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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: one_less who wrote (786005)5/22/2014 7:36:49 PM
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Forty some years ago you could have found me living on a hippie commune in the Pacific Northwest. That was after years of getting stoned as I protested everything going on in a corrupt establishment and living out of a backpack. I lived in a teepee for a while after that taking on reforestation work from time to time. My attitudes and conduct of that era was clearly in the range of radical left wing. Over time and with experience I have become much more conservative in life style but have remained open minded (a liberal characteristic) with regards to the mainstream status quo and issues as they arise. The mainstream establishment is no less corrupt but I manage to stay out of the street these days. Most of my complaints about an unjust world and corrupt establishment are penned rather than shouted. The pendulum has swung and the powers that be are more leftwing but no less corrupt than in the past. I have posted this previously so it shouldn’t be any surprise to those who have been posting here over the past decade or so.


Many of us who were liberal in our youth have evolved to understand that liberal extremism really doesn't function (I never lived in a teepee, though lol).

But what I see today is that a lot of liberals really don't comprehend what liberalism of that era was. Liberal extremists today are far less informed and more committed to the ideology than they are the outcomes. Unfortunately, I include in that group many who were liberals from that bygone era, who have evolved over time to support liberal causes of today without really comprehending what they mean. A lot of my extreme liberal friends come from families who were union employees and have just adopted the liberal dogma, IMO, without a lot of thought about it.
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