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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (184026)2/29/2012 6:51:14 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (1) of 541187
 
John I am a little surprised by your response. I want to leave religion out of this discussion as it is just too emotional for people and stick to liberal versus conservative.

Let me also rephrase my point that people who enter college as conservatives often graduate more liberal, but people who enter college as liberal usually leave as liberals.

Of all the liberals I know, I do not know a single person who has become a conservative. Liberals usually stay liberals.

But look at the PEW poll that says 51% of scientists are liberal, 80% lean Democratic and only 6% are Republican. What conclusions would you draw from those statistics. They are pretty startling and definitive.

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<<It would be good to see some more data on this question. The general common sense view is the opposite--as people grow older, they grow more conservative: liberal to left of liberal in their youth, conservative as they grow older. The general notion behind that is that the sense of possibility constricts as we grow older and that we get attached to property more.

I haven't seen any data on this point in years. If you can find some, it would help this discussion.

Santorum said kids who go to college with faith often leave it without faith. That was one of his primary reasons for dising college.

People who go to college without faith leave college without faith.

I've definitely seen this go both ways among college students but, again, it's fairly easily dealt with via data. It's the sort of thing that's fairly easily polled.
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