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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (52805)10/18/2002 11:55:07 AM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
I think it's very common to be liberal in youth but become more conservative as you experience life. School teachers and college professors are idealistic, but real life isn't anything like the ideal world.

I did have a very good high school teacher, in a civics class entitled Problems of Democracy, who told us, every time I read an opinion expressed in the newspaper, to look out my window and see if they were right.

I was very liberal when I was young, and my journey right was very much like yours. I heard a speech by William F. Buckley, and heard the ring of truth in his voice.

I asked myself, "what if he's right?"

I decided to take what he said and see if his point of view fit the world better than the point of view I already had, and it did.
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