Changing ideologies and growing older...

[Richard]

Many people grow more and more conservative as they grow older.  It seems the mental disorder of liberalism wanes as you get life experience, knowledge, wisdom, and social skills.  Why is that?  Why is it that almost no one gets the disease at an older age, unless something very drastic happens in their life?

Do you think I will become a socialist in the future?

[Richard]

Winston Churchill said that.  It isn't a "common saying."

[Richard]

Also, paying your own way has a way of making you less liberal.

ha, compare me to the 15 year old me!

I seriously doubt you're really paying your own way.  And right now, you seem to have no aspirations for anything better than a bare subsistence way of life, with no future.  You're hardly the norm.

And people tell me liberalism isn't a mental disorder.  People tell me I'm condescending towards those people.  People complain I don't treat their kind well enough.  People tell me I'm rude towards them.

BAH.

[Richard]

Winston Churchill said that.  It isn't a "common saying."

It's a pretty common thought, one of the versions of which was enumerated by Churchill.

I was never a liberal, so I guess it means I had no heart when I was younger.  I prefer to think that I was able to perceive basic realities in a way that some other people were not, and I actually the results of liberal policies as being cruel, and that was the reason I never supported them.  So in that sense, it was my heart that led me to conservatism.

Yes, the key is to find balance.  Smart people are conservative, unless they are so smart and so totally disconnected from reality that the disease sets in.  Those people are usually designated PhD.  You want to balance your connection to reality to optimize both sides.

[Richard]

But I'm not going to go through all the trouble of working very hard and stressful jobs to make more money than I need. Now if I found an easy way to get tons of money, I would use that and use the money on more stereos, TVs, records, lapdances, etc.

You mean you wouldn't donate 80% of away to the government?  Hypocrite.

[Richard]

well, you can be a tad intimidating at times.  for example, in 18 months of posting here, the only time I was ever expressly invited to leave the thread or to change my post was by you.  but that's a bit beyond the scope of the current thread.  anyway, no, I don't think it's widely regarded as a disorder.  The comment to Born on the Floor was very specific in content and target.  Don't generalize beyond its intention, if I may be so bold as to interpret

Well yes.  In case someone didn't observe, I take being opinionated to a whole new level.  What is even cooler is that I am not your cookie cutter conservative (being African American and not straight with more libertarian beliefs socially) and I can really nail liberals to a tree in no time when they try their puny "arguments" (excuses really, for being lazy, on welfare, disadvantaged, stupid, or some other thing in life that isn't "fair.") on me in real life about how disadvantaged gays and African Americans and immigrants are.  And being the ideological lazy morons they are on campus (the neo commies), they get worked up a lot when I write about them as having a mental disorder or a virus or suffering from laziness & welfare syndrome. (I have a column in the school paper that is rather controversial.)

This may explain why I like that bitch Coulter.   Wonderful woman.

[Richard]

when you get that first 75 thousand dollar a year job

Only a very tiny minority of people ever have a job like that.

Not true.  Maybe only a tiny minority of people YOU hang out with, but in general, that isn't true.

Richious, you are neither 'cool' nor african-american.

Don't be absurd.  I was born in Africa and now I'm a citizen in the Americas.  If you refer to skin color, well, that is illegal in Canada and you need to get over your racist thoughts (or so Democrats like to tell me).

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Really, false on both accounts.  You really have a hard time comprehending anything with just one neuron working, eh?

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Really, don't be stupid.  Its either voting communists (Democrats) or voting for some moderates (Republicans), although some tend to be rather authoritarian.  However, Republicans are the ones that would leave me alone.

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You and BRTD are exemplary models of how laziness stems from liberalism.  No offense.  Life isn't some hedonistic cruise.  Life is about work and accomplishing something.

[Richard]

If BRTD and Opebo find their happiness without working, all the power to them. Why does it matter if they don't work?

Because in general, people that don't work, get tax dollars in form of welfare!!  Or they feed on charities like parasites!

[Richard]

No, the median income is about $35,000.  A $75,000 per year job is quite unusual.

Lovely.  That means half the population makes less, and half makes more.  Now account for all the high school kids and students, and you're a whole lot closer to $75,000.

Please don't argue statistics with me.

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Morons that advocate the New Deal are not Center-Rightists.  People that advocate stealing from people to give to the lazy and parasitic people are not Center-Rightists.  Those morons that yell and scream about what a bad thing it is that Saddam was captured isn't Center-Rightists.  Maybe Center-Right for YOU, but then, you have a mental issue.  I really don't know what it is, but I'm sure it will be incredibly hard to pronounce.

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Like you?  How about you help a working class person (like myself) by sending me lots of money as proof of you actually believing the dribble you spew about "the system" and "classes."

[Richard]

No it isn't.  You're odds would be 80% of being payed less that.  Hence $75,000 is an unlikely outcome.

Please dude, try, just try, to fire an additional neuron once in a while if you can spare it.  Think for a second here.  We have a normal distribution curve.  As people age, they earn more and more.  You're saying my odds would be 80% of being paid less than that.  Correct.  But, I'm 22.  As you age, the odds go up... sharply.  The fact that there is a 1 in 5 chance that covers the ENTIRE CURVE, from young uns to older people just shows you how amazing the United States is.  In Europe, your chances would be 1 in 50 instead.