Changing ideologies and growing older...

[dazzleman]

It depends on the person.

Youth and inexperience breed more extreme opinions, generally.  This occurs on both ends of the political spectrum.

As people gain maturity and experience, they see that things are not always as black and white as they originally thought, in many cases.  But in other cases, they may feel more strongly about something being right or wrong than they did in their youth.

Idealistic liberalism is usually associated with youth.  Conservatism has found it harder to market itself as an idealistic philosophy.  Most people lose some of their idealism as it runs up against the reality of the world, and become less liberal than they were in their youth.

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

[dazzleman]

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.

[dazzleman]

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.

[dazzleman]

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. See my post about the Minneapolis guy who's a high school dropout and made over 100 grand last year with no job, by simply suing telemarketers. Now THAT'S my type of model. As it is I would simply rather work an easy job that gives me enough money to buy what I want, rather than work a hard job just so I can be rich just for the hell of it.

Nothing wrong with your priorities, as long as you don't expect others to pay your way.  Somehow, I think you will.