Biggest influences on you.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

LOL.  Wrong, but clever.

[Joe Republic]

Jesus Christ
Jack Kemp
Konrad Adenauer
Theodore Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
Winston Churchill
Winfield Dunn
Lamar Alexander
Alan Simpson
David Cameron
George H.W. Bush
George W. Bush
Newt Gingrich
Howard Baker
Christine Todd Whitman
Rick Warren
Dave Ramsey
(and Rush Limbaugh when I was growing up)

I should hope these aren't in any particular order.  Unless your second biggest influence after the son of God is the Republican candidate for Vice President thirteen years ago?

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Jesus Christ
Jack Kemp
Konrad Adenauer
Theodore Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
Winston Churchill
Winfield Dunn
Lamar Alexander
Alan Simpson
David Cameron
George H.W. Bush
George W. Bush
Newt Gingrich
Howard Baker
Christine Todd Whitman
Rick Warren
Dave Ramsey
(and Rush Limbaugh when I was growing up)

I should hope these aren't in any particular order.  Unless your second biggest influence after the son of God is the Republican candidate for Vice President thirteen years ago?

Hahaha good point - most aren't in order, though Jack Kemp might be #2 but of course on a much lower magnitude than #1.

[Lunar]

Interesting question.  The biggest in recent months, if it's not obvious already, is that gay British Catholic guy, Andrew Sullivan, who is probably as close to my political ideology as mainstream pundits get these days.  Passionate, passionate arguments against people who are wrong (included example: homophobes and their supporters in the Republican Party), and a compromising, conciliatory approach to politics as a whole.  I would like to engage politics on an even more passionate level than Sullivan does in the coming months.

I'm pretty darn straight, but I've found myself increasingly radicalized on the issue of gay rights over the last six months...and I think my viewpoint on the issue is roughly representative of what I would like my beliefs to be as a whole.

[Chaim]

Ron Paul, Pat Buchanan, Jim Traficant, Charles Lindbergh, Father Coughlin.

[Ban my account ffs!]

Paul Wellstone had a profound impact on me.  As well as my family.  Otherwise, most of my political leanings and positions have come from my own research and feelings and philosophies and they change as I develop and mature.

[Хahar 🤔]

1984 by George Orwell (bigbigbig influence)

I suspect Orwell wouldn't like the influence that that book has had on society.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Last but most definitely not least: FDR's proposed Second Bill of Rights

Ah yes; another example of how great a man FDR was.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

Lysander Spooner
Friedrich von Hayek
Ludwig von Mises
Murray Rothbard
Ron Paul
Pat Buchanan
Andrew Napolitano
H.L. Mencken
Noam Chomsky
G.K. Chesterton
Cecil Chesterton
Hilaire Belloc
Lord Acton
Henry Edward Manning
Dorothy Day
Peter Maurin
Leo Tolstoy
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Karl von Habsburg
Parmenides
Nicias
Juvenal
Numa Pompilius
Robert A. Taft
Eugene J. McCarthy
George S. McGovern
Barry M. Goldwater
Mike Gravel
Wayne Morse
Mark O. Hatfield
Robert La Follette
William Graham Sumner
Jeannette Rankin
Alfred E. Smith
R. Sargent Shriver
Pierre Joseph Proudhon
Henry David Thoreau
Frederic Bastiat
Jean-Baptiste Say
Henry Hazlitt
Lew Rockwell
Walter Block
Pope Pius IX
Pope Leo XIII
Pope St. Pius X
Pope Pius XI
Pope Pius XII
Rev. Charles Coughlin
Rev. Denis Fahey
Tertullian
Alex Jones
Mother Jones
E. F. Schumacher
Arthur Penty
Kirkpatrick Sale
Howard Zinn
Thomas Naylor
Thomas Woods
Thomas DiLorenzo
Bill Kauffman
Jesse Ventura

[Tetro Kornbluth]

1984 by George Orwell (bigbigbig influence)

I suspect Orwell wouldn't like the influence that that book has had on society.

^^^^

Especially the sort of people who quote it. Anyway it isn't really a good book tbh, far too preachy and didactic. From what I have read of Orwell he is a much better essayist and journalist than novelist (admittely this is only based on 1984 and Animal Farm for his novels).

If I gave a list it would be mostly made out of Internet People, Academics, Film Directors and Critics and Authors (especially SF and Fantasy authors). At least out of persons, I guess ideas and ideals related to what might be termed "Radical Romanticism" also. Ideas (especially abstract one to which I can weave my own little dent) inspire me more than people do.

Off the top of my head Stanley Kubrick, Clifford Geertz, Philip K. Dick, Frederik Pohl, Marshal Sahlins and Alfred Bester would certainly feature and I have no shame in the "lowbrow highbrow" nature of this.

[Free Trade is managed by the invisible hand.]

Mainly my friends and people who i meet on the train.
Philosophers/Economists/Psychologists
Diogenes of Sinope
Immanuel kant
Sigmund Freud
James Tobin
silvio gesell
Ludwig Wittgenstein
thomas malthus
john stuart mill
B.F skinner
Friedrich Nietzsche
Søren Kierkegaard
John Locke
noam chomsky
War
erwin rommel
B. H. Liddell Hart
T. E. Lawrence
Math
Archimedes
Isaac Newton
Euclid
Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī(Have a portrait of him on my lap top)
Sociology
William Julius Wilson
Émile Durkheim
Lingustic
Noam Chomsky
Wittegenstien
Anthropology
Claude Lévi-Strauss

[Free Trade is managed by the invisible hand.]

i am stoned

[Conservative frontier]

My new list

Religion

God

American Politics

George W. Bush
Ronald Reagan
Sarah Palin
Richard Burr
Jack Kemp
Sean Hannity

[k-onmmunist]

i am stoned

Kthx.

[Хahar 🤔]

God

No. Just no.

[k-onmmunist]

God

No. Just no.

[Free Trade is managed by the invisible hand.]

no one in this thread has listed any personal experiences.

[Conservative frontier]

i am stoned

Thank you for the useful and urgent  information, remind me to tell you when I take a crap, or piss, or throw up, also I'd love to tell you when I'm light-headed or on meds.

Alright, thanks for not contributing to this conversation, and have a nice day