I was raised the same way. My mom was one of the Naders' Raiders, and she taught me to hug trees-- literally. But she loved to hear Governor Reagan on the radio. That led her out of it, eventually. But she still hates to see cut roses. "They're dead."
I remember in high school: my first brush with a liberal lie was a convoluted circle: facism was at the bottom and communism was at the top. Both right and left supposedly interested with both in a circle.
And the teacher, flaming leftist though he was, he was honest enough to admit that facism, while 'driven by the right', blended with socialism. I asked, "Then why is it a circle? If facism is socialism, it's on the left too, right?" "No," he said, "it's driven by the right." That later re-surfaced from forgotten things when someone brought up the fact here on the FR that Nazis are left wing.
The second encounter with a left wing lie was hearing the head honcho of education talk about how we should passively resist war, like Ghandi. I was fortunate enough to have had experiences with bullies. [They're trying to take that off the ciriculum in schools now, I hear.] Keeping bullies in mind, I realized that you can't resist passively in totalitarian regimes-- only in a free country.
My third encounter was the Congressional Bank scandal. At the time, I concluded that both parties were hopelessly corrupt [note that that Bush's father saying "Read my lips"].
And then came the information age. I got in it early, listening to Weyrich on NET. For some reason, I needed to see it on TV at first, not trusting radio yet. When I heard about partial birth abortion, that was the last straw.
Then I entered the FR prior to registration. What a time that was. Foul mouth leftists were all over the place, trying to disrupt it. I was having fun. But a lot of people were run off.
Still awake? Hehehe!
"Then I entered the FR prior to registration. What a time that was. Foul mouth leftists were all over the place, trying to disrupt it. I was having fun. But a lot of people were run off."
You lost me there. I know FR means Free Republic, but understand nothing else in these sentences. Please explain. I have only been in FR since maybe Feb of this year.