I'm not sure that my political views have shifted much through my reading of various threads here. I know where I stand on certain topics, and other topics I either don't care about or simply haven't heard about. But the short of it is that I don't read very many political topics here or anywhere else.
The most important thing I've learned here is that most of my posts never get posted. Why? Sometimes when I proofread a post that I've been working on it is so full of holes, contradictions, and reiterations of the same points that I come to realize just how disorganized and subjective my train of thought is. Other times what I write is simply the end result of a day that hasn't gone the way I would have liked it to.