend to accept it without question.

Over the past few months I’ve been having an interesting experience which has deepened my understanding of the world, human thought and especially American politics. Bush was elected president when I was too young to be thinking about right or left as metaphors for thought. In 2004, my first election was the presidential election and I endured a baptism of fire into the American political world. To loosely quote Hunter Thompson, I was part of a grand wave of good vibes which we all believed would simply prevail.

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