Interesting response. I’ll reply to that later but I’m just interested in your nickname . You were a liberal? what caused you to see the light.
I’m a conservative and always have been . I’m a rugged individualist and believe in freedom. That’s why I’m for very limited government, lower taxes, free market capitalism, freedom,individual rights, property rights, gun rights, free speech rights, pro-life and I’m for deporting illegals. are you for all that or any of that and were you before when you were a liberal?
Well, I support everything listed.
I was a liberal until sometime in the 70s when I had it made perfectly clear to me that the Democrats did not support individualism, bootstrap capitalism or entrepreneurship. I was in my 30s and still an idealist. Then, in the 80s, as we profited under capitalism as small business people, I began to experience political correctness and the attempted forced consensus of groupthink from former friends on the left. I had been totally mistaken in believing the leftist line about supporting liberty and have come to loathe the so-called Progressives.
Back when I joined FR, I picked my screen name because I felt then that my experience on the Left was perhaps valuable in political/ideological discussion. I’ve taken some flak for it over the years, but not that much. There are a lot of former liberals here, now.