I've concluded after reading through this thread that you may be (and there are plenty of contenders) the winner of the "Legend in His Own Mind" award. I congratulate you. -------------- Original message from Jeff Wright <jswri...@gmail.com>: --------------
> > One of the consistent trends of our recent political history is that > > the broadly conservative and libertarian thinks the left is badly > > misguided but educable, while the left thinks conservatives and > > libertarians are evil and selfish. > > IME, what most non-libertarians seem to think is that libertarians are born > as libertarians. From my own observations, most people start out as > liberals and a good many stay that way for the rest of their life, never > re-evaluating their beliefs. Some do, and turn into conservatives and the > truly reformed turn into libertarians. I think that this is where the above > dynamic comes from. > > Throughout my youth and well into college, I was a solid Kennedy Democrat. > I barely missed voting in 1980 and would have voted for Anderson; I never > even heard of Ed Clark. Later on, I worked with hard-line conservatives for > years (doing their IT). So, I'm very familiar with the arguments from both > the left and right. A former list member (old listers may remember JB) is > the one who turned me onto libertarianism many years ago (and after years of > arguments) when we worked together. > > This is to say that I've re-evaluated my beliefs many times over the years. > When I started having doubts about the correctness of libertarianism, I > would look at what the 2 dominant political powers were doing and my > admittedly non-conformist beliefs were quickly reaffirmed. > > That someone would start as a libertarian first and then morph into either a > liberal or conservative, well, that person is the proverbial unicorn. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
