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I was a teen in the 70"s..a hippie for sure (minus all the drug use). So I was somewhat liberal, especially with the vietnam war.....became a little bit more conservative when I became an adult. But what woke me up was 9/11...my head was in the sand. I was busy raising kids. I knew I needed to pay more attention to my world around me. I am now 100% a conservative...I listened to both sides. I am on the side of those who will keep me and my family safe. Good post sardone.
I was a teen in the 70"s..a hippie for sure (minus all the drug use). So I was somewhat liberal, especially with the vietnam war.....became a little bit more conservative when I became an adult. But what woke me up was 9/11...my head was in the sand. I was busy raising kids. I knew I needed to pay more attention to my world around me. I am now 100% a conservative...I listened to both sides. I am on the side of those who will keep me and my family safe. Good post sardone.
Don't worry - Obama WILL keep you safe from George Bush.
I was a teen in the 70"s..a hippie for sure (minus all the drug use). So I was somewhat liberal, especially with the vietnam war.....became a little bit more conservative when I became an adult. But what woke me up was 9/11...my head was in the sand. I was busy raising kids. I knew I needed to pay more attention to my world around me. I am now 100% a conservative...I listened to both sides. I am on the side of those who will keep me and my family safe. Good post sardone.
I was a teen in the 60"s..a hippie for sure. So, I took a trip, and I never really . . uh . . well . . you know . . landed.
“Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.”
- Winston Churchill
If you had been a rightist or a leftist, then later on changed to the other side, why, and how was the process?
Discuss.
I was pretty conservative when I was in high school and college. I went to Grove City College which is a very conservative school and fits in very well with today's right wing philosophy. I graduated from college in 1972 so this was during the Viet Nam war era. While I didn't strongly support the war, I wasn't in demonstrations either. I voted for Nixon and Ford. I learned towards the financially conservative ideas but wasn't a passionate promoter of it. But at the same time, I wasn't very religious and I suppose was a social liberal. But back then, Republicans didn't seem to preach morals or values so much as they do now.
But as time has passed, I've become more and more liberal. I won't drag this out, but the first thing that turned me off to Republicans was Reagan. I didn't like it when he challenged Ford and I really didn't like his courting of the evangelical right. I used to watch the 700 Club and other shows of those ilk and I was appalled at the sleazy money grubbing ways of the hosts. And then Reagan took them under his wing. So, I suppose my social liberal feelings started taking over the financial conservative side of me.
To wrap up, witnessing how corps treat employees (I've worked for the same company for 32 years and is pretty good so I'm not thinking so much of my employer), the greed and profit only motive shown by Wall Street and banking, the callousness of insurance companies and people like Betsy McCaughy, Dick Army and Tim Phillips, and finally... the Bush administration (Roberto Gonzales, Monica Goodling, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, et al) have all pushed my sympathies to the left/liberal side of the political world.
So, I don't think many folks grow more liberal as they age, but I have.
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I don't think the classical British political conservatism of the early 20th century (which Churchill was talking about) bears much similarity to the "liberal" and "conservative" factions of American politics today.
I don't think the classical British political conservatism of the early 20th century (which Churchill was talking about) bears much similarity to the "liberal" and "conservative" factions of American politics today.
I was pretty conservative when I was in high school and college. I went to Grove City College which is a very conservative school and fits in very well with today's right wing philosophy. I graduated from college in 1972 so this was during the Viet Nam war era. While I didn't strongly support the war, I wasn't in demonstrations either. I voted for Nixon and Ford. I learned towards the financially conservative ideas but wasn't a passionate promoter of it. But at the same time, I wasn't very religious and I suppose was a social liberal. But back then, Republicans didn't seem to preach morals or values so much as they do now.
But as time has passed, I've become more and more liberal. I won't drag this out, but the first thing that turned me off to Republicans was Reagan. I didn't like it when he challenged Ford and I really didn't like his courting of the evangelical right. I used to watch the 700 Club and other shows of those ilk and I was appalled at the sleazy money grubbing ways of the hosts. And then Reagan took them under his wing. So, I suppose my social liberal feelings started taking over the financial conservative side of me.
To wrap up, witnessing how corps treat employees (I've worked for the same company for 32 years and is pretty good so I'm not thinking so much of my employer), the greed and profit only motive shown by Wall Street and banking, the callousness of insurance companies and people like Betsy McCaughy, Dick Army and Tim Phillips, and finally... the Bush administration (Roberto Gonzales, Monica Goodling, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, et al) have all pushed my sympathies to the left/liberal side of the political world.
So, I don't think many folks grow more liberal as they age, but I have.
Goodness, bagger, our paths may have crossed back in our college days! I went to Pitt and graduated in 1970, a year ahead of most of my high school classmates. Anyway, I was pretty conservative when I arrived there and would have voted for Nixon in 1968 if I had been old enough to vote. (Had to be 21 at the time.) However, the Viet Nam war and the burgeoning women's movement changed me, and by graduation, I was pretty liberal. Haven't changed a whole lot since then. Raising my kids made me a little more conservative socially (not so hot on teen sex, drinking, etc) but I still believe in the "brotherhood" (sic) of all people. My nursing instructors were the first to introduce the idea that "health care is a right" to me, back in the fall of 1968. On that issue, I haven't wavered. We had a lot of military recruiters coming to talk to my nursing class back then, trying to convince us to join up. Since we were taught that every human being deserved health care, I felt I could justify caring for soldiers despite my anti-war views. However, I did not join the military.
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