My Political Journey

Liberal, to Communist, to Authoritarian, to Conservative.

The purpose of this essay is to explain my journey through political ideologies so that hopefully those who read my other works will have a better understanding of why I think the way I do.

Past:

Although I’m an American from birth, I was born in China and grew up in Taiwan. My family moved to the US when I was fourteen.

It’s such a different culture over there and I will have to do a whole essay on everything I learned comparing Taiwan and America. But I can say here that being fully immersed in two distinct and unique countries taught me the importance of thinking globally. Also, Taiwan is independent. Just saying.

I only started thinking about politics after moving to the US, and mostly as a result of the 2016 election. But I had been into philosophy for a while before which is probably the main reason I first supported Bernie Sanders; he represented a lot of the ideals I had concluded from thinking philosophically: equality, unity, honesty, etc.

I liked it when he spoke about a world without poverty, where everything was shared, and people lived in harmony despite their differences. And I liked that he didn’t change his beliefs to become more popular; he was consistent. In my mind…