Originally posted by PlatoSVT:

Or maybe I'm just slowly becoming conservative, but I do like to think that I am slightly, if at all, "liberal" I'd call it more open minded than anything else.




Your getting older...I have slowly (more these last few years) gone from slight left leanings to slight right leanings (you might say I'm farther right but it really depends on issues - some of which I still lean left on). But the trend toward increasing conservativism with age is common and I would argue based on an increased understanding of human nature (many are out to get whatever they can without working for it), an increased understanding that people spend money MUCH, MUCH more freely when they did not earn it, and the perspective that certain social issues have historically never been solveable with money (from the early Greeks to the failed socialist states), and perhaps, the realization that certain core beliefs, such as family, religion, are more important than you thought (though maybe for very different reasons than you thought). But whatever your leanings..open minded is a superior trait not limited to any one group.

BTW, as you consider many prominant older liberals, concider that they often share certain features: they were 1) sheltered from "reality" (see above) by virtue of wealth or fame or environment (surrounded only by liberals...i.e. universities) or 2) they are benifactors of the government social program "bait" or 3) they make a career out of convincing people they need the goverment to make life better, more fair, etc (ie. career politicians).

Just a perspective...think about it.

1999 Amazon Green SVT Contour (#554/2760) "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." -Soren Kierkegaard (as posted by Jato)