First off, my personal ideological testimony.

Having always had a healthy distaste for authority, I hate to admit I started my political journey as a “rebellious” liberal.  That is, until I realized the logical concessions one must make in persisting as a statist.  For instance, one must, all at once, distrust the government searching the home one harbors no umbrage toward the government having purchased for one in the first place. 

So, I moved on down the ideological line.

Being a passionate reactionary, I soon stumbled awkwardly into full-on mainstream, “kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out,” neo-conservativism.  My foreign policy position basically mirrored the plot of an episode of G.I. Joe.  I entered into every episode knowing who was the good guy and bad guy; I knew the good guy was always right; and knowing was “half the battle.”