"I used to be a liberal in my youth. Healed and cured!"
If you're not a liberal in your 20's - 30's you have no heart. If you're not a conservative after that....you have no brain. ;)
I was worse than a liberal. I thought I was a little revolutionary. I thought Ho Chi Minh was a saintly leader. I protested the war in Viet Nam. I thought Nixon was the Devil himself. I thought all drugs should be legal and there should be a guaranteed minimum wage. Etc.
I entirely repudiate my former idiocy. It's as though that person and the current "me" are two different people.
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