[Ditto]

Who ever said it first was full of BS. I was conservative when I was 20 years old because I had studied history and also had a first hand, hard and gritty look at real life.

I knew, even being young when LBJs "Great Society" was created that there are two things that can never change; Fundamental economics, and human nature.

Now, virtually every morning when I wake up and turn on the local news and hear about the latest gang banger shooting or some horrendous child neglect story, I am not surprised. It could have easily been predicted 40 years ago. It is LBJs "Great Society" + 3 generations that we are living with.

If you pay people money for being dysfunctional, you will create more dysfunctional people which means you pay even more money to create even more dysfunctionality.

Be it "Bread and Circuses" in ancient Rome, or the Department of Human Services in 21st Century America --- nothing changes. Economic incentives are the same and people are the same as they were 2000 years ago.

[Michael.SF.]

I would say you may be the exception to the rule.

My experience has been that far more people go from being 'liberal' to being conservative then the other way around, myself amongst them.