A New Beginning

It's January 2015. A New Year. I am now in my 3rd semester at Eastern New Mexico University studying dual majors in Political Science and U S History. I have not written in a blog for many years now. My previous blog (thediscipledway.blogspot.com) was mainly an outlet to express what was going on regarding my walk with Christ. A lot has happened since those days. As I begin the upper division classes at ENMU I felt the need to keep track of my continued journey towards a more libertarian perspective. I have classified myself as a Constitutional Conservative with strong libertarian leanings. In high school (1992-1996) I registered to vote as a democrat. It was what all the kids were doing at the time, Clinton was a president that at least had some soul, even if you knew next to nothing about his policies (which I did not).

As I aged, I began to change the way I saw things. I still was not interested in politics, but I started seeing that things in the nation were not as I thought they were. It was towards the end of Clinton's 2nd term that I started looking at what the Republicans were saying. I had supported Elizabeth Dole in the primary against George W Bush. But he was nominated, and the last thing I wanted was to see Al Gore elected, so I threw my support (such as it was) behind Bush.

During Bush's terms in office, I was squarely in the GOP's corner. If for no other reason than how the media portrayed him to be during those eight years. I was a republican. Red as the state of Texas at the time. I had no idea what the "establishment" was, and would vehemently defend a republican nine times out of ten. While I do consider Bush to have been a very decent President, I only clearly saw that he was weak on the economy, and foolish in his creation of the dept of homeland security, once he was out of office. Actually, it was his own book "Decision Points" that caused me to see how wrong he was in certain areas (areas that he himself was also torn in.)

I dove head first into politics in 2010 while being a truck driver. Driving for ten hours a day listening to talk radio (thanks SiriusXM) gave me a lot of time to ponder and think about what it meant to be a conservative. My first exposure to the libertarian movement was through Ron Paul. It gave me the creeps when Paul said of a nuclear Iran "well they haven't bombed us yet...." (a notion and a shudder I still to this day feel.)

Over the last few years, I have developed some libertarian leanings, am ashamed of the job the establishment (of BOTH parties) have done, and find myself agreeing more and more with Ronald Reagan's most frightening nine words you will ever hear, "I'm from the Government and I'm here to help."

So this blog will act as a launching pad for the ideas, notions, thoughts, reflections, and musings I learn and experience while pursuing my degree in Political Science. Stay tuned, I'm sure I will type up solid gold at SOME point in the next few years!