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A liberal is a conservative who hasn't been mugged yet
6/14/2010 | jaysin1234

Posted on 06/15/2010 6:12:37 AM PDT by Jaysin

There is a famous expression that "A liberal is a conservative who hasn't been mugged yet"

I would like to ask my fellow Freepers if they know of any REAL accounts of people (liberals) who turned to the right after being mugged.

I don't specifically mean "mugged" physically, but someone who perhaps lost a job because of "diversity", or someone who screamed about homeless rights until a low-income housing project was built a 1/4 mile from their house etc....

I just want to hear some good stories of liberals getting smacked in the face with reality.

On the flip side, I wouldn't mind hearing stories of a conservative that flipped to the liberal side because of something.


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To: KarlInOhio
I seem to recall that Michael Savage (nee Weiner) was a stone cold, long haired, liberal hippie out of Berkeley when he hit the job market - and it hit back. It seems that all his street cred as a born in New York, West Coast liberal couldn't hold a candle to affirmative action. His world view imploded and from the ruins rose the egocentric conservative who loves to pontificate on the evils of liberalism.
21 posted on 06/15/2010 6:53:32 AM PDT by Thommas (The snout of the camel is in the tent..)
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To: Jaysin

I met a very annoying Jewish woman at a funeral this weekend. She recently completed her medical residency as a surgeon, and is now seeking employmnet.

When I asked her how liability insurance for PA (philly) compared with NJ, she got all huffy. At one point she said something to the effect of “I hate Republicans, but they’re right about the need for liability reform.”

I see a reluctant conversion in her future, though I’m not sure we’re any better off with her on the team. Very annoying.


22 posted on 06/15/2010 6:56:53 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (In last year's nests, there are no birds this year.)
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To: Jaysin

A good example is David Horowitz.
Born to hard core communist parents.
Now he is farther to the right than Limbaugh.
Don’t know what brought on the conversion, but that is a long journey.


23 posted on 06/15/2010 6:58:05 AM PDT by Texas resident (Outlaw fisherman)
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To: A_perfect_lady

I see this in our schools as well. The young teachers are idealistic, the older teachers more reasoned. Older teachers that haven’t made the conversion are either delusional, or union hacks.


24 posted on 06/15/2010 6:59:57 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (In last year's nests, there are no birds this year.)
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To: Lakeshark

when did you graduate college?


25 posted on 06/15/2010 7:01:41 AM PDT by Jaysin
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To: Jaysin

I leaned a bit liberal, in an unthinking sort of way.

Until I got a job and saw how much I actually got to keep out of my paycheck.

If there was any lingering doubt, it disappeared when I bought a house and started paying property taxes.

There’s a reason that leftistism is prevalent in those who aren’t actually paying any of its bills.

But that just got me to see that liberalism was an abject failure.

What made me a conservative, (who, more accurately), was Ronald Reagan.


26 posted on 06/15/2010 7:01:58 AM PDT by chrisser (Starve the Monkeys!)
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To: Jaysin
It's more where I went. I transferred from a small university (Lehigh) and finished at Boston University.

I actually took classes from Howard Zinn.......

I actually think that helped in the long run.

27 posted on 06/15/2010 7:11:19 AM PDT by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: Texas resident
Don’t know what brought on the [David Horowitz] conversion, but that is a long journey.

He tells you what happened in Radical Son which I consider to be one of the best autobiographies ever written.

28 posted on 06/15/2010 7:20:51 AM PDT by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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To: ConservativeWarrior
Older teachers that haven’t made the conversion are either delusional, or union hacks (or both).
29 posted on 06/15/2010 7:22:12 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( - Free Men will always be armed with the Truth. -)
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To: Jaysin
"A liberal is a conservative who hasn't been mugged yet"

And a Progressive is a mugger

30 posted on 06/15/2010 7:23:49 AM PDT by tophat9000 (.............................. BP + BO = BS ...........................Formula for a disaster...)
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To: Lakeshark

I’m surprised you didn’t have to go through therapy after dealing with that loon Zinn, considering his revisionist ideas of American history.


31 posted on 06/15/2010 7:26:04 AM PDT by princeofdarkness ("Obama Lied. Liberty, Morality, and Prosperity Died.")
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To: princeofdarkness
He was so over the top crazy, it helped me run as far and as quickly as possible from his ideas.

I think he came to class stoned, plus it was rumored that lot of the not so smart girls got A's for their efforts........

He was really popular with a lot of students, his anti-America schtick sold well.

I think that's still common at most campuses.

32 posted on 06/15/2010 7:33:35 AM PDT by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: Lakeshark

I was a lib by default going into college. Was rankled by the plethora of posters and notices for the Affirmative Action stuff - got into a bit of an argument or two in a class or two. Couldn’t see why holding me and other young, white males back today was the right way to compensate for non-white, non-males being held back a decade ago. Took up “Affirmative Action; poisoning the future to correct the past” as my mantra.


33 posted on 06/15/2010 7:35:26 AM PDT by flowerplough (Damn the middle-class social conventions that require me to mow all those violets and buttercups!)
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To: Jaysin

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/letter_of_amends_from_a_recove.html

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/how_to_deprogram_a_liberal_in.html


34 posted on 06/15/2010 9:39:58 AM PDT by Eddings
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To: Melas
a liberal is a conservative who’s been indicted.

Or just received a government grant! LOL!

35 posted on 06/15/2010 9:42:27 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Auntie Mame
David Horowitz's...He tells you what happened in Radical Son which I consider to be one of the best autobiographies ever written.

Bump Radical Son..Hand it to a liberal who is willing to read it.

36 posted on 06/15/2010 9:48:06 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Jaysin
For posterity:

“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”

-Winston Churchill

37 posted on 06/15/2010 9:52:52 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Texas resident

IIRC his transformation was started by the murder of a friend by the Black Panthers, whom he had supported up to that time.


38 posted on 06/15/2010 10:05:58 AM PDT by crusher (Political Correctness: Stalinism Without the Charm)
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To: vanilla swirl

Some of us are just trying to get by. ;)


39 posted on 06/15/2010 10:45:31 AM PDT by BenKenobi (I want to hear more about Sam! Samwise the stouthearted!)
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