If I may inquire, I’m curious as to how you managed to turn out OK. Was thee one seminal event, or one person, that opened your eyes, or did your conservatism just “evolve.”
Hey Ken, Thanks for asking how I turned out conservative amid all the liberalism. My father was a staunch conservative from a family of die-hard democrats. My mom came from a religious home of Republican parents who converted my Dad when he married my Mom. Though my Mom was conservative, my Dad was a passionate conservative. You know how a convert often becomes the most converted? That was my Dad. In middle elementary school I was already working with my Dad on letter writing campaigns to congressman for the NRA. We always discussed current politics at the dinner table. I was well informed in my childhood years on communism, socialism and what made America the Beacon on the Hill. He instilled in me a passion for the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. He also discussed abortion with me at a young age. He told me there was nothing so horrible that it should end the life of a child. No matter what happened to me and how horrible I felt or the shame I felt, a child of mine would always be loved in our home. (Though with the values I had that was never an issue that had to worry about.). With all that said, my sibling is a flaming liberal, and the majority of my cousins from the same grandparents are as well. My husband is like I am and our children are as well. My father is long passed, and sometimes I am glad he has not lived to see the destruction in this country, and the fact that many of his own posterity support it. It would have broken his heart.
Hey Ken, Thanks for asking how I turned out conservative amid all the liberalism. My father was a staunch conservative from a family of die-hard democrats. My mom came from a religious home of Republican parents who converted my Dad when he married my Mom. Though my Mom was conservative, my Dad was a passionate conservative. You know how a convert often becomes the most converted? That was my Dad. In middle elementary school I was already working with my Dad on letter writing campaigns to congressman for the NRA. We always discussed current politics at the dinner table. I was well informed in my childhood years on communism, socialism and what made America the Beacon on the Hill. He instilled in me a passion for the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. He also discussed abortion with me at a young age. He told me there was nothing so horrible that it should end the life of a child. No matter what happened to me and how horrible I felt or the shame I felt, a child of mine would always be loved in our home. (Though with the values I had that was never an issue that had to worry about.). With all that said, my sibling is a flaming liberal, and the majority of my cousins from the same grandparents are as well. My husband is like I am and our children are as well. My father is long passed, and sometimes I am glad he has not lived to see the destruction in this country, and the fact that many of his own posterity support it. It would have broken his heart.