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Excellent article! It took a madman trying to break into my house at 5 am one morning wanting to "spread some love" to change my views on gun control. It took 2 miscarriages to change my views on abortion. It took moving to a city with a high crime rate, to change my utopian vision of a peaceful society. Those things were just a start. I was a hopeless "liberal drunk" for 32 years, I am celebrating my 8th year of "conservative sobriety".

I was a hopeless "liberal drunk" for 32 years, I am celebrating my 8th year of "conservative sobriety"

Welcome to the club! My name is Mom, and I have been sober for 10 years. It sure feels good!

Liberalism was fine for me so long as I didn't think about what I was actually saying or thinking. It offered convenient answers to all sorts of questions. I actually voted for Clinton in 1992. By 1994 I had finally figured out that he was corrupt and capable of absolutely anything.

Of course, by 1993 I had started reading "conservative" books. That spelled the end for my liberal wordlview. Allan Bloom's Closing of the American Mind was like electro-shock therapy to me; it had the effect of changing my entire view of the left, about "progress," about such things as affirmative action, the universities.

And with the birth of my son I came to understand that abortion is the most heartless, thoughtless, and inhuman bit of social engineering in American society today. There was no way for me to reconcile my feelings as a father with the supposed "need" for this abomination. It was the most visceral, human reaction to anything I've ever had in my entire life.