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How to Become a 'Recovering Liberal' 

DateThursday, August 6, 2009 at 8:44AM

Reading this story from a 'recovering liberal' today reminded me of Winston Churchill's adage: "If you're not a liberal when you're 20 you have no heart; if you are not a conservative when you're 40 you have no brain". (Hence why there are so many over-40 brainless liberals around.).

This story by 'Robin of Berkeley' published by American Thinker this morning is worth reading.

As I got into my 40's, my conservative, logical side started making more frequent appearances. I had some epiphanies: That, even with all my best efforts, the world was pretty much the same as when I entered it -- filled with both good and evil, dark and light. I had to admit, to my disappointment, that utopia wasn't around the corner, and that fate was in the hands of a Higher Power, not humans. I realized that life wasn't supposed to be easy, and that we shape our character through the hard stuff.

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