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College Doesn't Make You Liberal
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Ptilk
Title: Creepy old pirate
Posts: 2,359
Registered: 2002-2-13 14:52:58
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1/1/00 12:00am
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College Doesn't Make You Liberal
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My hippy generation and it's views are pretty much the national zeitgeist on most issues today, and the majority of 20 and 30 somethings are even more liberal than most of my generation. They think discriminating against gays and staging a war on women is insane, they are for universal health care, they don't care what color you are, think that restricting and limiting the actions of corporations is a rightful responsibility and duty of the government, smoke weed, have premarital sex and see nothing wrong with it, don't really get into church but are 'spiritual', want to end the damn war machine the US has always been, want religious hypocrisy out of the law making process.....
The little burp where a minority of people ("conservatives"  , with the aid of billions of dollars spent by the ultra-rich and the lazy negligence (and at times, outright compliance) of the "news" media convinced people that "conservatives" were winning.....is over. They had a 30 year run of being looked upon as legitimate option along with liberalism....but it got pushed too far, too many nut bags started believing their own crap, over reach, implosion.....done.
Liberalism and it's ideals won over the petty, small minded bigotry that US "conservatism" became.
Deal with it.
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AzureTyger
Title: Awesome
Posts: 462
Registered: 2002-4-1 15:49:04
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1/1/00 12:00am
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College Doesn't Make You Liberal
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College made me very conservative. I got more liberal as I got older.
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Yukishiro1
Posts: 3,243
Registered: 2002-9-20 23:52:57
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1/1/00 12:00am
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College Doesn't Make You Liberal
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Different people react differently. I became more conservative in higher education, probably in reaction to the stupid liberals I saw there.
I'm sure if I lived in bumfuckville, ohio I would become more liberal because of all the stupid conservative people there.
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cabbyman
Posts: 441
Registered: 2003-1-6 07:48:53
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1/1/00 12:00am
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College Doesn't Make You Liberal
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Ptilk posted:
My hippy generation and it's views are pretty much the national zeitgeist on most issues today, and the majority of 20 and 30 somethings are even more liberal than most of my generation. They think discriminating against gays and staging a war on women is insane, they are for universal health care, they don't care what color you are, think that restricting and limiting the actions of corporations is a rightful responsibility and duty of the government, smoke weed, have premarital sex and see nothing wrong with it, don't really get into church but are 'spiritual', want to end the damn war machine the US has always been, want religious hypocrisy out of the law making process.....
The little burp where a minority of people ("conservatives" , with the aid of billions of dollars spent by the ultra-rich and the lazy negligence (and at times, outright compliance) of the "news" media convinced people that "conservatives" were winning.....is over. They had a 30 year run of being looked upon as legitimate option along with liberalism....but it got pushed too far, too many nut bags started believing their own crap, over reach, implosion.....done.
Liberalism and it's ideals won over the petty, small minded bigotry that US "conservatism" became.
Deal with it.
We only need to look at the last election to show how wrong you are.
People answer poll questions as liberals but they vote conservative. Enjoy the end of your ride.
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eodoll
Posts: 1,028
Registered: 2002-2-14 12:35:42
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1/1/00 12:00am
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College Doesn't Make You Liberal
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I agree with conservatives on some issues and with lberals on others. My core beliefs have changed very little.
I was a bit more fervent into christianity when i was younger(brain washed) and i never even bothered to question various thinfs until i was in high school.. So my mind opened but being open minded has little to do with liberals or conservatives.
My stance is mostly libertarian with a bit of regulation(liberal) thrown in.
Edit: ptilk is right, liberals won on all the major issues.. And they are continuing to win. Conservative radio and tv is succesful because they can complain about stuff.
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theredkay1
Posts: 611
Registered: 2008-5-16 10:37:09
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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College Doesn't Make You Liberal
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College definately pushed me towards the conservative mindset regarding economics/fiscal policy /monetary policy issues. Although I did work for financial institutions for 2 summers and that experience probably played a large role. It took a little while to figure out that most of those teachings did not do a very good job of explaining how the economy or the budget actually worked.
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Date Posted:
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College Doesn't Make You Liberal
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posted: It’s certainly true that professors are a liberal lot and that religious skepticism is common in the academy. In a survey of more than 1,400 professors that the sociologist Solon Simmons and I conducted in 2006, covering academics in nearly all fields and in institutions ranging from community colleges to elite universities, we found that about half of the professors identified as liberal, as compared to just one in five Americans over all. In the social sciences, humanities and natural sciences, Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents outnumbered Republicans by a wide margin; among social scientists, for example, there were 10 Democrats for every Republican. Though a majority of professors said that they believed in God, 20 percent were atheists or agnostics — compared with just 4 percent in the general population.
I attended a small, religiously affiliated university and found there were a fair number of liberals and conservatives in the institution. I always appreciated the math, science and engineering folks because they didn't get into political or religious crap, they just taught the material and left the pontificating stuff to the sociology and poly sci folks.
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