How to Become a Conservative in Four Embarrassing Steps

[Ricter]

Well if everyone else is taking free stuff from the government then why shouldn't I do so also?

Well, they're not "free", you and I are paying for them.

 

[gwb-trading]

Well, they're not "free", you and I are paying for them.

That's the point that "righties" have been trying to make all along.

 

[Ricter]

That's the point that "righties" have been trying to make all along.

So is the biggest part of the problem a social safety net, or is the problem more about the number of people contributing?

 

[wjk]

Liberal: a Conservative who's gotten an education.

Conservative: A person who's received a higher education while at the same time not succumbing to left wing indoctrination. I have several in my immediate family. One who has an advanced engineering master's degree found it quite entertaining watching some students lap up the progressive bullshit, though he did indicated that the majority of students in his classes tended to be conservative.

 

[Ricter]

Conservative: A person who's received a higher education while at the same time not succumbing to left wing indoctrination.

They only appear indoctrinated to you. Had you received an education, including some psychology or philosophy, you'd know that already.

 

[wjk]

They only appear indoctrinated to you. Had you received an education, including some psychology or philosophy, you'd know that already.

The reverse could be said. Unfortunately, too many liberals think there are no educated conservatives. They couldn't be further from the truth. Why don't you address my comment regarding great thinkers and educators like Thomas Sowell abandoning left wing philosophies after being immersed in them? He has plenty of education in philosophy.

 

[wjk]

About one type of indoctrination:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/390297/indoctrination-grievance-mongers-thomas-sowell

From the article by Sowell:

"There is so much knowledge and skills that need to be transmitted to the young that turning schools and colleges into indoctrination centers is a major and reckless disservice to them and to American society, which is vulnerable as all human societies have always been, especially those that are decent."

Remember, he was a committed Marxist for a time.

 

[Ricter]

The reverse could be said. Unfortunately, too many liberals think there are no educated conservatives. They couldn't be further from the truth. Why don't you address my comment regarding great thinkers and educators like Thomas Sowell abandoning left wing philosophies after being immersed in them? He has plenty of education in philosophy.

Well, perhaps I was too harsh. At any rate, as we both apparently understand, the reverse can indeed be said. That is the chink in one's self-assurance armor. It's a big reason why liberals can seem so "wishy washy".

 

[Ricter]

Well if everyone else is taking free stuff from the government then why shouldn't I do so also?

Source: Congressional Budget Office

 

[gwb-trading]

Source: Congressional Budget Office

I also want my Obamaphone!