Question for lifelong Conservatives/Liberals. Have you examined your political views since you came of age?

Question

Most people adopt the political views of their family when they are children and many never really question them. I changed mine as an adult but because of my background I can usually understand the arguments being made by the other side but from some of the comments made here I wonder if people have really thought about the issues.

Answer 1

Oh yeah. As a teen I was probably very liberal. That was in the 60's. As an adult I have started to realize that I agree with a lot of conservative point of views. Not enough to vote that way very often, but sometimes.

Answer 2

I examine them daily and wrestle with the short term and long term effects of political decisions. I am really a moderate but am considered by most to be very conservative. The cause of this is how far left the country has gone. To me we pass too many laws, I see no reason for congress to be in session any longer than two months out of the year.

Answer 3

I am a reformed Hard-core Conservative. I adopted the ideas of my parents until I got out into the world and began to see things were not exactly as I was told.
Since then, I have been able to see the pluses and minuses of both the conservative viewpoint and the liberal viewpoint. They both have merit, and I find myself more of a moderate than anything else.

Answer 4

My husband belongs to one party and I belong to another. We have raised 3 daughters and we taught them to make the decision for themselves. politics is seldom discussed in our home because some of our girls and their families feel very strongly about things in different directions.

I am proud that each of my children made the decision for themselves and that they did not follow in either my or my husbands footsteps blindly. They did research and made an informed decision on their own and they do not think alike.

I always think about the issues and don't always vote for someone in my party. I vote for the person that I think would best fills the office that they are running for.

Answer 5

Of course I have reevaluated my political beliefs since I was a kid. And I'm still a little further to the right than center, just like I was when I was a kid. I like practicality and I like logic that makes sense rather than "logic" borne of emotion that I have to either sell out my values on or make a leap of faith in order to believe. (I don't mean that in a religious tone, but more of a sense-making tone.)

I part with the Republicans on a few permanent things like abortion, and a few temporary things like this war with Iraq, but fiscally, and for the most part, socially, I will ALWAYS be a Republican.

Answer 6

Yes. When I first voted, I voted Republican (like my mother). Then after living under the tyranny of Ronald ReaGUN as governor of California, (or I guess we pronounce that Caliphoneya now), and he was elected president, I went down the very next day and changed my party affiliation to Democrat as I didn't want to be put in the ovens like what happened to homosexuals in Nazi Germany. Never regretted it.

It was just a matter of self preservation. I have and always will vote Democrat since. And wow, and I glad I did/do.

The Republicans have never done a thing for me or my family, Democrats always do............you see I have to work for a living.

Answer 7

NO, through fact i can and continuously have formed my very own critiques... i don't could study those products or watch the biased media stations to alter my recommendations on something... My political critiques have and could proceed to proceed to be an identical.... OBAMA SUCKS ... basic and straightforward...

Answer 8

I re-examine them every single day.

If you don't question your own beliefs, then you can never grow.

I doubt if any of the demagogues on here ever gave their viewpoints a critical thought.