American politics, since despite trying my best to avoid the topic like the plague, it absolutely won’t leave my mind given the traumatic experiences I’ve had with the subject around my own family and especially in the furry fandom. It’s a really triggering subject to me since it’s pretty much the story of my life, given all the dehumanization, invalidation, gaslighting, mockery, and whatnot I’ve endured as an autistic.
Probably an overwhelming majority of American politicians, since most of them seem so sure of themselves, for better or worse (mostly the latter), whereas those in my country who are genuinely wise tend to harbor doubts.
Do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why?
An equal time. The past in that I retain a lot of traumatic memories I absolutely can’t let go of no matter how hard I try, and the future in that there are tons of things I don’t look forward to, such as America’a 2024 elections and their aftermath, given my country’s toxic political culture and the media serving as a mouthpiece for all the ideological supremacism that envenoms United States politics. I try to stay in the present, but can’t, given my various mental conditions.
How have your political views changed over time?
I was far-right when I turned of voting age, and while I’m still fairly touchy about certain things, I suppose I’ve largely experienced a sense of ideological “woke” amidst America’s incredibly-toxic political climate, given the media and politicians seeing everything in black and white terms while completely ignoring the gray area, categorically refusing to compromise on anything, not respecting opposing opinions at all, gaslighting, dehumanizing one another, and so forth. Here’s my most recent result from politicalcompass.org:
Definitely Martin Luther King, Jr., since he pretty much set the bar for contemporary social justice and I stand about where he stood politically and socially, yet American society is still far from what he imagined, since things like race and ideology in particular remain incredibly divisive.
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