How I arrived at this place… Politically

“Text, without context, is pretext.”

The context of this text comes out of a discussion I was having with my mentor. He had been having a conversation with another friend of mine, which boiled down to that friend asking this question about me: “When did Ed get so conservative?”

When I began to write this article I thought that the topic was about who I was as a person and how I arrived at the political place that I am now. I thought it was about how my friends saw me as different from where they were politically. I thought that the object of writing this…