-0--1-<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@flyhigh" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>flyhigh</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://deppenkessel.de/@GNUmatic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>GNUmatic</span></a></span> When I was young I considered myself a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Libertarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Libertarian</span></a>. It was because I lived among angry, impoverished people who never lived outside the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BubbleOfPrivilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BubbleOfPrivilege</span></a>. I came to understand that it is a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Euphemism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Euphemism</span></a> for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Selfishness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Selfishness</span></a>. I then became a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a> because I am <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FiscallyConservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FiscallyConservative</span></a>. I taught at a girls school 100km north of Nairobi, Kenya (84-86). When <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TrentLott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrentLott</span></a> changed the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> to the party of Bigots. I became a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Libtard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Libtard</span></a>. I've been across the spectrum.</p>