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Has anyone here had their political views changed by someone of an opposing ideology?

Has anyone here had their political views changed by someone of an opposing ideology?

  • I am a Liberal who was once convinced to change my views by a Conservative

    Votes: 3 11.1%

  • I am a Conservative who was once convinced to change my views by a Liberal

    Votes: 5 18.5%

  • No

    Votes: 19 70.4%
  • Total voters
    27
Marrybore

Marrybore

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Have you?
 
I've tried to change my political views but the left just doesn't yell at me enough orr call me enough names. Maybe if they upped their game a bit I'd convert.
 
Yes, I have. Specifically, on the matter of universal healthcare.
 
Lutherf said:
I've tried to change my political views but the left just doesn't yell at me enough orr call me enough names. Maybe if they upped their game a bit I'd convert.
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Perhaps if they called you communist, libtard and traitor more you much change your opinion
 
In my 20’s I would categorize my self as a economic libertarian, with traditionalist ideas for culture.

ie no gay marriage, no accommodation for religious minorities to be able to join police forces (RCMP and Turbans for Sikhs)

Over time I became libertarian on social issues. Economically pragmatic, neither left or right just a focus on what is needed and that changes depending on the country and what it needs at the time.

i do believe the government has a role in moderating the economy both on the upside and downside.

This was not done by a specific person just reading
 
Marrybore said:
Have you?
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Not directly, but once I saw that "conservatism" was a front for authoritarianism, their neverending flailing pushed me farther and farther away.
 
Lutherf said:
I've tried to change my political views but the left just doesn't yell at me enough orr call me enough names. Maybe if they upped their game a bit I'd convert.
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If you only understood their righteous anger. But listening has never, ever been a strong suit of the Right. :shrug:
 
Young people kind of change their views a lot. I'd say after 30, your views are pretty solid.
 
Marrybore said:
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I've changed my views on many issues. Some 'right' leaning, some 'left' leaning. If its' a good idea I try to incorporate it. We all have cognitive biases and it takes a concerted effort to try and overcome them. It just takes work.

I try to do mental exercises like imagining that a thought it came from the opposite party or was backed by different people, does that change how I think about a position? What sort of data would tell me if this was a good idea or a bad idea? What would I expect to happen if this were true? false? etc.. Its more work and requires me grabbing and doing my own stats, but it's also instructive in how often my initial assessments about a situation were wrong or naive. Take an idea, make a prediction, confirm or reject the prediction, modify the idea and repeat.
 
Often.
 
Nope. Everyone of an opposing ideology to me makes zero sense to me.
 
Abortion. You can in fact find my views change on here throughout the years if you search back. There were some arguments that I made then and fight now.

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Marrybore said:
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I couldn't answer your question as worded. But, I was a liberal Democrat for many years until about the time Ronald Reagan came into office and I learned the error of my ways while finding conservative friends. My parents had been poor and I was poor. I remember waiting for the minimum wage to go up so that I could earn more money. No one actually convinced me to change my views but I began to see the truth more and more. Democrats and liberals have good hearts and have their hearts and emotions and feelings in the right place. But, they simply have no clue that their policies don't work and when they don't work their solution is to always do more of what wasn't working in the first place. They never reach the point of understanding that their policies don't work. They simply just can't comprehend that while their goal is noble, their method of getting there doesn't work.
 
Phys251 said:
If you only understood their righteous anger. But listening has never, ever been a strong suit of the Right. :shrug:
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Many years ago the right claimed the moral high ground and had a holier than thou attitude, wanting to cram their values down everyone's throats. The last few years that has done a complete and total 180 and now it is the left who claim the moral high ground and has the holier than thou attitude, wanting to cram their values down everyone's throats. They are tolerant of everyone who agrees with them and completely intolerant of anyone who doesn't. Hillary ran on a campaign theme of "Stronger Togeter" but apparently together didn't include the millions of people she called deplorables.
 
Libtards have never convinced me to see things their way anymore than anyone could convince me to dive off a 500 foot cliff into a shallow rocky pond full of starving crocodiles that is surrounded by 200 polar bears.
 
I change my views often as I learn more about a subject. If you don’t you’ve stopped learning. And if you stopped learning you’re a pretty sad human being.
 
"A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life."

Muhammad Ali
 
Moderate Right said:
Many years ago the right claimed the moral high ground and had a holier than thou attitude, wanting to cram their values down everyone's throats.
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And they haven't stopped.
 
Phys251 said:
Not directly, but once I saw that "conservatism" was a front for authoritarianism, their neverending flailing pushed me farther and farther away.
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Question from a former book converted Democrat.

If that is true, why is it that since 1933 virtually all laws that restrict humans are crafted into law by Democrats? They are the true authoritarians, not republicans.

Proof is that Trump has vastly deregulated.

I believe that though Carter also did, Reagan pushed harder.
 
CimpleMan said:
"A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life."

Muhammad Ali
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I once sat at the table across from Ali (then Cassius Clay) as one of my troopers joined him, his brother and his wife, playing pinochle in the day car on a train trip. Ali got on at Los Angeles and departed in TX.

I played two days with my army group so we saw him for two days.
 
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