can't wait to see him at starbucks

Fun Fact: As you grow older the trend is usually to grow more liberal. However while you yourself are more liberal, your children will most likely be even more liberal than you and thus you will move to the right by comparison.

hooray myth of mature conservatives

I've always heard that the older people become, the more they tend towards conservatism.

Like the old Churchill quote goes: "“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”

Yep, the myth of mature conservatives. Rubber ruler and all that

This post was edited by Thor123422 on Jul 2 2012 02:26pm

Well it's the fact that he wrote a book about it when he was 13 years old, spoke at CPAC, and has 2 conservative parents.

Then after 4 years of high school, he goes left. I think that's very interesting. Obviously, this article means absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things, but I thought it was very intriguing how he turned despite having such strong views at such a young age.

Oh my bad, let me make a 20 minute RP video thread with no commentary.

That's also about the same age where the teenager does the exact opposite of what his parents say or do...might have something to do with it.

Looks like a typical 17 year old; he was't mature at 13, and he isn't mature now, his answers read like a freshman college student who wants to be cool.

If this was true then I should've been a gay-hating, racist conservative in my teens. Oops, I guess I forgot.



I think he makes a very strong point on the bolded. Much of what I hear (and obviously I'm biased) from the average conservative is about things like preserving freedom and getting rid of socialism. Well, what exactly do those mean? Is allowing gays to marry more freedom or less freedom? And why is the word socialism bad? We have things like Medicare and Social Security but those aren't bad things according to conservatives. Our roads are socialist, but I don't see conservatives complain about that.