I started getting political in the Bush era. I was understandably anti-war, anti-corporatism what with the close ties to Halliburton, etc. When Obama came into power I naively thought the left would be just as hard on him than they were on Bush. The disillusionment was palpable. That's when I understood that politics was red vs blue, and that people root for their chosen color no matter what, facts be damned.