http://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism

Einstein was not a socialist, he was almost nothing. He was brilliant and suffered skepticism and theorism in bounds.

To say he was a socialist, capitalist, libertarian… all wrong.

He was himself.

CREinstein (Meaning Conservative Republican Einstein… I love math thus the nick and the knowledge)

Being older and having more life experience helps to understand failures of the current system more than anything else.

I spent the majority of my life as more of a moderate, or rather more accepting of them as the rule, looking at a more practical way of dealing with what is, rather than being concerned with radical change of what is. It wasn’t until 9/11 that I started to change my point of view. I was in my mid-thirties, had a successful career and a great family life. There was little personal impetus for the change with the exception of the fact that government had failed miserably at its primary duty – defense.

I can tell you that I would not have noticed the problem earlier in life, and would have instead bought all the excuses that 9/11 was somehow something that the powers that be could not have known about in the slightest. I wanted to know how government can be so expensive and fail so miserably with fatal consequences – I honestly did not know – and so I set out on a path to find out what it was supposed to be versus what it is before it was the fashionable thing to be doing.

I live in one of the bluest of blue states and was a clear minority in the work place, surrounded by a sea of liberals. Yet, there I was, spending break time at my desk with a copy each of “The Federalist”, “Free to Choose”, and “Capitalism and Freedom”. Because of my business background, everything I read made complete sense to me, and it wasn’t until then that I had the capacity to grasp the meaning and gravity of policies I had previously supported, or what supporting them meant to the basic principles of freedom and the effects on our standard of living.

Old tigers can and do change their stripes. It was a long process for me, learning everything I needed to know, with a lusty hunger to learn as much as I could about the founding generation and the founders themselves, to recognize the errors of the past, but I arrived, completely on my own accord. The trials and tribulation of the last few years, some that have impacted me personally, have only reenforced my new found independence of political thought, and the coming of Obama took those ideals from the realm of academic debate and turned them into a sense of urgency that I have never before felt.

It is that sense of urgency that has lead me a point that is well beyond the point of no return. Never again could I be a plaything for elites, to be used and abused and cast aside when the election is over with expectation of conformance to whatever they wish to do. Those days are gone. The truth is the truth, no matter who is in power, and I will always be prepared to call them to the mat and hold them accountable.