As an Arkansas native, I was raised in a family of small business owners who were hard-working, God fearing, moral, ethical and generous to people in need. However, because of the political climate locally and in the state, their thinking and belief was that they would be disenfranchised if they did not vote in the Democratic party primary. After that, the best man win.But, because Arkansas was part of the Confederacy, and due to reconstruction and the carpetbaggers sent that took over in the Southern States, and the fact that Lincoln was a Republican, everyone in the South simply became Democrats in opposition to reconstruction. To this day, not much has changed on that point. However, I don't consider them "liberals" or really a Democrat. At least not the ones that we see and are use to on today's scene.Yet, I was raised with the hard-work ethic, free enterprise, pro-business attitude and values that I was reared with and given to me by my family. Fortunately, I was educated, out of state, in Tennessee at Memphis State University (now Memphis University). Memphis and Tennessee was different when it came to politics and my area of study was originally in a pre-law curriculum of liberal arts, consisting of political science, history and philosophy. All of the values I grew up with and believed of free enterprise and pro-business were values in the Tennessee Republican State Party and locally. Therefore, the first election I was able to ever vote in, I was a Goldwater Republican. I still think he had it right, we should have just bombed the hell out of North Viet Nam. Instead the populus decided we needed "the great society program" and the war was merely extened out over a decade instead and ruined and loss a lot of young lives. I was drafted and served '68-70.In looking at the candidates locally and looking at politican's positions, the men with the common values that I shared all happened to turn out to be Republicans also. Thus, I have been a GOP supoorter ever since by default. That is not to say I do not vote my conscience, look at a candidate's values and positions, and will select between the better of the two.But back to you question on "being inside the liberal mind," I personally feel that it partially has to do with the way a person was raised in the family, the family's values, background, etc. - i.e., were the parents blue collar workers, were they business owners, or were the parents white collar workers? The other part that I feel that has to do with the question is education - i.e., did they receive only a high school education, did they graduate, did they go to a University and receive a higher education afterwards, did they get a post college education? Or, as in several cases that I personally know of, did you simply have to work hard as a young man and had the drive and attitude that even though I'm not privleged enough to get a higher education, I'm going to make something of myself and despite my family background or lack of formal education, I'm going to rise above my circumstances. Not everyone has the mindset, attitude or ability of drive nor thought to do so, therefore, they settle for the work available and at hand and never progress beyond. I think that when this happens, at that point, they just want to become "a ward of the state" and say give me because they can not provide for theirself and later on for their family. Thus, the two political positions.The third part that I feel that makes a major, major difference in political philosophy is whether or not a person SERVED HIS COUNTRY IN THE ARMED FORCES? If you have never served in the Armed Forces, it has been my personal observation that there is a major difference in attitude, thinking and judgement towards national defense, homeland security and foreign diplomacy positions.One side represents the attitude of "just give me the chance to make something of myself and rise above," i.e. THE AMERICAN DREAM. The other reprsents an attitude of "I don't care, I don't want to try this, this is too hard, I can't do it, why should I have to try so hard - I'M ENTITLED: THUS THE GREAT SOCIETY ENTITLEMENT PROGRAM OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON"S THE GREAT SOCIETY.Frankly, I feel that there are a lot of educators, like your friend, teaching the children that they are all just "entitled" regardless of ability, learning or trying hard to succeed. The schools of today are not the schools and teachings that I grew up with. And I think that's a major problem with our children today - they feel "entitled" for doing nothing. Then the educators theirselves are saying, "I'm an educator, and I deserve more than the hard-working guy who works with his hands, has little education and makes better money than I do because he belongs to a union."All of this socialism from the the great society programs of the Johnson Administration, that we can no longer afford today, has set the tone for what all the "Obamaites" intend to perpetuate at the expense of hard-working Americans, because the lazy, who are entitled, are jealous of those who have built better lives than their own. There is a segment of society who doesn't care to work, much-less work hard and just wants to say, "give me." We'll just redistribute the wealth and I'll get my share. These people are today's "socialist Democrats."

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