politics

I was having a beer with my old boss, who was trying to get me to do some freelance work for him. Politics came up, and he's one of those libertarians who thinks every person should own their own tractor, and doesn't understand how larger systems work. I told him Bernie Sanders (our senator) had soured on me. He says "It's so good to see when young people break free of their political alignment as they get older", all confident and sure that if I wasn't on the "left", that surely I'd moved towards the right. The look on his face when I told him the two American political parties were so far to the right that they might as well be the same right-wing party was priceless.