My story
As a kid I was apolitical about Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. In 1992 I supported Bill Clinton because George HW Bush sucked. In 1996 I endorsed Bob Dole for President, in 2000 I supported Bill Bradley and when he dropped out I supported George W Bush. I was apolitical to politics in the 1980s and 1990s. I became a Liberal Democrat in 2003 due to me turning against the Iraq War and becoming anti war and me seeing the Dixie Chicks being bullied for being anti war by warhawks like Denis Leary etc. For the rest of the 2000s I was anti war (which I still am today but for the reasons Mark Twain was against war not for the Lenin reasons I was against war then), hated George W Bush and his neocon Republican allies, supported John Kerry and Barack Obama, had a lot of liberal views etc. As a liberal in the 2000s, whenever a pastor or a conservative commentator came on TV and said something that went against my liberal beliefs, I would go nuts and throw my remote at the TV so to speak....