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Ken MacDonald

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Liberal to Conservative or Vice-Versa as Aging Takes Place?

Wednesday, 29th June, 2011, 12:31 PM

Paul Bonham's comment elsewhere on CT made me wonder about what happens to our politics as we age. Do most people move to the left or to the right as we age? No question I have moved right, but, maybe I am not "normal" in that. (Yes! To head off the comments, many would tell me I am not normal in other respects!)
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Wednesday, 29th June, 2011, 12:52 PM

Re: Liberal to Conservative or Vice-Versa as Aging Takes Place?

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=374518

Not that I believe it.
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Wednesday, 29th June, 2011, 01:22 PM

Re: Liberal to Conservative or Vice-Versa as Aging Takes Place?

I have moved further to the Left with age.
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Wednesday, 29th June, 2011, 01:53 PM

Re: Liberal to Conservative or Vice-Versa as Aging Takes Place?

Originally posted by Ken Craft View Post

I have moved further to the Left with age.

Me too, I think, though I think also the signposts are moving. The Right seems very Right these days, to the point of being more wrong than right.

Also, being Left behind seems more attractive, now that I am no longer reaching for the top.
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Wednesday, 29th June, 2011, 02:02 PM

Liberal to Conservative or Vice-Versa as Aging Takes Place?

Originally posted by John Coleman View Post

Me too, I think, though I think also the signposts are moving. The Right seems very Right these days, to the point of being more wrong than right.

Also, being Left behind seems more attractive, now that I am no longer reaching for the top.

One's viewpoint is everything!

If I had considered a thought like that, I would have thought that the left was very left. So, those who move right think the left is extreme and those who move left think the right is extreme. It's all in one's position on the scale, I guess! (I use the word extreme only to make a point.)
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Wednesday, 29th June, 2011, 02:58 PM

Re: Liberal to Conservative or Vice-Versa as Aging Takes Place?

It's more complicated than it used to be, when voting patterns were inherited from generation to generation. GM Francisco Vallejo described (in Spanish) his political views as "Anarcho-Taoist", which rather amuses me, though I'm not sure I'd be exactly that. Even the labels liberal and conservative don't mean what they used to, when the liberals were Whigs and the conservatives were Tories. Among the other pertinent spectra: "how green?", "how big the commons?" and "how big the State?"
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Wednesday, 29th June, 2011, 07:18 PM

Re: Liberal to Conservative or Vice-Versa as Aging Takes Place?

Not confused enough? How about this T-shirt motto:

I gave my job
to keep the world safe
for Chinese Communism
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Thursday, 30th June, 2011, 01:15 AM

Re: Liberal to Conservative or Vice-Versa as Aging Takes Place?

I used to be on the left but I have moved to the far right...
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Thursday, 30th June, 2011, 01:23 AM

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I think I have stayed over the years on what I consider the " pragmatic left ", but Paul's new graph now pushes me way out to the right!

Bob
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Thursday, 30th June, 2011, 02:40 AM

Re: Liberal to Conservative or Vice-Versa as Aging Takes Place?

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everytime it hurts, it hurts just like the first (and then you cry till there's no more tears)
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Thursday, 30th June, 2011, 08:47 AM

Re: Liberal to Conservative or Vice-Versa as Aging Takes Place?

Originally posted by ben daswani View Post

well when i was younger, you know, i was mostly just doing drugs i wasn't mature enough to handle and reading books i wasn't mature enough to understand and filling my head with ideas i wasn't mature enough to apply. as a result i ended up with a fascist slogan tattooed on my forearm. that's life i guess

sometimes people ask me, "hey man, why is that there wording tattooed on your forearm." i say, "well i'm an anarchist." and they say, "why would an anarchist tattoo a fascist slogan on his forearm." so i say, "clearly you don't understand anarchy."

i think the boringness of my joke represents the growth i've experienced

I would sort of expect a large tattoo of Kovalchuk's face on your...

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Thursday, 30th June, 2011, 09:25 AM

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We all await the day when Oxygen makes it to Ben's brain.
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Thursday, 30th June, 2011, 12:07 PM

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Originally posted by Ken Craft View Post

We all await the day when Oxygen makes it to Ben's brain.

Right to left for me. Are you too young to remember Billy Oxygen?

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Thursday, 30th June, 2011, 01:03 PM

Re: Liberal to Conservative or Vice-Versa as Aging Takes Place?

The song by Helix?
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Thursday, 30th June, 2011, 02:05 PM

Re: Liberal to Conservative or Vice-Versa as Aging Takes Place?

Anybody correlating between rating and anarchist leanings? :)

Originally posted by Peter McKillop View Post

Are you too young to remember Billy Oxygen?

The sartorial satrap of the southwest, once known as William Klarner. That's who Ken must have intended, for he capitalized the O in Oxygen.

Just visited the new chess.ca for the first time. Grayer, but better organized. For those who are more conservative: Greyer and better organised.
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