What do you guys think of my political platform?

[Anonymous]

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He's 18. Who knows?

I remember more than one person of OP's age who had similarly rigid, naive, idealistic opinions and turned out ok. OP is a mess now but there's hope for him.

OP here
Read Russel Kirks book The Conservative Mind. My views aren't mushy. I've developed my views over time by reading various authors of the intellectual Right. The people who change thief views during/after college have no foundation for them. My views may be tweaked, but there will be no big changes.

Yeah, I've known a couple of well read "Objectivists" who said the same thing at your age.

Are you only reading "authors of the intellectual Right?"

OP here
No. I've read authors like Marx and Marcuse.( even though I strongly disagree with them) I'm not afraid of the Left. I occasionally go through sites like Slate, Salon, and ThinkProgress for a laugh. Here's a few authors I enjoyed reading
Non-fiction
1. Pat Buchanan
2. Paul Gottfried
3. Julius Evola
4. Russell Kirk
5. Oswald Spangler
6. John C. Calhoun
7. Ben Franklin( his autobiography is very inspiring)
8. Martin Luther
9. John Calvin
I can't wait to start reading Francis Parker Yockey.
Fiction
1. Charles Dickens( my favorite fiction author)
2. John Le Carre( excellent espionage novels)
3. G. K Chesterton
4. Terry Goodkind( I enjoyed his Sword of Truth series)
5 Christopher Paolini r

[Anonymous]

OP here
I can't believe I forgot to mention Jonathan Edwards( my favorite theologian)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
He's 18. Who knows?

I remember more than one person of OP's age who had similarly rigid, naive, idealistic opinions and turned out ok. OP is a mess now but there's hope for him.

OP here
Read Russel Kirks book The Conservative Mind. My views aren't mushy. I've developed my views over time by reading various authors of the intellectual Right. The people who change thief views during/after college have no foundation for them. My views may be tweaked, but there will be no big changes.

All of the people you are writing to were 18 once. Many of us were well read, and quite a few of us thought we had it all figured out. But the fact is that life teaches you things that academics can't. Take homosexuality. You seem to have a big problem with it. But when you go to college, you will probably begin to spend time with gay people. Then you will go into the workforce and meet some more. Eventually you marry someone with a gay brother. And he seems to be a decent guy. So you think about the authors who told you that homosexuality was part of the decline of society, and suddenly you ask yourself whether their arguments were all that convincing. Because none of the gay people you have come to know seem to be bringing society down. In fact they seem like productive, stable contributors. They haven't turned America into hedonists. Instead they got married, got jobs, and raised families of kids who seem surprisingly well adjusted. Your experience does not match what the paleoconservatives predicted. And now you begin to read some of your libertarian authors, and you begin to side with them that none of this is the business of the government.

This is the kind of thing that all of us have gone through over time. You will, too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
He's 18. Who knows?

I remember more than one person of OP's age who had similarly rigid, naive, idealistic opinions and turned out ok. OP is a mess now but there's hope for him.

OP here
Read Russel Kirks book The Conservative Mind. My views aren't mushy. I've developed my views over time by reading various authors of the intellectual Right. The people who change thief views during/after college have no foundation for them. My views may be tweaked, but there will be no big changes.

Yeah, I've known a couple of well read "Objectivists" who said the same thing at your age.

Are you only reading "authors of the intellectual Right?"

OP here
No. I've read authors like Marx and Marcuse.( even though I strongly disagree with them) I'm not afraid of the Left. I occasionally go through sites like Slate, Salon, and ThinkProgress for a laugh. Here's a few authors I enjoyed reading
Non-fiction
1. Pat Buchanan
2. Paul Gottfried
3. Julius Evola
4. Russell Kirk
5. Oswald Spangler
6. John C. Calhoun
7. Ben Franklin( his autobiography is very inspiring)
8. Martin Luther
9. John Calvin
I can't wait to start reading Francis Parker Yockey.
Fiction
1. Charles Dickens( my favorite fiction author)
2. John Le Carre( excellent espionage novels)
3. G. K Chesterton
4. Terry Goodkind( I enjoyed his Sword of Truth series)
5 Christopher Paolini r

If you love Dickens, there is hope for you. He inspired much compassion towards the poor amoung the Victorians.

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Anonymous wrote:You had me until you wanted to repeal the 16th Amendment. If you could make a valid argument to do so, I would vote for you. Let me know.

OP here
If you look at my tax plan, it tells you why I want to repeal the 16th Amendment. I believe that any form of income tax is Socialism. I want to go back to the tax system we had before the 16th amendment. No income tax. I'd support a tariff based tax system. Prices of goods would be a bit higher, but there'd be no income tax, so it'd be OK.

Having a military is socialism, having police is socialism, having border patrol is socialism, having INS agents to round up and deport illegals is socialism... I guess you only like socialism when it suits you?

OP here
You and I have different definitions of Socialism.

You only recognize socialism when it suits you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
He's 18. Who knows?

I remember more than one person of OP's age who had similarly rigid, naive, idealistic opinions and turned out ok. OP is a mess now but there's hope for him.

OP here
Read Russel Kirks book The Conservative Mind. My views aren't mushy. I've developed my views over time by reading various authors of the intellectual Right. The people who change thief views during/after college have no foundation for them. My views may be tweaked, but there will be no big changes.

Yeah, I've known a couple of well read "Objectivists" who said the same thing at your age.

Are you only reading "authors of the intellectual Right?"

OP here
No. I've read authors like Marx and Marcuse.( even though I strongly disagree with them) I'm not afraid of the Left. I occasionally go through sites like Slate, Salon, and ThinkProgress for a laugh. Here's a few authors I enjoyed reading
Non-fiction
1. Pat Buchanan
2. Paul Gottfried
3. Julius Evola
4. Russell Kirk
5. Oswald Spangler
6. John C. Calhoun
7. Ben Franklin( his autobiography is very inspiring)
8. Martin Luther
9. John Calvin
I can't wait to start reading Francis Parker Yockey.
Fiction
1. Charles Dickens( my favorite fiction author)
2. John Le Carre( excellent espionage novels)
3. G. K Chesterton
4. Terry Goodkind( I enjoyed his Sword of Truth series)
5 Christopher Paolini r

If you love Dickens, there is hope for you. He inspired much compassion towards the poor amoung the Victorians.

Dickens, and stories like Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol are all about how things end up when it's all about unfettered capitalism. Some live in splendor, but most live in squalor and serve as the poor serfs and cast off parts of society...

[Anonymous]

Were you homeschooled, OP?

[Anonymous]

OP I wish you were posting under your username. Makes it much easier for me to find posts of yours to giggle at while tipsy.

[Anonymous]

OP what do you think of feminists and feminism?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Were you homeschooled, OP?

No, he went to public school and now is at a private high school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Were you homeschooled, OP?

No, he went to public school and now is at a private high school.

OP seems to have an amazingly skewed and biased worldview, as though everything he/she knows comes solely from indoctrination and a narrow selection of books, with zero real world experience.

[Anonymous]

I'd vote for Bush over OP. OP, your platform suggests a narrow and inflexible vision divorced from how the world really works. Sort of like an evangelical Taliban.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd vote for Bush over OP. OP, your platform suggests a narrow and inflexible vision divorced from how the world really works. Sort of like an evangelical Taliban.

+1

[Anonymous]

OP - you should have lived in Germany about 75 years ago. You would have fit right in!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP - you should have lived in Germany about 75 years ago. You would have fit right in!

OP is middle eastern and legally blind. He'd have gone straight to the gas chambers.