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Originally Posted by gmeteer
... Being conservative may also be a result of getting older and wiser, and seeing enough examples of liberal ideas and policies gone bad.
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Maybe. But maybe it is a result of growing bitter and angry as you get older. You need to know what to be afraid of and who to blame for it!
See what I mean? This is a fool's errand. You do not have to ascribe positive, wise traits to the guy that thinks like you do nor negative character traits to the person that doesn't think as you do. Yet we all seem to have to do it.
Maybe he just thinks differently than you. Feels differently than you do? Why must it be character or intellectual superiority or inferiority?
Conservative - You're a bleeding heart liberal!
Liberal - At least I have a heart, you unfeeling monster.
This advances...................what? NOTHING.
In reality the way an issue plays out over time is that the liberal point of view serves as one curb in the road, and the conservative point of view serves as the other curb in the road. The ship of state (car? Porsche?) goes approximately down the middle of the road bouncing off the curbs, sometimes more to one side than the other but keeps traveling the road, albeit with some suspension damage!
