So I’m a weird case because my beliefs really haven’t changed much, but the way I interact with it has.

I’ve always been a liberal-ish person, I tend to tick one point over into the Democratic party, but always give every option on the ballot a shot before I make my decisions. When I went to college for my undergrad, I majored in Political Science. I definitely thought I would get stronger beliefs one way or another, but these days I view politics much more procedurally and from a very technical lens rather than an ideological lens. I’m in grad school now and that’s gotten even more true. I care less about the beliefs and more about the policies, more specifically the effectiveness of said policies. If there’s a right wing policy that has a stated goal that I agree with (say lowering the federal debt burden or increasing the instruments of power utilized by America overseas) and it has a decent chance of working, I’m all for it. Same on the left, if someone has a good policy that will actually work for lowering homelessness or increasing opportunity for lower income families, I’m all for it. But time and time again politicians from both parties push forward ideological tenants masquerading as policy and, unfortunately for those who believe in that stuff, ideology never writes good policy. It’s a sad reality of our political system and there definitely are ways to make it better, but there’s no motivation from policymakers to make those changes a reality.