Growing up in Northern California both of my parents were lifelong democrats, and so were most of my friends and their parents. I always just figured that the compassionate, and intellectual path was to vote Democrat, and so in the first presidential election where I could vote that's exactly what I did; It was 2008, and I voted for Obama.
Between 2008 and 2012 something happened though. I became increasingly disillusioned with the behavior I saw from my democrat peers. They were supposed to be the tolerant ones, but they were absolutely intolerant of a certain makeup of people. On top of that, Obama was not proving to be the peacetime president he had claimed to be.
Something wasn't adding up. I had been raised with the personal values not to judge others, and that as long as someone's lifestyle wasn't threatening you that you should let them live. I also was taught by example that frugality and living within your means were very important. If those things were so important for me, surely they must be important for the government too, right? Why were no politicians espousing these ideals?
There was one though. Like so many others I began my real journey towards Libertarianism with Ron Paul. I gobbled up his speeches and watched every video of his I could. That opened the floodgates and I then began watching Milton Friedman and the Free to Choose series which led me to Thomas Sowell, reading Atlas Shrugged and so much more in recent years.
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