Let's see.. influences.. I'm not sure I have a ton of influences, but there are many figures past and present that I admire. I'm sure I'm forgetting loads of people here though.
Political influences:James Weaver
Tommy Douglas
Theodore Roosevelt
Clement Attlee
Thomas Jefferson
Eugene Debs
John Q. Adams
Eleanor Roosevelt
And I suppose Ron Paul in very limited and specific ways.
Misc. modern influences:Paul Krugman
Arianna Huffington
Richard Dawkins
Bernie Sanders
Philosophical/economic influences:Bertrand Russell
George Carlin
John Maynard Keynes
Karl Marx
Last but most definitely not least: FDR's proposed
Second Bill of Rights
