Why are you a Liberal / Democrat / Centrist ? [View All]

Just curious. Personally, I am a registered Democrat. I am not of a particularly liberal stance, but I do support the broad goals of the Democratic Party and oppose the "morals-based" legislative agenda of the Republicans. I think the turning point came for me, after I got out of the military in the late seventies, and Reagan got elected shortly after. The combination of seeing more of the world than gets popularly advertised in our country, and listening to Reagan's insane lies and deranged, senile babblings on the news each night, caused me to develop a lifelong antipathy to the twisted Newspeak of the Republican Party. That and the fact that every conservative I have ever known, have been so selfish with their "it's MY money why should I pay ONE RED CENT to help the POOR"-orientation, that I changed my voter status in 1981, and never looked back.