Personal:

Some perspective on my views

Some have commented on how I seem to be tilting more to the "liberal" or left side of the spectrum in recent months.

As I commented in an earlier post titled "Partisan? No, principled" my recent statements are not based on an ideological reaction.

Not unless you can call ideological an opposition of those in power or those seeking power, no matter what their stated reasons are.

In this, I am like my father, but I was not fully aware of this until about 5 years ago.

When I was very young, even up until I was 18, my father taught me that respect for properly constituted authority was important.

We were both in Scouting together. When I was in the Boy Scouts, or my younger brother in the Cub Scouts, my father fully participated as an Assistant Scoutmaster.

He never explicitly told me to challenge authority, especially since more often than not he aligned himself with that very same authority.

Somehow, his rebellious streak was transferred to me, but not to my brother.

I have been the son who has moved around the country, and around the world.

I have been the son who has continually challenged the status quo, and despite continually rocking the boat, I am the son who is the most successful in many ways, not just financial or in a career, far beyond what my father ever dreamed for his children.

My father first said to me about a decade ago (and has repeated it since), "If I see most people doing something, I'll do the opposite, just because I don't trust the majority."

Odd...

We both believe in democracy.

But we both challenge the conventional thinking of the majority, and we examine the opposite path just because the majority opposes it.

A true son of the father indeed.