I took the political compass test awhile ago, the result I got was around libertarian socialism which made me curious as to what that even means. This quiz started my journey into political and social issues. I did research on what exactly it is, only to find that it really doesn't fit me completely. I then found out about anarcho-communism which seemed to fit my mold a bit more, but there were some fundamental things I also thought didn't really fit me. I started to get confused at this point as I didn't know where exactly I stood politically. To this day, I'm still wandering around attempting to find where exactly I fit in. I've also been taught for years that radical left views are wrong and that the opposing radical right views are right, if that makes sense.
My question is how did you find out where exactly you stood politically and socially? Have you also felt like me at some point? It just seems like a massive, complex mess that I don't think I'll ever thoroughly complete. I do have a plan to eventually get literature and media on subjects such as fascism, anarchism, communism, and what not to help me comprehend political and social subjects. I've always been the more submissive type to just accept what others say and to have my opinions easily swayed by others say despite me not really liking them, so excuse me if this is a bad or uninformed question to ask.
OdiousOutlaw wrote
It took a lot of introspection and reading. I knew about the dominant two parties in the US, and didn't care for either; leading me to libertarianism (not the socialist kind. I wouldn't know what a socialist was until my late teens), and I was unschooled for most of middle school, so I didn't learn about "the evils of communism". Called myself an anarchist at around 14, because I saw libertarianism as just too clingy to the flawed premise of a small government; might as well not have any. My real turning point was my debate class assigning my group and me an argument on corporate personhood, and I read something about how corporations can legally rent cops, who I already hated; then Trump won the election, leading to me wanting to look more into anarchism, found a few communities read a buncha socialist/ancom/communist shit, registered to raddle after lurking here back when it was called raddit, started paying more attention here when it was obvious that reddit was getting worse, got disillusioned with communism, and now I'm here.