“Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.”
― Winston Churchill
I heard this quote from Winston Churchill a few years ago and at time I thought nothing of it.
Recently I have thought back to it and realized that this articulates my evolution of fundamental viewpoints quite well.
Although I am still very much a young man (I'm in my early 20's) I have found that in the last few years my traditionally liberal leaning opinions have moved further to the right.
Although I don't truly identify with any political group, I think it's interesting that as I get older I see more and more aspects of liberal viewpoints as being ridiculous, vegetarianism, white guilt and feminism to name but a few.
My question is this has anyone else had this experience and what do you think is the root cause of evolving from a liberal standpoint to a more conservative one as you get older?
― Winston Churchill
I heard this quote from Winston Churchill a few years ago and at time I thought nothing of it.
Recently I have thought back to it and realized that this articulates my evolution of fundamental viewpoints quite well.
Although I am still very much a young man (I'm in my early 20's) I have found that in the last few years my traditionally liberal leaning opinions have moved further to the right.
Although I don't truly identify with any political group, I think it's interesting that as I get older I see more and more aspects of liberal viewpoints as being ridiculous, vegetarianism, white guilt and feminism to name but a few.
My question is this has anyone else had this experience and what do you think is the root cause of evolving from a liberal standpoint to a more conservative one as you get older?
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