Based on my life experience, including living in Berkeley, I would suggest this adjustment to the steps:
1. Admit you are a liberal
2. Find a Conservative, sit down with him or her, and explain your position as a liberal with clear facts and support those facts with documentation you have researched
3. Immediately purchase a ticket to any of the following countries and pledge to stay there at least six months - Russia, Cuba, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, or Iran
4. Open a checking account and pledge to do the following: no longer accept any monetary assistance from parents, grandparents, strangers, trust funds, social services agencies or charitable organizations, and to not accept any other form of free compensation or assistance. Balance check book monthly.
5. Pledge to read the Wall Street Journal daily
6. Find and acquire a job with a small, privately owned business that is set up as a corporation, preferrably a family-owned business, and learn as much as you can about the operation of the business
7. Join a community committee to clean up parks, repair a children's playground or assist in a charitable soup kitchen and learn about 'government' of any group
8. Visit a farm that produces food and learn about the growing and marketing process of the products produced on that farm
9. Don't inhale, injest, swallow, sniff, chew etc any substance that is not a member of the three basic food groups
10. Enjoy a big plate of spaghetti, enchaladas, weinerschneitzel or any other robust 'ethnic' food that has been contributed to our culture by the immigrants who came to this country and REALLY made a difference through hard work
11. Read several well-written biographies of founders of the U.S., including but not limited to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton.
12. Take a long, hot bath, get a nice shave and haircut, clean and cut your fingernails and put on new clean underwear and clothing that was purchased by you with your earnings from number 6 above, not from your trust fund or other source of 'free' income, and then take a walk down a clean sidewalk in a nice part of any town in the U.S. of A.
Good luck on your recovery.
2. Find a Conservative, sit down with him or her, and explain your position as a liberal with clear facts and support those facts with documentation you have researched
I haven't met many libs who can do this part, explain and support beliefs with facts. LOL, what a great way to get the libs to see the idiocy of their 'beliefs'. Unless they revert to the usual name calling and cursing before storming off (a common response when their beliefs are questioned).
excellent list.
"3. Immediately purchase a ticket to any of the following countries and pledge to stay there at least six months - Russia, Cuba, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, or Iran"
My version of this was: I had a job in Silicon Valley in the mid-1980s, and a coworker was a Jew who had emigrated from the Soviet Union. Being Jewish myself, we ended up becoming friends. Along with happening upon the book How Democracies Perish, by Revel, this was the inflection point in my lifelong journey from liberalism to conservativism.