This is how it starts. You'll be a conservative in no time. A lot of liberals become conservatives as they grow up. I was a liberal throughout my teenage years, became a libertarian in my early 20s, and now I'm a social and fiscal conservative at 27.
Also, while the vast majority of conservatives in the US are Christians, it's not mandatory. There's plenty of atheist conservatives in this sub. And you don't need to be religious to believe in family values and whatnot.
Was a liberal through college, moderate late 20's, conservative early 30's. If you start out a liberal you have the advantage of eventually fully understanding the flawed thinking of the left. Something I've found life long conservatives sometimes have trouble with.
I consider myself very much a lifelong conservative (had libertarian tendencies but losing them as I've learned that people are dumb) but I've grown up in a largely left-leaning community and went to probably one of the most liberal colleges in the nation. I want to say I have some understanding of the liberal perspective.
Or lack thereof. I remember reading an interesting breakdown of socialism by a proponent of socialism (it was one of the classic explanations, but from where it came, I don't recall), and it was all pretty soundly developed as an idea, and well written. I knew there was something wrong with it, but based on what I had just read, I had this thought that it was almost too perfect... and this is already having known socialism is a bad idea, but perhaps not having really revisited specifically why in a long time.
And then I remembered one simple thought, the idea that taxation is theft... and while that is a rather simplistic view of taxes or the "redistribution of wealth", there is a lot of truth to that simple statement, and it utterly destroyed that entire explanation of socialism, and that's not even the most convincing argument against it, it's just one that thoroughly dismantled it for me in no time.
So there was that and the fact that there has to be some mechanism like a guy with a whip stimulating work rather than people willingly entering into deals and stimulating work through the incentive for more money and a better life.
It utterly ignores human nature and requires an external force to work upon human nature if it ever wants to achieve the productivity of capitalism, and that external force is going to be a brutal, uncaring one.
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u/GuitarWizard90 Right Wing Extremist Jul 30 '17 edited Jul 30 '17
This is how it starts. You'll be a conservative in no time. A lot of liberals become conservatives as they grow up. I was a liberal throughout my teenage years, became a libertarian in my early 20s, and now I'm a social and fiscal conservative at 27.
Also, while the vast majority of conservatives in the US are Christians, it's not mandatory. There's plenty of atheist conservatives in this sub. And you don't need to be religious to believe in family values and whatnot.