[teldon30]

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[XEHRpa]

Great article! In my wayward youth, I used to watch Donahue, listen to NPR, and donate to Green causes. But Praise Jesus, I saw the conservative light.

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[kitkat]

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[jackbill]

I assume that the author is currently gainfully employed. He sounds like the kind of person who would be.

[Tribune7]

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[syriacus]

I enjoyed reading this. The journey was different than mine, but the starting and ending points are similar.

The slanted coverage of the Clarence Thomas hearings, on PBS and the major networks, by Nina Totenberg and others, convinced me to break away from Liberalism and the Democratic Party. I watched most of the hearings and was stunned at the huge gap between what happened and what the liberal reporters said happened.

Who wants to be associated with a group that needs to lie so much?

[speedy]

An entertaining and incisive description of making that great intellectual and moral journey from the dark side. It's always inspirational to hear what motivates people to see the truth. Of course there are those who make the opposite trek -- but they always seem, like David Brock or Arianna Huffington, to have deep-seated emotional problems. There is no question in my mind that conservatives in general are more stable and balanced than liberals.

[First_Salute]

Nice catch.

[zeugma]

Excellent post. Thanks for making it. I think it needs to be reposted to get wider viewership.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Bump for an excellent article.

[tm22721]

Bork identified American cultural decline with two primary forces: radical egalitarianism, which I had seen firsthand at Legal Aid, and radical individualism

How can radical individualism be a liberal condition ? It is at the heart of entrepreneurial spirit and independence.

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[Snardius]

Larry told Steele that he had been mugged twice by blacks and now walked to the other side of the street at night when he saw black men approaching

The most ardent conservative is a liberal who's been mugged.

[EdReform]

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[MamaLucci]

Great post.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Two words come to mind after reading this article and they
are

Whitaker Chambers

Chambers' conversion from the dark side to the side of light mirrors most other such conversions (e.g. Horowitz) and Chambers is, to me, the Godfather of American Conservativsm. He influenced Buckley, Nixon, McCarthy and others. And he was the lone voice in the wilderness for a long time when it looked like communism was inevitable. He did get a freedom medal fairly recently IIRC, but I still maintain his contributions are under-appreciated.

[Doc-Joe]

bump for home reading

[Yardstick]

Wow, great piece. *bump*

[lieutenant columbo]

What a great article. The sad thing is that most college students (or high school students, for that matter) will never be exposed to conservative arguments as written by conservatives. Instead they get liberal distillations and distortions.

I made the conversion at around age 29 for many of the same reasons cited in this article...I was working in a liberal enclave (nonprofit org.) and started reading conservative material for an article I was writing. Once I read the arguments themselves, rather than relying on leftist interpretations of them, the conversion was done.

Thanks for posting this.

[Captiva]

friggin' awesome.