Biography

My Political Journey

I was born in 1975, shortly before America’s bicentennial, near America’s capital in northern Virginia. And I grew up there during the 1980s in an environment both rich in history and steeped in politics. I enjoyed touring local historic sites, whether with my parents or with fellow Boy Scouts, and I developed lifelong passions for religion and family and politics.

My parents were both Reagan Republicans, and I adored the “Great Communicator’s” staunch opposition to statism (whether at-home or abroad), keen sense of humor, and sunny optimism despite the shadow of the waning Cold War—and, in 1990, I felt so excited to watch Germans demolish the Berlin Wall. I despised international communism.

I was listening to my Church’s General Conference in 1987 when President Ezra Taft Benson spoke to us about “Our Divine Constitution,” and his remarks resonated with me and motivated me over time to seek out more of what my Church’s leaders had said about politics in First Presidency messages, General Conference talks, speeches, books, et cetera.

As I continued to study politics from religious sources, I eventually began to include secular sources, as well, including those from wise statesmen like John Locke and America’s Founders, all of which helped me to become a staunch libertarian Constitutionalist. And I also studied important related truths from historians and economists and others.

I discovered social-media in 2006, which helped me in turn to discover Ron Paul, who motivated me to transform from armchair philosopher to political activist. In fact, in 2007, I coordinated a Utah County group of 250 activists that helped Dr. Paul to place second (after Mitt Romney) in 2008 in the Western States U. S. Presidential Primary Election.

I became too ill to support Dr. Paul very well in 2011-2012, but I’ve striven to contribute actively to America’s ongoing political dialogue, especially on social media, about the issues of our era regarding elections, taxes, deficits, debts, money, regulations, education, health, welfare, speech, self-defense, civil liberties, surveillance, immigration, treaties, warfare, et cetera.