In a weird way, being right wing, is starting to become the equal of being left wing back in the 50 or early 60's. Its the renagade rebel thing. When I was in college, I used to love provoking my socialist teachers, the fact that they couldn't debate themselves out of a brown paper bag, made it even better.I got a kick out of calling my self an anti-environmentalist.
Honestly, I'm grown up now, but the fact is, being right, and being a rebel, do have an appeal, when idiots are around, you will always have the urge to show them up, and being smarter, and different, does have a awesome appeal.
When I was in college, I used to love provoking my socialist teachers, the fact that they couldn't debate themselves out of a brown paper bag, made it even better.I got a kick out of calling my self an anti-environmentalist. So...what kind of grades did they give you? In my experience in dealing with liberals who have power over you, they pretend they respect your position...until the grades come out.
But now that I am in the adult world where people pay taxes, the minority of people where I work are liberal and I can provoke them pretty much all I want.
A bit off subject but in my attempts at provoking, I find that some liberals are pissed off about our appeasement of the illegal border crossers--this to me was suprising
I am bothered by these kids losing the social issue part of conservatism (excepting abortion). But, I am not sure if this is common everywhere, as the conservatives at my school that I know are not for gay marriages.