Why I‘ve left the Tribe

Or, why the tribe left me

I’ve considered myself a liberal for as long as I’ve been politically aware, which probably goes back to voting for Jimmy Carter in our second grade mock election, maybe earlier, given my parents were politically active hippies.

Since then, I drifted around the map, briefly flirting with socialism and anarchism, but eventually settling on a fairly typical left-of-center libertarianish democrat. I worked at ACORN, campaigned for Kathleen Brown, and voted for Obama. (Twice.)