- September 25th, 2020, 12:56 pm
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When I left seminary and got my first ministry job, I was on a mission trip pushing back against the organization we were serving with when they were trying to introduce the topic of white privilege.
My move from center right to center left fiscally started in 2015 at the age of 28 when I started my own business. Socially it was post-Freddie Gray. I went through probably a two year period where I actively rethought everything I thought I knew. I challenged it all - politics, faith, social issues, etc - to find out what I really believed. The first time I ever voted for a democrat was in the 2018 election for Senate in Tennessee.
Having to give up healthcare in order to start a business - and seeing what my brother has went through without health care - completely changed my views on that. Getting to know people with different backgrounds than me made me realize there might be places where people can’t just pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I’m by no means a leftist or progressive, and I would definitely still identify as a moderate, but I now sit left of center on many more things than I used to.
I also admit the Trump era taking the Republican Party from small government, conservative ideas to what it is today has influenced that move as well. That’s a story I’ve heard from many friends who were/are conservative but don’t agree with where the party has gone. It’s anecdotal, but I see more people in my circles moving left because of that than moving right to conserve what they have or think.
RubberMallet wrote: ↑September 25th, 2020, 9:52 amI get the generalization but that’s not me. When I was in college I pushed back on liberal ideas. Part of the reason I left Coastal and came to Liberty was to get away from those things.Jonathan Carone wrote:As I've made more money I've actually gotten more liberal. I see the things we're lucky enough to afford that should be much more accessible and realize how lucky we are but also how unfair many things are.you still haven't hit it yet. you are in limbo. in accumulation stage. and sure i'm talking mostly fiscally, but the relationship between fiscal and social conservatism is a interesting balance. I'm slightly left of center socially. but i'm bit farther right fiscally (I don't mind safety nets for the bottom of wage earners). If i was more socially conservative, i'd be much farther right fiscally.
Post accumulation we begin to preserve our capital and lessening our tax burden. I have stuff i want to keep my stuff is more steeped in aging than it is necessarily some decision we make. Sometime in our 40's our brains begin to lessen our curiosity and "progressivism". We react slower and begin to hold onto familiarity, routine, and are more likely to accept and want to preserve the norms they are used to (conservative).
You also were likely raised as i was in a UBER conservative household. I rebelled really my SR of highschool and the lion share of my friends and I were rah rah RATM type of guys and gals. Most of us now in our stages of life are most certainly way more conservative than we were in HS and College and even in our 20's. We've had this discussion at work, many of my late 20's-30's cohorts can feel the peel back of the far left they gravitated too in youth. That doesn't mean they listen to rush limbaugh and share ben shapiro articles amongst each other, they are just more closer to the center then they are to one side.
When I left seminary and got my first ministry job, I was on a mission trip pushing back against the organization we were serving with when they were trying to introduce the topic of white privilege.
My move from center right to center left fiscally started in 2015 at the age of 28 when I started my own business. Socially it was post-Freddie Gray. I went through probably a two year period where I actively rethought everything I thought I knew. I challenged it all - politics, faith, social issues, etc - to find out what I really believed. The first time I ever voted for a democrat was in the 2018 election for Senate in Tennessee.
Having to give up healthcare in order to start a business - and seeing what my brother has went through without health care - completely changed my views on that. Getting to know people with different backgrounds than me made me realize there might be places where people can’t just pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I’m by no means a leftist or progressive, and I would definitely still identify as a moderate, but I now sit left of center on many more things than I used to.
I also admit the Trump era taking the Republican Party from small government, conservative ideas to what it is today has influenced that move as well. That’s a story I’ve heard from many friends who were/are conservative but don’t agree with where the party has gone. It’s anecdotal, but I see more people in my circles moving left because of that than moving right to conserve what they have or think.
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