Liberalism, Socialist, and other ideals that have sunk.

If any time before today you were to ask my stance on politics and beliefs, I may have told you that I was moving a liberal direction. However, today I was hit with some reality. Unfortunately this was one of those experiences that can't be explained in words. A person had to explain to me three times in three different ways what they were trying to tell me. Once I understood the third way, the rest followed and I opened my mind to new ideas about my understanding of what it is to be a liberal. This idea I was finding for myself without even realizing it, and I don't feel like expanding upon those thoughts right this moment.

A friend of my told me this story, this would be the third of three explanations. He recycles. He put out three milk containers, but unfortunately didn't wash them out, so they didn't pick them up. The smell of a milk container is terrible and so of course he decided it would be best to toss them in the regular garbage. A neighbor of his saw him do this and encountered him. Yelling at him about tossing plastic in the garbage when it could be recycled. My friend simply said to me that he didn't want to be accosted for not doing a "what socialite would consider a good deed."

I sat and took that information in. Not before expressing that I think that recycling is a government farce, that subsidies recycling by nearly 15 billion a year. Also there is no shortage of landfill space in this country, and recycling plants(haha FACTORIES) use almost three times the energy of just creating something new. And I am anti-plastic, recycled or otherwise to finish that thought.

I thoughts turned to Russia and the arts. Russia. Arts. Those two things are never really associated with each other. Why would that be I thought. Waste. Socialism, Communism, Liberal agenda, they all point to some point of regulation and conservation of goods. Art is thought of as wasteful, which is interesting. Artists in this country seem to be drawn to the liberal side of things much more often then the free trade side of things. Maybe freedom is something that isn't selling if you really are free.

I will need to read more about all of this. At this point I still consider myself a moderate. I doubt I will ever become a Republican or a Liberal. The Democrats fall under that two party system that I hate so much. Libertarian would probably best describe me, but I am probably not that either because I do believe in progressive government. So I am a moderate, and I have a moderate agenda to be concerned with. Free energy, Free speech, and Long life.