was you a liberal before becoming a conservative or vias versa?

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when i was i school i was a liberal, i didn't join the military i was againist war NO MATTER WHAT i didn't care about anything but myself but when i got out and started a life of my own and had to take of myself i slowly started paying attention to what was going on around me and in my country, i started looking at the different veiws (lib & con) and realized that the way i was thinking was wrong for me. when i saw how some people would put a plants or a animals life ahead of a humans life or the advancement of man NO MATTER WHAT or wanted to take away my freedom to bear arms and the right use public lands and do away with the military that protected those rights, i knew i wasn't a liberal.
looking back i wish i had joined the military and had started paying attention to life and the things that went on around me sooner, but i didn't and now i am glad to be a conservative and i'm not the only i care about anymore. so how about it? are you lib turn con or a con turned lib?

Answer 1

You are a liberal growing up but once you get a job and start working you become Conservative

Answer 2

I used to be a conservative until my cousin was killed. Then I started paying more and more attention to what was going on around me and saw how screwed up being a conservative was.

I'm an independent with strong liberal ideas.

To Feelsgood, I would have to say that your feelings about the military being more conservative is wrong. I know way more liberals in the military than I do conservatives. We leave the military because of the persecution we under go. I've had my profile placed on gay.com because of my views on several occasions. The last time it happened we knew it wasn't me because there was an entire month that half the ship didn't have internet access. We know who did it, but nothing happened to him. That was one of the last straws for me.

Answer 3

I was very much a liberal tell I join the Navy and saw the world.
So how great it is here compare to other places.
Than I decided to become an EMT to help people. After being shot at while helping a guy that was hurt. The shooter thought I was trying to arrest his friend.
Pull someone out of car that than caught fire and face a law suit because the gal now had a scare. I got harden.

So I found other work than on 9/11 I knew we were at war. My buddies in the service were going places that they couldn't tell me about some didn't come back. A guy that lived a few doors down from the house I grew up was killed in Iraq.
Talk to vets coming back and hearing how the press got is getting it wrong.

I became a conservative. I love this country so many people we don't know are in places making sure we are safe. They have stories to tell but they can't.

I remember others that were at the WTC. One of the staffers at the Pentagon faces to most but now memories to others.

We need to put away the con vs lib junk. We need to get our heads in the game. There are real people out there that want to do us harm. It isn't Bush, Clinton, Kerry, or Chenny. It isn't about Bushco or big oil. It is about us staying a free nation.

The rants I have heard from liberals here sadden me. They don't know the storm is coming we stop there or wait tell it gets here.

Answer 4

Well at 1st was a hard-core conservative, then I became a liberal, now I guess I would consider my self a moderate liberal. I have some conservative views and many liberal views. I know now I'm a conservative when it comes to fiscal responsibility, size of the government and law enforcement. I'm a liberal in the realms of economic fairness, equality, and i take the liberal view on most social topics, I'll probably change again later on down the road.

No one side holds all of the right answers.

Answer 5

Neither. I was a democrat when I was younger because I grew up in a northeastern city. I didn't support the Vietnam conflict and I don't support this liberation. I'm now an Independent because I support people, not party. Both parties are broken and I can only hope the November elections sent the message to our elected officials we are tired of the bull crap. Fix things here in America. New Orleans, an American city. Health care an American concern. Illegal aliens in our country, it's an invasion, stop it. Stop bickering and do some positive things for the American people who voted you into office.

Answer 6

I was a liberal when I was a kid. I believed gov't could legislate solutions to social problems. Later, when I developed interests in economics and understanding cause & effect, I quickly became a conservative libertarian. Too often, liberal solutions just make things worse, because they believe good intentions are enough to conquer issues, rather than by using subtler methods like incentives.

I too consider it a mistake not to have joined the military back when I graduated in the early 80's. They were offering me a sweet deal on college and becoming an officer, and like a moron I still had the liberal anti-military mindset. I never did finish college on my own.

Answer 7

I have seen many testimonials expressing their regret in not serving when opportunity came.
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I would say that the military is overwhelming NOT liberal.

How does the saying go, If you aren't a liberal when you are young, you have no heart. If you aren't a conservative when you are old its because you have no brain.



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Liberalism is ok when it is practiced.

But todays America's liberals, are not real liberals.

They are against change of all types and devoid of new idea's or solutions to problems.

Conservatives offered many new programs and initiatives the last 6 years, and liberals always fought against them, with never an original idea or solution to offer in return.


Liberals love it whan a woman murders a child that is unborn but hate it when criminals who rape, murder and commit attrocities get the death penality.

In reality the liberals of today are Stalinists and Marxists. Their belief that government is the solution to all problems and no wealth show be privately owned is what drives todays liberals.

They are also anti-American. They believe America is the worlds problem and the world would be better off without America in it.

Liberals are all for forsaking the poor weak and downtrodden if America's military is involved in keeping them alive, but insist on keeping America's poor weak and downtrodden in their miserable existance because of 'political correctness', (New Orleans and any urban city).

Answer 8

when i was a kid listening to the adults I kinda followed along the con thinking.
Then as i got to highschool college age and rebelliousness set in i went to the lib side...
Then I finally realized modern liberalism offers not a single solution for anything only complaints about how things are.
If I had to label myself anything now it would be a moderate conservative.
I vote issues. I care little about party lines and I research issues for decisions.

Answer 9

Used to be a liberal. More conservative now. There was a line in a movie that was something like, being too open minded to where your brains fall out. Until I got out on my own and had kids.....heck everything was fine by me. Now it's not. Guess that's what happens when you grow up.

Answer 10

i exchange into apolitical and ignorant until the age of 14 (conservawha? demowho?), i exchange into presented to politics by a historic previous instructor with an time table, it exchange into appropriate around 9/11, so which you will guess what the subject remember exchange into approximately (although we coated plenty greater subjects throughout the time of), it then inspired me to study debates, study what human beings have been worried approximately and the why, etc until I discovered greater on politics oftentimes. when I study the place the divisions lied and the arguments in the back of them i began asking the instructor question while the debate grew to become political, via the class i exchange into additionally bowled over relating to the aggressiveness I gained from different scholars from questioning him, for particular I it pushed me into their opposing ideology.

Answer 11

I started out Republican because my parents are, and from then on I've bounced back and forth many times, though mostly sticking to the Conservative side of things. Now-a-days, I think I've found a happy medium between them, but I probably wouldn't call myself Independent, because the Independents I know have a "screw both of them" attitude, and I don't relate. I dunno. I'll have plenty of time to figure stuff out. ^^