So this is my first post here and you're right, I have no idea what the hell I'm doing. To tell the truth, I'm also not quite sure what block chain is or exactly WHY it is so lauded and obsessed over by my more tech-minded friends. Fortunately I DO know what blogging is (so I'm only haf a moron here) and am willing to learn more about everything to do with block chain and Steem.
Anyway, down to the point of this post, I'm a Millenial Free-Stater Mom. I also deeply abhor politics and have become completely jaded by the growing fucked up controversy that seems to influence everyone/everything I know. Eight years ago when I was voting for the first time it seemed much easier. The candidates and parties had vastly opposing views and ran their campaigns in a way that made my choice blatantly obvious to me. It help that one parties supporters were bat shit insane. I had the posters, I joined my friends holding political signs at an intersection, and I spurned the few students at my college who had joined the young republicans group (which made my relationship with my roommate very awkward). I was a good little Democrat, though I considered myself a moderate.
Then Obama actually won, and my new-voter-addled brain started to clear up. For two more years I continued to consider myself a Democrat, and was loudly supportive of the change in ethical and social issues that I considered important. Way too soon, I started to notice that things weren't actually changing. Things promised that my peers had all been excited about were instantly forgotten, never to be brought up again. The corruption of politics were slowly becoming more apparent.
We pretty much all started realizing how little control of anything we millenials actually had at about the same time. Some blamed corporations and banks, and thus the impotently boisterous Occupy Movement happened. Others focused on race or societal issues heavily influenced and overblown by the media. To be honest, if it slightly affected even the psyche of an individual in a negative way, somebody would present it as the reason for everything awful in their life.
I of course, am not above my peers in the reaching out for a foothold in this spiraling mess that came after adulthood happened. About 6 years ago when I had already decided I was a moderate Independent voter and not a Republican or Democrat, my fiance mentioned the Free-State Project. 'Oh geez' I had thought with an eye-roll,'a bunch of friggen idealistic right-wing old hippies.' But I kept listening to the news, reading my peers long posts on facebook, and seeing the complete breakdown of everything I thought or had once believed solid. The media screamed for and against millenials and the various issues they fought for or believed in. The government broke promises and became more and more obvious in the their bullshit and corruption and senselessness. After a while (and quite a few more mentions by my fiance) moving to NH and joining crazy right-wing hippies sounded more appealing than dealing with everything else. This is what is called willful ignorance.
By the end of 2012, we were married and living in NH. My husband was a happily stated libertarian with Ancap leanings and I would firmly state to anyone who asked that I was Moderate and libertarian-leaning (now, I'm just a libertarian). Slowly, everything the real Free-Staters did and said started to break through the preconceived notions I had. Like the other millenials, I found something that I believe in. I'm a mom now too, which has changed the importance of many of my foudation beliefs.
Now, it's 2016. Eight years since polical posters and obvious choices. We have Hillary blatantly breaking laws and Trump blatanly being an attention-whore. Many of my peers are still loud about some issues, but follow their political party like mindless zombies to the loudest noise. My libertarian friends mostly have decided voting for the Libertarian candidate is the pinacle of stupidity, so are opting out completely yet making fun of all the candidates. It is all a mess. How will it turn out? I seriously don't know.