My parents were very liberal anti war types during the Vietnam war but today are quite conservative. My mother says that the anti war equation just didn't add up any more and she had nothing to show for past protests aside from a gap in her education and career.
They had a brain. And common sense. You should be grateful every day for that - having parents who are willing to learn from their mistakes. Most Vietnam-era liberals never did.
Problem is, liberals WON basically everything they fought for in the 60's. Civil Rights, Vietnam, environmentalism, abortion,etc. They don't really have a reason to exist in the 00's. Everything they supposedly "stand" for now is a perversion of what were once "principled" stances. I was taught from childhood to judge a person by their character, not their skin. Now liberals want a persons skin color to be the ONLY thing I judge a person by when it comes to things like college admissions. They have become the establishment and they don't like it when I ask questions about their hypocrisy