We all must try to combat confirmation bias. I am guilty of it. We all are. We tend to approve of what we already believe and close our minds to those things we are ideologically supposed to oppose. I just challenge everyone to have an open mind because I have gone through many huge political shifts in my lifetime. I once thought Socialism was the way to go and Marxism was the best thing if it could work. I now know that capitalism without unfair rules is the best way. It allows those who are creative and intelligent to reach for the moon and it does not matter whether you are rich or poor. Hard work will always pay off in a Capitalist society. The incentive drives innovation and improvement. Conservatism is the new counter-culture and I see for the first time in a long time what my eyes were blind to and that is the inherent left wing bias in the news media. Thank goodness we have Steemit and other alternative news sources so we can figure out what is what. Our Governments should fear us and not the other way around, our Police should protect our rights not violate them, we should always have a safety net for those who need it and promote and encourage individuals to succeed and give them the tools to do so. We must as people find kindness within ourselves when we want to focus our anger. We should not use people as slave labor to prop up our standards of living and we must all want to work hard and instill values in our families that we truly believe are righteous and good. Government is a social construct but we as people are a natural entity, divine in our creation. Separate minds on separate journeys bumping into one another randomly and somehow connecting across the globe. I think so long as an ideology does not promote hatred than it should be heard. The silencing of viewpoints is the destruction of diversification of ideas and if we go down that road we will end up where we cannot challenge authority and are slaves ourselves. Whatever views we have, so long as they do not promote hurting people should be encouraged especially on Steemit.com. We are one of the last bastions of Free Speech on the internet as Twitter and Facebook have made it a daily ritual to remove funding and suspending people whose ideas are just simply not popular at the moment or who are flagged by mean-spirited people who wish to silence opposing points of view. I have come to be who I am today by fighting against ideologies and fighting for them. For seeing the error in my ways and opening my eyes to my own biases. We should all emerse ourselves in thoughts, diverse thoughts and support Free Speech. Because if they are able to say we are not allowed to think something or express an idea than the next step will be punishment for it and that is dangerous. For what is popular now may not be in the future and we all deserve to have our voices heard, even if we disagree. Christian, Conservative, American, in that order. He who thinks he knows everything knows nothing.