[Xenophon450]

I believe many who arrive at FR have natural proclivities towards liberalism, they know nothing else. FR changed me, although I had always been against strengthening government power, the studious observations from its many erudite posters enabled me to articulate it in a much better fashion then before. It introduced my economically ignorant point of view (As evidenced by some of my earlier posts) to the Free Market. Me and the Free Market have hit it off ever since. Never heard of Ludwig von Mises until reading on FR, and I am at a loss for whatever else I may have missed if not for FR.

As a child I always loved current events, geography, history and even watched the CBS nightly news, which allowed liberalism to seep in almost unbeknownst to my conscious mind. Also Public schools may have had a hand in this dubious brainwashing endeavor. ;-P

Thanks Jim, for changing one individual for the better. I am sure the same could be said for many others.

[manc]

at school I always loved History and geography, still do especially History which I never stop learning about

It does seem that those who know these subjects tend to be more conservative.
Now I have lived in many countries and have settled here in this great country, I love history and I think because we know history we tend not to want to see it repeated in many cases,

Now the liberals seem to not have a clue about history they prefer art and crafts instead.
They try to rewrite history to suit their arts and crafts world .
They like their little world where there is no violence, tyrants etc so for the future they turn a blind eye to it as they do not seem to understand that ignorance leads to more problems down the road.

Hope you see what I am getting at