Alteration in my Politics

Recovering from my accident has taught me a valuable lesson about the human psyche.  My recovery has taught me the strength of the human spirit.  Humans do most things selfishly.  Even when one jumps in front of a bullet to save a loved one, I think that impulse has selfish reasoning.  Think about it. Wouldn't you rather die than live without your mom (assuming you love your mom)?  This has caused me to change my political stance.  I once considered myself a liberal democrat.  I once thought people could accomplish things better, and quicker as a community.  In other words, I considered myself a "socialist".  Things can only get done better if the people trying to do the things know each other.  Socialism doesn't work in practice and in reality.  I hated when teachers tried to tell me Marx had a good system in theory, but not a good system in practice.  If the system doesn't work, doesn't that make it a bad system?  I have turned into a liberal republican.  In other words, I consider myself a follower of the "Tea Party".  A lot of the schmucks have joined the "Tea Party", unfortunately, who consider themselves hardcore republican, and, thus, he or she behaves like a dipshit.