I was in my early 40s when I went from being a centrist, deficit-hawk Democrat/Perotist to being the leftist librul I am now.
Rudyard Kipling abandoned his ardent militarism after the death of his son at the Battle of Loos in WW1.
Which of course, would leave you more vulnerable to actual threats.
That is, of course, even if we take the theory at face value. Personally, I find “People who don’t agree with me are mentally weak” a pretty lame approach.
Dennis Miller?
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Generation Jones? Meh. I think the Strauss-Howe system is more on target. (I was born in 1963, and I think I have a lot more in common, culturally, with people born 10 years later than I was than with people born 5 years earlier; the Strauss-Howe system classes me as 13th Gen or Gen X, not Baby Boomer.)
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Cite?
Because I think (based on internal evidence) that he wrote “Natural Theology” (see the 5th verse) later than that.
Question answered.
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What about those Medieval kings and their deathbed conversions?
According to Al Franken, Miller was always right-wingy in private, and only later in his career did he incorporate it into his act.
For the OP’s question: No liberal is too old to get mugged.
Whack-a-Mole writes:
> Frank Schaeffer did an about face. His father, Francis Schaeffer, was a leading
> religious right guy in his day. I forget the details of Franks story but somewhere
> along the line he moved away from die hard conservatism to an independent
> today (you will see Frank on TV talking about this on occasion).
He also ceased to be an evangelical Protestant and became a member of an Eastern Orthodox denomination:
It’s interesting to see some people’s idea of “a very late age.”
My dad, staunch conservative republican his entire life, voted for Obama—“I think the country needs someone like him right now”. Dad’s 88 years old, so I’ll cut him a little slack. Of course mom, age 89, still has seniority and she voted McCain, so go figure…
Malcolm X famously abandoned his racially divisive ideology when he was about 39. That’s not very late in terms of the average life span (obviously it was for him because of his assassination), but I always had the sense that was a rare thing. After about 12 years of commitment, he gave up on the cause of his life after deciding he’d been wrong. When I was little I was really impressed by that.
Senator Robert Byrd being one of them.
Good to know that!
Because I’m being very unlucky… I know just the most intransigent ones.
Well, in my own case, conversion came rather late in life. I’m 68, retired and have had broadband now for 4 years. Ah, time and the internet.
How have I changed?
I started as a rather credulous believer in the basic fairness of American foreign and domestic policies. What has become self-evident to me is that big corporations own us and have been driving government and the body politic into debt for the last 150 years with little regard for whom they displace.
This has only been made possible by our considering them people with “inalienable rights.”
Change the world? Change that.
Politicians of all ages find God when they get found out…
If it results in fewer cats, I am.
Anthony Flew recently converted from an Atheist to a deist. Of course, it’s been pointed out that his mental facilities are in great decline now (not because of the switch, mind you).
He never became a pacifist, but never returned the jingoistic militarism of his earlier work.