I think as he puts it, many have a “turn” in their life. I did.
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Me too. Only a lot earlier. I was always a right wing conservative and a social liberal. That is until the day I looked back at the wreckage I had left in my wake thru life. If the left was horribly wrong about the ‘free love’ stuff, what else were they wrong about. I woke up, or did the turn, on social liberalism. They were wrong won everything.
You don’t help people by giving them things. You help them by showing them how to get things themselves.
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Growing up in very liberal Germany (USAF brat), with liberal friends, liberal TV, liberal teachers, going to a liberal university there and then here... I thought I was liberal, and maybe I was in a classical sense (maximize liberty). But I somehow knew even back then I didn’t fit in and at 18 I bought a gun and motorcycle with everyone thinking I was crazy...
But I guess the realization that I wasn’t what I thought I was came in stages. I got married, I started working and paying taxes, had children, I traveled the world (not as a tourist), and I started managing people. By the time I was 27-29 I was on the completely other side of the spectrum.
Now I have to listen to my daughter teach me about all these great leftist ideas she gets her head filled with in college and the media (all the same crap just with new packaging). Yippie, I hope in 10 years she’ll grow up.
But those people that live from the government hand, with housing, health care, food cards, public transit, free phones... They are on a plantation, and just like most slaves could have realistically escaped but never dared, these people are in a cage constructed for them which few ever escape.
“You don’t help people by giving them things. You help them by showing them how to get things themselves.”
But the left doesn’t give them their things, they steal them from you at gunpoint, keep a good chunk of it and then distribute the crumbs.