When did you become conservative?

Question

I was a registered democrat and pretty liberal until I was 19. At this point, from out of the blue it hit me. I simply was more practical than liberals were. They were idealists and I didn't agree really with anything they stood for (if we know what they stand for.) I changed my party to republican and never turned back. I'm happy as a realist. Liberals don't know what that means.

When did you become conservative?

Answer 1

When crazy liberals started spreading conspiracy rumors about 9/11/01.

Answer 2

My parents have been conservative ever since I could remember, so I was lucky to have common sense and logic be the basis of my upbringing

After I got old enough to challenge what I believed, I realized the exact same thing: Liberalism is idealism. It's based upon utopian scenarios that have no firm ground on realism.

Sure, socialized medicine and welfare sound like great ideas, but then you realize people aren't perfect and the mind is a powerful thing. There are a lot of socialist themes in the Bible, but you have to realize it's really the overarching theme of love that is driving the word of the Bible. You should love your neighbor as yourself, you should give to the poor, etc. etc. However the Bible also says to be as gentle as doves and as smart as serpants because people will try to take advantage of you.

That's why communism never worked, and that's why socialized medicine won't work. People are lazy by nature, and you have to have some sort of motivation to do anything. That's why capitalism is so wonderful because you can work hard and EARN your success so that you're fiscally able to give to the poor. Liberalism teaches what psychologists call "learned helplessness". If you're given something with little or no effort, you're going to be a burden on the rest of society.

I would love to be a liberal. Not have to worry about standing up for anything, going with the flow. Be anti-everything. It's too easy. However when you realize that the world isn't perfect (and it never will be), then you realize you have to stand-up for your rights, for your country, for your God, for your free market, and for your fellow man. Conservatives love people as much if not more than liberals because we're willing to respect what they believe (that is, if they actually believe in something rather than believing in nothing).

That is why I am conservative.

Answer 3

There were two watershed events in my youth. On my first job as a 15 year old summer employee, I was earning 75 cents an hour. I knew exactly how many hours I had worked and being fairly reasonable at arithmetic, I knew exactly how much I had earned. When I got the first check, the amount was wrong. I pointed out the error, only to meet guffaws from adult employees telling me about TAXES. I didn't like it.
A few years later, I was in military service and listened carefully to the campaigns of both Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater. I did NOT want nuclear war, so I voted or tried to vote for Johnson. A couple years later, I learned that Johnson's campaign had actually lied about and maligned unfairly Senator Goldwater. I have never voted for another Democrat since.

Answer 4

I went straight from high school to college, where I was as liberal as I could be. After 2+ years of college, I was drafted. Once I got into the military way of thinking, I realized how idiotic and impractical liberal thinking was. They are in their own little world, and care much more for so called idealism than for the way things really are. Just look at Pelosi and Reid. Completely out of touch with the real world

Answer 5

That's a really good question and details! I think I always have been a conservative but it wasn't until a little after President Bush was elected that I really knew I was, which was also when I developed an interest in politics. At that time, conservative, Republican, Democrat, and liberal weren't even in my vocabulary because everything was an issue of logic and morality. I knew, undoubtedly, on September 11.

Answer 6

After taking economics and serving as a high-ranking officer in an elected government body. I realized the vast majority of politicians are only out for themselves, and when I realized what liberal economic policies do to the wealth and standard of living of nations, it all became clear.

Also, while studying how federal money is spent, the history of government in America, and watching how people in other countries have followed good intentions and feel-good slogans right off a cliff. For every federal tax dollar that goes to education, 10 go to the military. For every dollar that goes to an individual in need, 10 go to some politically connected company.

When everyone is poor, the party that has the loyalty of the poor will never lose.

Answer 7

I was a fence rider for about 5 years and a liberal all before then. Then I became a conservative on the eleventh day of September, 2001. I think you know why.

Answer 8

I was never a liberal. I was (on average) a moderate on political issues until I started reading strong conservatives like Hayek and von Mises in the Eighties.

I always held conservative views on the high value I placed on American civilization and on foreign policy and the military. Now, I'm a strong conservative on economic issues and federalism--allow individuals to make most of the decisions, then when necessary, the government closest to the local community, and then the state, and then the federal government. Federalism is often overlooked as a strong conservative issue.

Answer 9

When i was 16..
and my peers started heading in a direction that made no sense to me..
they started using drugs and listening to the grateful dead...
they started having sex with who ever, and abortions were on the rise...
SEX drugs and Hollywood was becoming the in thing..

then when we were in Political science and Current events in school
those around me were Liberal Poster children!!

Clinton was president then and alot of my peers though what he did was sooo awesome!
I was disgusted and still am
I am aware that people do cheat on their spouses ..
BUT to do it... and LIE UNDER OATH..
he was our president
he wasn't above the law.. he is supposed to be a role model for the law!

then Hilary and her scandal..
then they robbed the white house when they left

I am so glad my parents raised me right.. and i mean LITERALLY RIGHT!

-Child of a Democrat Father and a Republican Mother

Answer 10

Conservatives do no longer develop into Liberals specifically as a results of fact as quickly as you get the frontal lobotomy performed...you won't be in a position to undo it! besides...I honestly have discharged fecal understand that had extra type and character than maximum Liberals I honestly have ever met!

Answer 11

My family is Conservative, for several generations. I had a brief flirtation with liberalism in college, while pursuing a minor in Social Work.

When I got into the real world, and saw that the "myths" the SW education had tried to debunk were all TRUE, I never looked back.