I was lucky that I grew up in a family that was mostly very conservative and very distrustful of the government and the police. My grandfather was particularly vocal about it. He voted Republican, but he hated paying taxes and hated anyone who tried to flex their power over regular people. The government took his family's land, so he had his reasons. And I always had that as an example. My other grandparents were huge Kennedy fans.

I'm 44 now, and I remember voting Libertarian in all of my first few elections, including the Bush/Gore election of 2000. Then I started voting Constitution Party. It wasn't until Ron Paul ran in 2008 that I was willing to vote Republican. As people said back then, Ron Paul "cured my apathy." I love that man.

9/11 and Alex Jones opened my eyes to the real evil, though. People love to hate Alex, but he's responsible for a lot of people coming to their senses around that time. Some of those old documentaries he did back then were excellent. But I remember everyone crying on 9/11 and people saying that if you didn't cry, you didn't have any feelings. I never cried about it. My only feelings were disgust, skepticism, and fear. I just knew from the moment it happened that there was something truly dark afoot, far beyond what the news was pumping 24/7. And look where we are now.

I was lucky that I grew up in a family that was mostly very conservative and very distrustful of the government and the police. My grandfather was particularly vocal about it. He voted Republican, but he hated paying taxes and hated anyone who tried to flex their power over regular people. The government took his family's land, so he had his reasons. And I always had that as an example. My other grandparents were huge Kennedy fans.

I'm 44 now, and I remember voting Libertarian in all of my first few elections, including the Bush/Gore election of 2000. Then I started voting Constitution Party. It wasn't until Ron Paul ran in 2008 that I was willing to vote Republican. As people said back then, Ron Paul "cured my apathy." I love that man.

9/11 and Alex Jones opened my eyes to the real evil, though. People love to hate Alex, but he's responsible for a lot of people coming to their senses around that time. Some of those old documentaries he did back then were excellent.