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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 12:49 PM
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Are liberals/progressives born or made? nt

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harun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 12:52 PM
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1. Made. Forged by the hand of injustice, greed and oppression to
destroy that same hand.
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OPERATIONMINDCRIME Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 12:52 PM
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2. Made; Just Like Is The Case With Every Other Type Of Social Viewpoint.
Edited on Tue Feb-17-09 12:53 PM by OPERATIONMINDCRIME
If anything, republicans are born. The young are generally selfish and whiney, while taking shits everywhere and pissin all over the place.
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 12:54 PM
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4. and tempered with jaded short sighted cynicism of "that's just how it is."
and further tempered with their being "more American" by monsters who play games with nationalism.
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 12:52 PM
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3. I was made.
As were all 4 of my siblings.

My mother was kind of born into being a union labor progressive.

Dad swing votes. We have railed on him for letting this fall too far right by voting this way out of perceived fairness. He woke up and voted for Obama.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 12:55 PM
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5. Operationally, "(noun) made" just means "became that so long ago...
that I can't remember ever not being that way"

I.e., it's just an ignorance of history.
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AB_Positive Donating Member (151 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 12:55 PM
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6. Medical science says I was born the way I am.
Society 'made' me oppressed... so I guess I go with "made". It's all a technicality though because I went to school and learned things. Clearly I couldn't be a Republican.
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Turbineguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 01:07 PM
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7. Made
We are born with very little knowledge or the ability to think critcally, in other words, we're Republicans.

If we are lucky, our parents help us to form a consious mind ready for school.
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benld74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 01:25 PM
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8. Made over time
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 02:16 PM
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9. Made. After seeing and/or experiencing injustice, one becomes a liberal.
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 02:17 PM
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10. Made, though the making can come from anywhere. My parents are conservative Republicans. n/t
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ipfilter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 02:21 PM
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11. Made. There was a time in my life
where I would never have called myself a liberal. It took several years and a lot of reading for me to realize where my political compass really pointed.
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