User:Romantic idealist

General Facts
I am an 18-year old politically active liberal living in Montana. Yes, that often presents some interesting dilemmas. But actually, I live near Missoula, which is quite hippy-liberal. So yay. I grew up on a farm, where I shall live until I head off to college next fall. Montana. Who has even heard of Montana? It’s one of those states that you’re pretty sure exists, but no one cares enough to find out. Nevertheless, I enjoy it. It's pretty and rural and the people are generally kind (as long as you don't try to take away their guns).

Interests
Politics, literature, art, music, good mochas, organic foods. . . all the usual snooty elitist liberal stuff.

Here's more complete list, from an essay I wrote:
 * Science (pretty much all branches, but I've shown a leaning toward astrophysics), some algebraic math, analyzing literature and poetry, politics and government, cooking, admiring aesthetically pleasing things, animals, behavior and psychology, logic, history, drawing, Greek mythology (though I thoroughly enjoy other myths as well), languages, culture, debate, opinions, discussing said opinions in an intellectually stimulating manner, writing, reading anything I can lay my hands on, editing, being the local grammar police, random facts, inserting aforementioned facts into random conversations, being random in general, MUSIC!, theater, acting, bursting out singing, being optimistic, theorizing, learning about religions, discussing motivation and personal morality, and dreaming.

Ideology
I'm a liberal. I often find that coinciding with the Democratic Party, but I do believe they have somewhat lost their spine and should go read Paul Wellstone's obituary and weep at their failures.

I'm very idealistic and romantic (as the username would suggest), but I do policy debate and my father is a natural resources economist, so I'm do understand and appreciate how the real world works.

I'm an atheist. But I go to a Catholic school, so I have a good acquaintance with religion. It's fun to debate religious folk and quote the Bible at them. *insert wicked grin*

I believe in lots of things. One of them is human decency. Another is tolerance. But I also vehemently oppose ignorance, especially its proselytization, and as such I cannot let Conservapedia go unanswered. Which leads me to. . ..

Reasons For Joining Liberapedia
I discovered Conservapedia and started reading. At first I laughed. Then I started face-palming. After a while, it degenerated into head-desking. A few articles later, I suffered a brief loss of faith in humanity, which began a downward spiral in which I looked into the Nietzschian abyss, then fell into it, then felt my heathen soul wither away into dust.

And then I found Liberapedia. A ray of light fell upon me, and lo, I beheld the path to salvation. And it was good.