How old were you when you quit being a liberal?
599917
While you were busy protesting ,my husband was probably in Vietnam, we had just had a baby girl two months before he left, he didn't see her again until she was over a year old.  I didn't like Nixon, didn't like the war, though supported it because my husband and many of our friends were in the middle of it.  I think most young people do start out more on the liberal side of things, and then LIFE HAPPENS TO YOU!   What bothers me with allot of the postings on Yahoo is that many of them don't seem to be thinking for themselves, and they sound so bitter and hate filled.  Maybe that's just part of the process, but I think it's rather sad.
1055381
45, retired on 8/17/86
1184052
You are a true liberal. And an even bigger idiot!
964353
used to be proud to call myself conservative... not anymore and maybe never again.
1072883
Ya, I used to be a democrat now I'm a registered republican.  I smell less and feel better everyday.  =0)~
523241
I wouldn't call myself a "conservative" but I am a moderate Republican.  I think I changed my ways around the age of 22 or so.  I would run around talking about how cool Clinton was and how great it was that he could really "relate" to young people, and that he played the sax, etc.  Remember how well he did with the 18-24 group??  Well now I know exactly how he "related" to people my age!  hee.  After college, I realized there was more to life than what I was hearing.  I realized that I needed to work hard for a paycheck and that it was driving me crazy to think of people my age, not working as hard as me, taking MY tax money!  It infuriated me.  And what was worse was that the Gov. of my state and the Pres. were both Dems. and I kept hearing about RAISING taxes to help the needy and the poor, and I couldn't stop thinking about how much that sucked.  \n(And before any holier than though liberals tell me I must have been lucky and had a good job - I had to put off graduating to take care of my sick mother, and worked retail for 60-70 hours a week just to pay my rent and car payment.) and they wanted to raise MY taxes.  So that was the beginning of my transformation!  It's spiraled since then and now it's full blown!  :)
1143645
Republican.  On a Scale of 1 to 50 with 50 being the most liberal and 1 being the most conservative,  I'm a 3.  I took a test in my American Government class in College.  I knew I was a Republican to begin with but I didn't know I was that conservative!   :)
1034902
Excellent question! \n\nI remember when the word 'conservative' referred to the far right of the Republican party. And there were liberals in both parties. Then in the 90s this begin to change with the entire Republican party moving to the right.\n\nIf you didn't move to the right then you were pushed out basically. I'd say this transformation occurred during the Newt Gingrich era. I actually used to be a Republican but I am very liberal when it comes to the rights of others. IE, gay marriage, discrimination, etc... I first moved independent then finally ended up completely democrat. There just isn't any place for me in the Republican party any longer. They carry too many biased prejudices; but even more than that, my liberal way of thinking can't accept their somehow literally believing they have the RIGHT to dictate to others how to live.\n\nAnyways, good question and hope that helps. Basically there are no liberal republicans any longer. There are the conservatives who are to the right then there are the neocons which are far right extremist.
1158945
I grew up in a conservative home, although I didn't know it at the time. Politics were not the dinner table topic. In may teens, I started to become more liberal in my view of the world. By my twenties,I was wild, and free, and I was all but full blow liberal by this time.With the birth of my first daughter, that all started to change.I guess I started to become my parents. Now I'm back to being a conservative. Some of my liberal views remain, some what. Like, while I don't think Global warming is caused by human consumption, I also don't think we should go knocking down every tree because we can.I live in Florida, Trust Me I know what progress can do to a pristine environment.\n\nIn short. You are product of your environment.If it changes your out look will too.\n\nHappy birthday to me I'll be 40 in 3 days.
899140
Yes, our society has degraded tremendously since 1970! I was twelve years old back then, and I have been watching. I wish we could get our old values back before it is too late.
1081156
What constitutes a "conservative" changes with time just as what defines a liberal, Republican, or Democrat.\n\nI think I have rather good credentials as a conservative. I list them so you can understand my current position.\n\nI was a founding member of the Conservative Party of New York State before I was old enough to vote. Even though I was only 15 years old  I was elected the Vice chairman of the Queens County Conservative Party Club (the largest in the state). I was a vice chairman of Youth for Goldwater and a chairman of Young Americans for Freedom. \n\nAfter college when I moved to Missouri I was elected a Republican committeeman, a member of the Republican State Committee, and chairman of the Republican City Central Committee.\n\nI ran (unsuccessfully) for congress at the personal request of President Ronald Reagan who campaigned for me and helped me raise campaign funding. \n\nI have managed campaigns, been a fund raiser for and a political consultant to a large number of  Republican candidates and elected officials including half a dozen United States Senators and two dozen congressman.  \n\nYet despite this history I did not vote for George Bush in either presidential election and have left the Republican Party to become a Libertarian.\n\nGeorge Bush and the current Republican leadership know as much about traditional Conservative principles as Jennifer Lopez knows about the Talmud.\n\nTraditional conservatives believe in fiscal responsibility. \n\nGeorge W. has given us a huge budget deficit. He has signed pork laden spending bills authorizing billions for absurdities like a bridge to nowhere in Alaska and a Museum to the Packard Automobile in Ohio.\n\nTraditional conservatives believe, like George Washington, in "avoiding foreign entanglements." \n\nGeorge W. has sent American troops to the other side of the globe to "nation build."\n\nTraditional conservatives believe in state's rights. \n\nGeorge W. has sought to oust the jurisdiction of Florida State courts when he didn't like the outcome of the Schivo case. He seeks a constitutional amendment concerning marriage, a traditional state prerogative. He uses Federal authority to deal with K-12 education, another local prerogative (and responsibility). \n\nTraditional conservatives believe in individual rights. \n\nGeorge W. has used the so called Patriot Act to violate those rights. He has directed the NSA to conduct covert surveillance of American citizens. He attacks the rights of homosexuals. [NB:Barry Goldwater, iconic conservative leader, once said, "You don't have to BE straight to be in the army, you have to SHOOT straight"]\n\nIt is clear that what passes for "conservatism" today is far removed from the traditional conservatism of men like Senator Barry Goldwater. It won't pass muster with me or anyone else who believes that what a real conservative seeks to conserve is, first and foremost, the Constitution.
720810
I chose the party I currently vote in when I was about 22. It was a long debate, measuring pros and cons of both major parties and a few smaller ones. It was a painstaking journey. My mother and her side of the family wanted a Democrat, and my father wanted a Republican. I chose the party that best fit with my political beliefs. Needless to say, My grandmother has taken me out of her will, and my mother wants to constantly argue politics and religion with me.
696610
Ask the liberals. They change from day to day!
825830
This liberal agrees with you.
307043
nope. we are liberals and since everything has been changed for the better in your story there would be nothing left to  change would there?
668570
Most people start out as liberal when they're young. When they begin to amass things in their life - family, house, savings - most then gradually become conservative as they recognize that they had to work hard for what they have and they don't think it fair that other people should share when they didn't work for it (the ant and the grasshopper story is a good example).\n\nThe Democrats used to be the conservative party. During the late 60s and 70s, the parties gradually switched orientation so that now the Republicans are conservative. It has been an interesting time watching this happen over my lifetime.
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I did back in the 80s..lol..how old are you?