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fintsone,
Yeah, I used to be a moderate conservative but this election is moving me further to the right. I just see so much babble and so little substance from the other side. And you're right, I place blame where it belongs and if that means on myself then so it is. Funny in 16 years of friendship my friend has NEVER admited he was wrong yet is very quick to point out the faults in others. I've faced a lot of adversity in my adult life, a strong contrast to the relatively easy upbringing I had. I've beaten back the self-medication of alcoholism for panic disorder and fixed most of the screw ups that addiction caused. Found myself nearly penniless and on disability due to that illness yet pulled it together and went ot culinary school. I quit school early to take what I thought would be the dream job of executive chef only to have the dream fall apart when the ownership fell apart. Found a new but lower paying job at a restaurant in need of my professional help and we had our biggest year ever under my leadership in the kitchen until the landlord decided to sell the property to condo developers. During this time my then fiancee (now wife) got pregnant and we were in no shape to be parents. Gave up my drag car for my daughter and never looked back. Then I got a part time position doing maintenance for my now brother-in-law (married to my wife's sister). That was 6 years ago, now I'm in charge of product development under my brother-in-law's semi-retired father who founded the company and aquired two patents with another pending. Learned to weld, machine and design machinery and test instruments by reading and doing. I also oversee all of our equipment including a Windows 2000 domain running on a dual CPU server I built from ebay parts. I only say this to point out an important state of mind. I go through life asking myself how I can do better, what can I learn today? etc. I don't know any liberals with an attitude like mine but I know several conservatives that do.
Sometimes I think I should write a book, "How addiction and adversity saved my life"
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