Age and Political Philosophy

I often think of standing with money in hand giving it out to people - needy or not - just handing out money - and carrying it forward - what does it do for the people who receive it?

Political philosophy and age group

In Dear Diary SoCal was writing to MissDixy about her youth which often equates with liberalism, and as she matures she may cross party lines into a more conservative approach to solutions....

Do the young naturally have a fresh 'socialist movement' in becoming members of our world - looking with new ideas and dreams which may or may not come into fruition?

Or is that what 'liberalism' is truly about?

As for conservativsm - I realize there are young conservatives however it would seem that ideal belongs to those who may have realized the results of socialist failures (and there are many unfortunately) that dreams must have a focus on function and follow through - that the dream has to grow into reality -

Or is conservatism a result of understanding what will work for society?

Just muddling around... it's early but I didn't want to let the thoughts go before I got them down...hopefully those who have changed affiliations or ideals could explain this phenom....

I often think of standing with money in hand giving it out to people - needy or not - just handing out money - and carrying it forward - what does it do for the people who receive it?

*Is it like a visit to Disneyland and problems are clear for a moment in time?
*Is it an investment towards understanding that the person can put the money to use and create some investment in the future?
*Is it money hoping the receiver will build on it and share with others?

Who learns from handouts anyway? And if there is something learned - is it valuable in the future as well as the present time?

Finally (will she ever shut up?)....

I believe a healthy society experiences positive growth through contribution rather than expectation of gifts. In all of our lives there will be times a helping hand will lift us up, but to live a life with that goal in mind stunts the possibilities of a life well lived. Of never having stretched one's abilities. Of never knowing how far we can take ourselves.

You have a good enough point, I suppose. I guess a nice example would be universal health care. Ever see those commercials where all the kids say stuff about fixing health care? Something tells me they aren't talking about HSAs. However, looking at it objectively, it sucks, even though it sounds nice.

On the other hand, I think it's more complicated than that. I think a whole bunch of things factor in here. Kids rely mainly on their upbringing while adults have more real life experiences to shape their views. Also, they have to absorb a huge amount of liberal and Leftist information compared to a decade or two ago in schools and other places.

I think the main reason why I am not a liberal today, although I am even younger than missdixy, (I think) is because I became interested in politics at around age 11 and my views were pretty much fully formed by 12, before I had any liberal teachers or at least ones who could interject liberalism in more than small ways. So I was already prepared for liberalism when it came in school through teachers. And now, I am becoming more deeply entrenched in conservatism, and I doubt that anything or anyone in the future will bring me out of it, though there will surely be such people. But that's just me.

I have found, on forums, that the younger generation is generally left/left or socialists. Our universities are flooded with the socialist dogma, starting at the proff level,they teach their bias socialist ethos to the students whom blindly believe the tripe. The older a person gets the more Conservative we become, I believe as we mature we file away our experiences in our "Lesson's learned file" and draw on those experiences when a situation arises anew. The youth of today have so much handed to them on a silver platter that only a small minority know what hard work means and those youth are usually conservative because they've earned and worked for their success. Socialist don't believe in hard work, just handouts for those they deem "Needy". They like spending other peoples' money for their beliefs and ethos. I'm tired of their hands in my pocket and my purse. Let them pay for their socialist eutopia, I doubt they could fund a soup kitchen once combined as a group.

Again, well spoken. Freedom without discipline equals anarchy. Maybe I'll adopt that in my signature.

I guess I am a bit backward in regards to the conservative liberal thing the cliche being you get more conservative as you get older...I voted for Ronnie twice and did it without regret ....but now I see religion and social politics more and more taking the place of the pragmatic optimism I saw in Ronnie and his comtemporaries...........We seem to have become stagnant as a country and a sa culture and conservatism seems strangely innappropriate to me somehow.....
I hear conservatives supporting a war that if they are honest with themselves know conservatives of another era would never have engaged in and when asked why we should support a war that doesn't make sense to anyone their only answer seems to be blind loyalty and don't be a coward.....
Secondly lets put this socialist don't believe in hard work manure to rest..it shows a marked misuderstanding of political realities.....and is quite frankly BS
I never considered myself socialist by any stretch ...but if universal health care, education reform, and keeping other people's religion out of my life then sign me up