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Originally posted by RKC
If you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative at 40, you have no head! - Sir Winston Churchill
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I had a civics prof say pretty much the same thing way back when. His put was that the longer you were living an adult life, the greater stake you were building in society, the more you had contibuted and the more you had to lose, the more conservative you would become. All of us young liberals laughed at him. This is, however, pretty much the progression I have followed. I was, believe it or not, once quite liberal in my views. I still maintain some very liberal views, but forced to label myself one way or the other, I would choose conservatism.
Sometimes I wonder if I grew away from liberalism, or if it grew away from me. I still support much of the liberal platform that was accepted as such in my younger days. Some of my commitment to those views has softened, but really has not totally gone away. I do find myself at odds with much of today's liberal platform. There are many elements that just were not there when I was younger. That's where I think I lean more towards liberalism having grown away from me, than me away from it. I have not changed that much, but liberalism sure has.