WHY I WRITE
Naturally I do this out of order from the title.
I write because I have to. I see SO MUCH WRONG out there today. I mean, the world is a pretty screwed up place with A LOT of screwed up people making A LOT of screwed up decisions. Now understand, I put myself at the top of that list. I do not claim to have cornered the market on anything other than being screwed up. And that gives me a pretty good perspective, I think, to say something.
My politics are kinda confusing at first. One, I am not what you’d expect, given my background.
Retired Navy, small business owner, from the south.
Pretty much a recipe for a Conservative Republican, right?
Nope.
I was a CR for awhile, a faithful follower of Rush, et al, but I kept finding myself at odds with about half of the republican platform, and with about 100% of how they were saying things. Problem was, I felt the same way about the Democrats and Liberals.
If only there was some way to combine what I considered to be the best of both sides.
Viola, LIBERTARIANISM!
Well, sort of.
See I don’t fit ANYWHERE smoothly. But that’s ok, especially in the LP.
I’ll go into my specific beliefs another time, but basically I’m a kinda sorta social liberal, a kinda sorta defense hawk, kinda sorta fiscal conservative, but mostly a ‘You stay out of my personal business and I’ll stay out of yours” kinda guy. That is definitely NOT the message of Ls, Cs, Rs or Ds,
But I am compelled to point out and comment on the BS that is floating around. Sometimes, I even spout some. But I just can’t leave things unsaid when they affect so many.
My writing style is mainly conversational. I write generally the way I think. I deciding a while ago that I wasn’t going to write in a way that felt wrong or alien to me. I have to express things in a way that allows me to flow.
Part of this comes from my being quite a bit ADD. I get distracted by all sorts of bright shinys out there. So I have to jump on the flow and ride it as long as possible. This results in my writing being a bit disjointed, much as conversations with me get on occasion.
I guess more on this later.
Bill
