>>>>In that case perhaps you can explain why so many liberals "come around" to conservative thinking as they get older.
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>>>Complete bunk.
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>>perhaps because they get senile ?
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>Well that - and how about that we seem to get more liberal as time goes by anyway. For example - what was liberal in 1957 could be considered conservative today. So its not the people changing so much, its the guidelines between what is considered liberal and consevative that changes.

You're absolutely right in that. The irony is that the more the conservatives shift to the right, the more liberal the country gets. This is something I read somewhere, with a fairly good argumentation.