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To: koan who wrote (184017)	2/29/2012 2:19:10 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541182

LindyBill is a authoritarian /right guy. He was a big supporter of Bush, invading Iraq, a massive military, and supporting Israel in anything they want to do. He's never struck me as especially religious or interested in social issues except as their voters support HIS issues. Message 27979651

To: koan who wrote (184017)	2/29/2012 3:47:15 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541182

My mistake regarding Lindy Bill. As I remembered he is a devout Catholic. I guess my memory failed me. Definitely not since I've known him, sometime in the early life of the FADG thread. Just not religious, in the classical sense of that word, at all. Right/left: As posted to epicure, my response to the left right debate would be to point out that people generally move right to left, but not left to right. We can see this clearly among people who get educted, throughout history, the world, and especially in college. Kids who enter college usually leave much more liberal than when they enter and few leave more conservative. 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.