There's a quote attributed to Churchill that boils down to 'as you get older you get more conservative'. People also say you get more intolerant as you get older
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Well, posting this kind of a goal in and of itself. I've also been doing what I can for a long time, speaking out, donating, buying food for homeless people, whatever. But I also intent to speak out more, since speech is free. Looking for injustice (for lack of a better word) around me is free. So I'm also going to do more of that. But I also want to show people that I'm trying to be on their side, that not only am I walking the walk I'm talking the talk. In the Facebook version of this post, I reeled in one of my crazy libertarian nutbag friends, and so I'm trying to talk some sense to him. And not everybody who's marginalized who sees me speaking up for them, not everybody who's a crazy libertarian nutbag, not everybody who's on the fence or in a good position to act like me, they all see me doing it. Even if they don't comment, or press the like button, they see it, and they'll hopefully think about it, and either feel heartened, or contemplative, or choose to act themselves
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I think the definitions of conservative are very skewed now, and that more and more conservatives are being labeled as liberal due to the super ultra religious nutters and tea party nutters who eat their own. Hell I've seen it happen on my local Utah LDS news site where if some one doesn't agree with the extreme, and takes a more moderate approach, they get called libtard, and other scathing anti-liberal things. It's actually interesting, that maybe conservatives as a whole are dying out due to the teaparty movement creating a louder extreme.
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That's the plan. :)
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