Posted on 07/21/2019 3:38:05 PM PDT by DGravalloni
I disagree.
LOL
Atlas Shrugged also sealed the deal for me. Many decades ago.
Your move.
The quote: "If you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative at 30, you have no brain."
The quote is often attributed to Churchill, but he did not say it:
https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/quotes-falsely-attributed/
However, many people did say something similar:
The first time I read it was in college for a class. I was young, wet-behind-the-ears and inexperienced in the ways of the world. I read it but didn't really understand it. "Who is John Galt" was a popular saying but it didn't register with me.
Then I read it again in the Air Force and the light came on. I understood what Ayn Rand was saying. Not big on her objectivism but everything else.
The next time was the summer before the 2012 election when Obama won his second term. I couldn't believe how closely the novel matched what was actually happening in our country at the time. Ayn Rand was very prescient when she wrote this timeless tome back in the 1950s. She seem to foretell by decades what was going to happen with the looters in charge.
I'm getting tired of murder mysteries and historical non-fiction books I read all the time now. So I'm getting ready to read her novel again.
My favorite chapter is on the 20th Century Motor Works and how the spoiled, liberal kids of the deceased owner, run the company into the ground using their socialist ideas. Reminds my of AO-C and how her Green New Deal would do the same.
Thanks.
Welcome and congrates!
Check out Hillsdale College’s course on the Constitution.
Sounds like the quote or something similar is attributed to a lot of people.
That should be on your about page. Welcome to FR. Good luck on your awakening. Watch out for the Viking Kitties.
Reads like a heart felt conversion from liberal to conservative thinking.
Needs better paragraphing, IMO.
It’s a mastermind of a setup if your intention is to troll.
Being blunt because I don’t trust liberals or recently converted liberals.
Time will tell. Welcome to FR.
It is also FR custom to respond to each and every post on your introduction thread.
Congratulations on embarking on your quest for intellectual honesty. It's a whole lotta work. If you keep at it, it will eventually feel more comfortable. It can take a long time.
You will pay a personal price for walking away. Some of your progressive friends will now regard you as apostate. Apostates are sometimes treated very badly by true believers.
Don't back down.
Also, I am sorry to learn that that you lost all your firearms in that tragic boating accident. Many Freepers had a similar experience.
Just an FYI. If the Illegal Invaders Voted Republican instead of Democrat, you would be able to see the Bill Clinton Southern Border Wall from Space.
That tells you all you need to know about the Democrat Party wanting any Border Security. They lied, just like the RINO’s lied.
Welcome. Free Republic is a great place to hang out. Take it slowly, there’s a long-established culture here. Read more than you write for a while, but welcome!
Welcome to FR.
Interesting post and I am looking forward to reading the second part.
A FRiendly bit of advice.
Respond to posts to your thread.
People who post only threads and never respond to them are viewed with suspicion. They are called *hit and run* posters and we have encountered our share of them.
Welcome to FR yourself.
Glad to have you aboard also.
While that is generally true, if all you've ever seen is a steady diet of the lying MSM, then unless you are exposed to the truth, you won't even know it's out there.
Nope, all liberals. I live in a very liberal area.
Nope, all liberal. It was a very liberal area. The news on TV was liberal. Everything was. College was.
Thank you
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