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As I became an adult, I  originally adopted my parents stance as a democrat( father was Union Official). However I had no love of government or it's programs. It took me until just two years ago to realize I was a anarchist. I have no need for government and it's laws.

Republican to limited gov. Libertarian to ancap.

ryanpatgray:

Immediately before becoming an anarcho-capitalist how did you describe yourself politically?

 Immediately? Same as you--non-anarchist libertarian. But I certainly went the long way to get there...

Libertarian / Ron Paulian

right-leaning post-objectivist libertarian

Independent

I did not describe myself politically.

Once in a while a hard right lunkhead group me with Liberals, but no on "labelled" me because they could not figure out where I was coming from - someplace they had never been, and some did not want to go, or even think about going there.

I did not agree with any "party" - saw little difference between the "majors"

I was not really Libertarian, not really Green, not in favor of unions, not in "agreement" anywhere really.

For a long time I thought "government" could be improved from within, but that was never a satisfying notion, and it got more feeble with time until I asked "What for?"

Now I want nothing more to do with it, and the sooner the better.

Actually, I'm NOT an Anarchist, but here's how it went.

I was a Christian from around 2001-2005.  As both a Christian, and a fan of punk music I began to take a harsh look at what I saw to be a selfish society.  I became a Jesus-Liberal, clamoring for more welfare and less money spent on war.  Slowly I began to realize how stupid this was, and began to look into Libertarianism thanks to an acquaintance.  I fell in love with it, and I think this is where my true " journey for knowledge " began.  What struck me most interesting was this radical individualistic philosophy, which I was told truly began with Ayn Rand.  I read The Fountainhead and some other stuff of hers ( Not Atlas ) and was conflicted, as I was still a Christian.  Around the summer of 2006, I grew the balls to renounce my Religious beliefs and rid myself of the blatant contradiction in life.  At this point, I did consider myself an ideal Anarcho-Capitalist, but realized it just wasn't very likely my ideals were going to pan out. I began reading more; Milton Friedman, Adam Smith, the classics.  Though I thought at the time I was an Objectivist philosophically, it was more a Nietzschean Egoist.  After reading Atlas Shrugged fully, I realized many other contradictions I was facing, like drinking a lot, my kind of moral-nihilism and my disregard for the necessity of a government.  I became what most would consider a text-book Objectivist, and that is essentially where i remain.  So, the journey was: bleeding heart liberal, Libertarian/Anarcho-Capitalist, filthy, war-mongering ARI Objectivist-Capitalist pig dog.

I was a pacifist and voted green because I thought ( have been told ) not voting would make it worst but never believed that the political system we have is something I want to support. I wasn't doing anything political at all. So I escaped and have been interested in Sci-Fi instead

for example:
If you send a ship with 600 people to another planet and it would take three generation for them to arrive there. What would be the thoughts of the generation in between. The one that have never seen earth and won't see the new planet either. Would they go crazy or wouldn't they care... or more scary would they feel as we feel right now since this is a constant state of human mind. Always in transition....?

 

Conservative Nationalist

 I didn't considered myself anything and never voted for any party, (but  clearly I am libertarian at heart)

Patricia

libertarian-individualist. Figured gov wasn't going away.........but still thought it stunk.

My parents were democrats, so I sorta was, too, just because I'd never really seen any other way about things (I had several liberal politicians and activists in my family).  Then I was introduced to Objectivism in my late teens, though I never entirely adopted the ARI, largely because I disagreed greatly with Leonard Peikoff's... er.. methods, but I still found myself leaning in the completely opposite direction from the liberalism I'd grown up with. 

Then I found myself more and more intrigued with the way of Libertarianism, and though I never really adopted that entirely, either.  I've always been leery of simply declaring myself one way or another, I guess, probably because I was always striving to find a better alternative.

Then I discovered how much I agreed with George Carlin's policy on not voting because everyone sucks.  

Now I'm here!

I was pretty apathetic until watching some Alex Jones videos and finding out about Ron Paul and minarchism. I was a minarchist during most of the Ron Paul campaign before discovering FDR and switching over to An-Cap.

Immediately before I was a minarchist. I transitioned from Paleoconservative to Mainstream Libertarian to Minarchist to AnCap.