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People change. The old stereotype is that people tend to be very liberal in high school and college but become very conservative with a mortgage and a couple of kids. I don’t know how often that actually plays out but it makes sense.
When you don’t have anything it’s easy to demand a lot of things from the government. When you have money you want to do everything you can to hold onto it and that means not paying taxes. It flips around again when people are super rich though: then they don’t mind paying taxes (because their effective tax rate is very low). It’s the middle class who get screwed the most.
My dad, after a discussion in my young adult years turned political: "if you're not a liberal when you're young, you don't have a heart. If you're not conservative when you're an adult, you don't have a brain."
Well, dad, I have made it to adulthood with brilliant children and great relationships with them to boot. I'm still a screaming liberal and you're still a racist that is gargling the balls of a wannabe dictator.
He was half right.
Well, broken clocks and all...
Brains = pull up the ladder like we did, kids! What do you mean you don't have a ladder to pull up?
That same quote is in a lagwagon song. I think it's a sound byte from the movie Jacob's Ladder, because there's a few others on that album from that movie but I might be wrong.
Too lazy to search it right now but I think that quote was originally attributed to Winston churchill
pretty sure it was benjamin franklin
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/24/heart-head/?amp=1. I guess we're all wrong
No, I'm pretty sure it was Michael Scott
Cleopatra said it first.
That man? Albert Einstein.