No. I’d say you’ve come back from the edge.
Reformed liberal, remember?
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Really. They drove me nuts and I had to boogie before I succumbed. Been driven to deconstruct them ever since (40 years and counting).
Don't feel bad. I'm a reformed hippie child.
I was a filthy liberal until about the age of twenty or so.
I stood on the corner of our main streets in my small town with some friends on election day with a "Carter is Smarter" sign in my hand. And I VOTED for the idiot!!!
Me and another hippie friend of mine, argued with this guy on our cross country team for hours, explaining to him how Nixon was the worst form of scumbag. I would love to find him now and apologize and tell him how wrong I was and how right he was.
My conversion began the day I asked my dad, with my dirty liberal mouth, "Dad? How come everything can't be free?"
He answered, "Because then nobody would work."
That shut me up and got me to thinking. And here I am, lo these many years later. To the right of Ghengis Kahn.
Thanks, Dad.
So yea. Most smart people overcome the indoctrination with time. And you are VERY smart.