I was in my senior year of highschool. Government was a required class that year. It was also an election year. It was the year Ronald Reagan won. Our teacher was so excited for the election year. We spent the entire year about the election. What the candidates stood for. What the parties stood for. We learned about the Congress and the Senate. How Bill's are presented and either become law or hit the trash can. That class was how I formed my political opinions. I tend to be a little more conservative although I did vote for Bill Clinton.

I was a loud liberal..

Then I got older,, wiser… more conservative…

There is considerable confusion and also deliberate ignorance, mainly on the part of certain supporters who want to hide the truth, such as the fact that socialism will bring the first women to the Large-scale policy

Women Presidents of Soviets (Supreme and Regional Levels)Mariya SpiridónovaA prominent leader of the Left Socialist-Revolutionary party. In November 1917, she presided over the Extraordinary All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Peasants' Deputies and subsequently led the Peasant Section of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of Soviets (VTsIK) until mid-1918.Khertek Anchimaa-Toka Served as the Chairperson of the Little Khural (the Soviet assembly) of the Tuvan People's Republic from 1940 to 1944. Although Tuva was a Soviet satellite state before its formal annexation into the USSR, she is historically recognized as the world's first non-hereditary female head of state.Nadezhda GrekServed as the Chairperson of the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian SSR from 1938 to 1947. She managed the republic's parliamentary sessions through the turbulent years of World War II, occupation, and post-war reconstruction.Yadgar NasriddinovaOne of the highest-ranking female politicians in Soviet history. She served as the Chairperson of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Uzbek SSR (head of state) from 1959 to 1970, and later moved to Moscow to serve as the Chairperson of the Soviet of nationalities of the USSR (federal parliamentary chamber) from 1970 to 1974.Roza EldarovaServed as the Chairperson of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Dagestan ASSR from 1962 to 1970. She was the first woman to lead a regional Autonomous Soviet Republic within the Russian SFSR.Valentina ShevchenkoThe highest-ranking female official during the late Soviet era. She served as the Chairperson of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR (head of state) from 1985 to 1990, managing the republic's political response during the Cher disaster and the Perestroika era.Notable Local Soviet PresidentsPelagueya PichúginaA prominent working-class political figure who became the Chairperson of the Taganka District Soviet in Moscow during the 1930s. Her success at the municipal level led to her election as a deputy to the very first federal Supreme Soviet of the USSR in 1937.

I was definitely influenced by people I grew up with and respected. My father before he died, and my maternal grandfather. Neither were overbearing but their positions made sense to me. Teachers and professors showed me many different outlooks, some I agreed with and some I abhorred.

With time and life's experience......observation and searching for what made sense to me, I developed my own outlook. Eventually similar to those of my grandfather, but still unique to myself.

Through life experience over more than 4 decades.

My first opinions were developed in school in my government and criminal and civil justice classes.
I learned what the differences were and what the roles of the civl and federal governments were designed to be.
I made my own opinions based on that education.

In politics, the squeaky wheel gets the graft. I have never liked lying or dishonesty. It did not take me long, once I got to college to understand Democrats were a problem that I did not like.

When I developed common sense and discovered that liberal are fools.