2007-06-12 08:45:41 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
The same reason that most college kids are flaming liberals until they graduate and have to face the real world, instead of looking at the world in the abstract.
It takes that one defining moment, like this one below. illustrates why people become conservatives.
One time there was a young teenage girl who was about to finish her first year of college. She considered herself to be a very liberal Democrat and her father was a rather staunch Republican.
One day she was challenging her father on his beliefs and his opposition to programs like welfare. He stopped her and asked her how she was doing in school. She answered that she had a 4.0 GPA but it was really tough. She had to study all the time, never had time to go out and party and often went sleepless because all of the studying. She didn't have
time for a boyfriend and didn't really have many college friends because of all her studying.
He then asked how her friend Mary, that was attending the same college, was doing. She replied that she was barely getting by. She had a 2.0 GPA, never studied. She was very popular on campus and was at parties all the time. She often wouldn't show up for classes because she was hung over.
He then asked his daughter why she didn't go to the Dean's office and ask why she couldn't take 1.0 off her 4.0 and give it to her friend that only had a 2.0. That way they would both have a 3.0 GPA.
The daughter fired back and said "WHAT!? No way! I worked really hard for mine and my friend has done nothing! She went out and partied, cut class, slept in, ignored her responsibilities and drank and did drugs while I worked hard, studied and sacrificed to get where I am now. Why should I have to give her what I worked so hard to get? That’s not fair".
The father smiled and said: "My dear, welcome to the Republican Party".
When people (mainly at work) ask me why I am a conservative and why I am against welfare...I like to use this simple story to irrefutably outline why I am against rewarding people for laziness.
2007-06-12 08:49:56 · answer #1 · answered by ganjaman415 3 · 11⤊ 3⤋
Social change. The first crop of Southern Dixie-crats switched parties because a Democrat, Lyndon Johnson, signed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts in the mid 1960's. The second crop switched in the late 1970's and early 1980's as the Republican party embraced evangelicals and faux populist ideology.
2007-06-12 08:53:48 · answer #2 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 5⤋
Because people become more conservative as they get older in an effort to preserve the past which is familiar to them and about which they naturally feel sentimental a part of.
Also when you are young you feel you can change the world and when you get older you realize you did not. So rather than admit failure you embrace the status quo.
2007-06-12 08:55:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Most of them were southern segregationist Democrats who started becoming Republicans when that party opposed civil rights legislation.
They are not missed.
2007-06-12 08:52:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Because any one with sense would want to set themselves apart from the nuts on the left. The democratic party is becoming the party of socialists, and the GOP is becoming the party of moderates.
2007-06-12 08:50:33 · answer #5 · answered by The Reaganite 3 · 9⤊ 2⤋
Maybe it is for the same reason that more people are in the Democratic party in the first place. Actually I have seen more people on this blog claiming to go from Republican to either independant or Democrat. I would like to see your statistics. Can you give some examples of websites that prove that?
2007-06-12 08:52:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 6⤋
I know there are others, but Reagan is the only one I can think of.
There doesnt seem to be that high of a number of them really.
2007-06-12 08:57:22 · answer #7 · answered by Showtunes 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The longer you hang around politics the more corrupt you become.
2007-06-12 09:03:45 · answer #8 · answered by Dastardly 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They got smart some where along the road.
2007-06-12 08:53:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Check your facts, you have that backwards. Years ago Republicans were the majority, that is not the case now. Many Republicans have moved to the majority party. The minority party has been mostly useless in Congress for the past 6 years.
Republicans also have been totally useless in Congress for the past 6 years.
2007-06-12 08:52:51 · answer #10 · answered by jl_jack09 6 · 2⤊ 6⤋