Owen -
While I'm on it: I feel disenfranchised this year because the Dems
don't have a primary too.
My parents used to (re)register every election for whatever party had
the most interesting primaries. Then one day they woke up
died-in-the-wool Republicans.
The old saying goes "if you are not liberal when you are young and
conservative when you are old, there is something wrong". My variation
is "if you are not idealistic when you are young and pragmatic when you
are old, there might be something a little awry". I was *much* more
enamored of the conservative ideals when I was young (because I was
growing up in a time when liberal ideals were in the water, as it were,
and conservatives were busy trying to regain that ground... perhaps as
they are again?).
Pragmatism and worldly experience lead me to embrace liberal idealogy,
or at least spirit much more as time went on. I want to live in a world
of happiness and abundance, not fear and scarcity. Some might argue
that I'm on the wrong side of the "ticket" for this, but the bottom line
for me is seeking to frame the very real problems of the world in a way
that allows them to be solved and not to require the domination of any
group over any other (including the tyrannical majority of democracy
over it's minorities).
- Steve
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