Posted on 05/22/2006 9:03:27 AM PDT by qam1
There's good news for the young and hopelessly naive and liberal: You'll get over it.
It's common knowledge that young people become more conservative as they age. Generation X followed this trend, and indicators suggest Generation Y will be no different.
I understand what life is like on a typical college campus and have gripped with the misplaced mental energies of youth. I can empathize with the temptations of liberal cynicism, the appeal of academic elitism and an almost embarrassingly idealistic view of world affairs.
But I fought the urges, and so can you.
For all the graduates of 2007, soon you will begin being mugged by reality. As you grow more distant from the ivory towers and struggle to root yourself in the middle class, your liberal tendencies will become but a memory.
Perhaps you'll look back on these days and laugh.
Maybe you'll even wise up and realize that if you weren't so scared of the military, you could have signed up for the armed forces and done something worthwhile.
But in the meantime, to avoid embarrassment down the road, it may be prudent to stay quiet until your liberal urges pass.
For example, I've noticed a handful of columns in student newspapers and in "New Voices" that advocate the U.S. pursue unilateral disarmament in order to defuse tensions with Iran.
I enjoy a good laugh as much as the next guy, but this is a joke I've heard one too many times. If you're liberal and feel like shooting your mouth off about unilateral disarmament, I beg you to reconsider. A potential employer could Google your name, read that column, find out what a bonehead you are and not hire you.
If you don't realize how stupid unilateral disarmament is, don't worry. Just wait a few.....
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Because I made a remark in the post I pinged you to about getting chicks with long hair. Since it's only polite to ping people in posts where you talk about them, and since you're one of the chicks, I thought I would ping you.
Additionally, I thought you might have an interest in the thread, if not the story, because of comments you've made on your profile page about your former status as an uninformed voter.
We need to get Matthew Melone on-board here at FreeRepublic.
The only reason I was a liberal when I was young was because my family was conservative. (Rebellion) I hung in limbo for a number of years..mostly apathetic til my son was little- then I started paying attention again and realized I didn't believe what I thought I did. My SON started listening to Rush when he was about 10 (does to this day) ...and told me I might learn something if I listened to him:) He was right.
I loved the Dead and went to every concert I could (even paid $150 a ticket to take a girlfriend to see them). I really enjoyed the whole "hippie" scene even though I politically disagreed with all of them.
Of course, I think it was different 15 years ago when I was in college because you didn't have the rabid anti-Bush sort of stuff. Most of them didn't care about politics, they just voted Democrat cause they knew that's what they were supposed to do.
Don't get me wrong. Boyfriends can value. Eventually one will turn into a son-in-law and become useful.
Girlfriends are good at helping sons grow up and become useful.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Great book.
Absolutely.
I first read it like 30 years ago. I can't remember how many times I have re-read it.
Larry Niven Rocks.
Paying taxes cured me around 20 years old.
Xer Ping
Ping list for the discussion of the politics and social (and sometimes nostalgic) aspects that directly effects Generation Reagan / Generation-X (Those born from 1965-1981) including all the spending previous generations (i.e. The Baby Boomers) are doing that Gen-X and Y will end up paying for.
Freep mail me to be added or dropped. See my home page for details and previous articles.
The 2 catalysts that changed me virtually immediately?
Neal Boortz and my first post-college paycheck of significant dollar amount. I looked at the amount that went to various taxes and became enraged!
I didn't have long hair, lol.
Oh, you meant your long hair!!
Yeah, I was joking when I asked why you pinged me. I thought for sure it was because I voted for Clinton in 92.
**smacks forehead**
I've always been a foreign policy and defense conservative, since I was 18 -- and try being that at the University of Michigan. If I wasn't already a fiscal conservative then, I was soon after I graduated.
But social issues.... I've never been particularly conservative; they just weren't part of my political considerations. But as I get older, I've been noticing a stronger move to the left -- even with a now adult step-daughter and a preteen son. I'm not sure how much that has been a change of view -- after all I did sign up here as Celtjew Libertarian -- and how much it has been they're becomming more important to me.
How long does it take? I know a 36 year old who is still a whining liberal. Of course, he doesn't have children and isn't married. Although he does have a liberal girlfriend. He still complains about his parents and acts like a 12 year old.
I've actually found that today's high school and college age kids are more conservative than 20 years ago.
Uh-hu. Teeners (the majority) take after their peers, the media and the professors/teachers.
As they get older, they find out that what they think is more important than what others think of them.
When we are old we know that what others think of us doesn't matter at all.
One exception: I meet surprising young people now and then and read about them - they have their feet on the ground and their heads on straight right through their youths. Every generation seems to have them. Good thing.
With a part time job, and classes, and 3 to 5 nights a week of playing out in the bars, I never had time to be a "well informed" liberal.
Had my first job at 16 and had my first "Who the hell is FICA" moment, which turned me into a fiscal conservative early. It was Milton Friedman who finally showed me the light.
There was a great PBS show I remember from the 80s . . called Free To Choose which gave me my first glimpse into the failings of socialism.
Love it.
The "Limbaugh" factor is going to bite the left in the butt big time. That's why they've been so frantic to try to silence him from day one.
It's too late to stop him now. We have two whole generations of highly informed "Limbaugh kids" who can never be turned into useful idiots either for the leftist RINOS or for the DemocRATS.
Tee Hee.
Ah I hope God willing I live to see these flaming liberals repeat the words "I am a conservative!'Would be worth getting old to see.
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