Sep 27, 2023·edited Sep 27, 2023Liked by Edward Dutton
This is all dependent on how you define "Conservative" and "Liberal".
For instance a liberal in the US is a completely different creature to a UK liberal or a traditional liberal (Locke or Hobbes) meaning someone who believes in freedom and the rights of the individual.
Prompted by a comment my eldest made about Howard Stern last night, I was hypothesising that, in general terms, thinking only goes in 1 direction; from liberal to conservative. Therefore, to be an older liberal one must always have been a liberal. I have nothing but instinct to bare this out but these findings may lend support to my hypothesis. I have certainly observed that, as liberals age they either mature and become more conservative on various issues or their thinking remains immature and unevolved.
The entrenched liberals I've known all lack genuine empathy and usually mistake their confected sympathies for empathy. They are, I suspect, pathologically incapable of empathy. This is observable among the current crop of UK Labour MPs as is their immature, reactionary, activist approach to politics.
This is all dependent on how you define "Conservative" and "Liberal".
For instance a liberal in the US is a completely different creature to a UK liberal or a traditional liberal (Locke or Hobbes) meaning someone who believes in freedom and the rights of the individual.
Prompted by a comment my eldest made about Howard Stern last night, I was hypothesising that, in general terms, thinking only goes in 1 direction; from liberal to conservative. Therefore, to be an older liberal one must always have been a liberal. I have nothing but instinct to bare this out but these findings may lend support to my hypothesis. I have certainly observed that, as liberals age they either mature and become more conservative on various issues or their thinking remains immature and unevolved.
The entrenched liberals I've known all lack genuine empathy and usually mistake their confected sympathies for empathy. They are, I suspect, pathologically incapable of empathy. This is observable among the current crop of UK Labour MPs as is their immature, reactionary, activist approach to politics.