[TexasTransplant]

I voted for Carter, that being said it wasn't until Ronald Reagan and then Rush Limbaugh, $500 toilet seats (that I have actually used) then the Clarence Thomas Hearings which put me over the edge where I had to start thinking and paying attention, I just "woke up" (it has become a Curse), now I feel the need to wake up others and now I listen to nothing but News-talk, when I can't get that CD's and if ever ABC news comes on the Radio... it's OFF, I write letters to Radio Stations telling them I may come back if they get rid of ABC

(I'm just 10 - 12 years into what I was ignorant of the first 40 years of my life, and still a bit guilt ridden)

TT

[Michael.SF.]

what I was ignorant of the first 40 years of my life, and still a bit guilt ridden)

We have traveled similar paths (see my profile for more details).

There is no need to feel guilty over the 'sins' of the past. Consider this:

You believed what you had been taught and trusted those in a position of authority to be honest and not to be misleading. As you matured, you began to think for yourself, as you did, you learned the error of THEIR ways, not yours.

An old quote, one you have probably heard before, and one attributed to many (most often to Churchill):

"If you are not a radical at eighteen, you have no heart and if you are not conservative by the time you are forty, you have no brain."

note: there are many variations of this around, but that is the one I remember.