Great points... I would agree that the terms have become very ambiguous.oChaos.Haze wrote:
Hunter, gotchya man. I just assumed that if they become conservative after college, then it had something to do with college. You merely meant as a timestamp of their lives and maturing process, I take?
But I still disagree with the notion that more adults are conservative. I do believe that more conservatives become such as adults. I just don't know if it's the clear cut majority as you make it seem. Aside from what the word means, and how we use it, I think the majority of Americans are actually pretty liberal. Not liberal like abortions all around and trees are more important than people and shit like that. That's TV liberal. I mean liberal like, lets move to a higher plane of existence. Let's live for more than the status quo. Let others live how they want, and let me live how I want. I mean hell, most conservatives like less government. And with the way things are right now, that would be a liberal view in my point. I think everyone can agree that regardless of your views, we all want to move forward, and progress. Which in a way, is a liberal notion. Kinda gray area, but hopefully you see what I'm getting at. I just think the word is so distorted now, it's almost impossible to get a conservative to realize that they might be thinking liberally conservative, if that makes any sense at all. Still progressing forward, while keeping yesterday in mind. That's kinda how I think about it all. I feel like there's somewhere better we can get to, as long as we remember where we came from. Feels like a liberal ideal to me, meh.
It becomes hard when you battle between what the word liberal and conservative mean by definition, and what they mean according the the people saying them. I see what your saying, I just think that it's so backwards now, that being conservative might be liberal and vice versa, haha.
I guess what separates me from both liberal and conservative is my lack of hope in humanity for the most part. I really don't see America getting any better, only worse....