At what age did you become a Right Wing Nutter ?

Rabidlamb

I had a good run as a young hippy liberal.
Save the whales, no US troops through Shannon, feed the world, reliable healthcare for all, no to Sellafield & all that.
Since I've been married, bought a house & had kids I've become much more conservative.
Liberal issues now do nothing for me, I see welfare state spongers as the lowest rung of society, if you can't afford that expensive operation will you just hurry up & die quickly, I don't care where my energy comes from as long as it's cheap, blow up half the middle-east if it keeps petrol below €2 a litre, I can't wait to shot a burglar.
It's getting worse the older I get & I'm only 39, what am I going to be like when I'm 70.
There's a chance I could vote FF again in my lifetime.

At what age did you flip to the darkside ?.

Guill

I'm somewhere in the transition.

I think its when you realise that you just want to be left alone to enjoy life.

stovelid

Rabidlamb wrote: »

I had a good run as a young hippy liberal.
Save the whales, no US troops through Shannon, feed the world, reliable healthcare for all, no to Sellafield & all that.
Since I've been married, bought a house & had kids I've become much more conservative.
Liberal issues now do nothing for me, I see welfare state spongers as the lowest rung of society, if you can't afford that expensive operation will you just hurry up & die quickly, I don't care where my energy comes from as long as it's cheap, blow up half the middle-east if it keeps petrol below €2 a litre, I can't wait to shot a burglar.
It's getting worse the older I get & I'm only 39, what am I going to be like when I'm 70.
There's a chance I could vote FF again in my lifetime.

At what age did you flip to the darkside ?.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVVOY3_j5OE

jimthemental

Saw carefree hipster type people my first day in UL, joined both FG and FF immediately. That being said I would be more centrally minded and consider everyone to be a shower of bastards getting in my way.

mikemac1

When I moved to Galway

The place is overrun with hippies :P

Rabidlamb

jimthemental wrote: »

Saw carefree hipster type people my first day in UL, joined both FG and FF immediately. That being said I would be more centrally minded and consider everyone to be a shower of bastards getting in my way.

Could be a UL connection as I went there aswell.
In one big lecture some girl got up hysterical that US bombers were landing in Shannon & wanted us all to mobilize ourselves & block the runway.
As her friends led her away she screamed that we had Iraqi babies blood on our hands.
Fine by me as long as I didn't have to stand on a cold runway in November.

El Weirdo

I never became one. Why would I want to become a cunt?

NinjaK

Rabidlamb wrote: »

I had a good run as a young hippy liberal.
Save the whales, no US troops through Shannon, feed the world, reliable healthcare for all, no to Sellafield & all that.
Since I've been married, bought a house & had kids I've become much more conservative.
Liberal issues now do nothing for me, I see welfare state spongers as the lowest rung of society, if you can't afford that expensive operation will you just hurry up & die quickly, I don't care where my energy comes from as long as it's cheap, blow up half the middle-east if it keeps petrol below €2 a litre, I can't wait to shot a burglar.
It's getting worse the older I get & I'm only 39, what am I going to be like when I'm 70.
There's a chance I could vote FF again in my lifetime.

At what age did you flip to the darkside ?.

no US troops through Shannon - since when was this a liberal left wing view? I would consider myself right wing and I dont want foreign troops on my soil. Espically since we have so many of them already (the North).
I would imagine many right wing people in many countries would think the same.
reliable healthcare for all - thats not right wing or left wing, that just common sense. If you cant provide your people with reliable health care then your a failure at leading your people.
if you can't afford that expensive operation will you just hurry up & die quickly - sad pathetic statement
I can't wait to shot a burglar. - im sure you mean shoot, I would guess you would hide under the bed. You come across as the type that screams at the sight of a spider.

smash

Rabidlamb wrote: »

I had a good run as a young hippy liberal.
Save the whales, no US troops through Shannon, feed the world, reliable healthcare for all, no to Sellafield & all that.

What a waste of your youth!

fenris

I was very mellow until my daughter was born, now I want to shoot on sight!

From 16 to 23 I was well right, now I've gone so far left I think I'm coming back around again.

Teyla Emmagan

Probably started changing to the dark side in my late twenties. Now I believe in bigger prisons, more stringent social welfare and paid fees for university. And I used to be very hippy dippy. Now I'm a right wing capitalist. I think when you get older you realise all these liberal aspirations are a money pit. And once it's your tax money you get fussy about where it's being spent.

I'm all for personal freedom and following your dream etc, don't get me wrong. As long as you can afford it yourself

Wouldn't agree with you about not caring where my energy comes from though OP. I do still have some sense of responsibility about what we're doing with this planet.

summerskin

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

Probably started changing to the dark side in my late twenties. Now I believe in bigger prisons, more stringent social welfare and paid fees for university. And I used to be very hippy dippy. Now I'm a right wing capitalist. I think when you get older you realise all these liberal aspirations are a money pit. And once it's your tax money you get fussy about where it's being spent.

I'm all for personal freedom and following your dream etc, don't get me wrong. As long as you can afford it yourself

Wouldn't agree with you about not caring where my energy comes from though OP. I do still have some sense of responsibility about what we're doing with this planet.

Sounds just like me, except for the last paragraph, i am with the OP on that one. Burn ALL the fossil fuels!!!! The cheaper the better.

El Horseboxo

Funny how you get more right-wing as you get older!

Ted was right ya know.

Rabidlamb

NinjaK wrote: »

no US troops through Shannon - since when was this a liberal left wing view? I would consider myself right wing and I dont want foreign troops on my soil. Espically since we have so many of them already (the North).
I would imagine many right wing people in many countries would think the same.
reliable healthcare for all - thats not right wing or left wing, that just common sense. If you cant provide your people with reliable health care then your a failure at leading your people.
if you can't afford that expensive operation will you just hurry up & die quickly - sad pathetic statement
I can't wait to shot a burglar. - im sure you mean shoot, I would guess you would hide under the bed. You come across as the type that screams at the sight of a spider.

You sound like a angry Shinner, lets just say we don't represent the same demographic.

Nothingbetter2d

Rabidlamb wrote: »

I had a good run as a young hippy liberal.
Save the whales, no US troops through Shannon, feed the world, reliable healthcare for all, no to Sellafield & all that.
Since I've been married, bought a house & had kids I've become much more conservative.
Liberal issues now do nothing for me, I see welfare state spongers as the lowest rung of society, if you can't afford that expensive operation will you just hurry up & die quickly, I don't care where my energy comes from as long as it's cheap, blow up half the middle-east if it keeps petrol below €2 a litre, I can't wait to shot a burglar.
It's getting worse the older I get & I'm only 39, what am I going to be like when I'm 70.
There's a chance I could vote FF again in my lifetime.

At what age did you flip to the darkside ?.

why on earth would ya want to be a right winger? mid field is the place to be :P

Chairman Meow

It happens to everyone as they get older. Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist exchange places.

Sergeant

It was a cold, dark, and windy evening in October 1995. I had contracted a nasty viral infection and was off school for a week. We had recently ‘got the Sky in’ and I was flicking through the channels when I discovered a show called ‘Free to Choose: A Personal Statement’ starring Milton Friedman. I watched 5 of the episodes over the coming days and realised the dude was talking quite a bit of sense, and that I agreed with him.

As I grew up I then realised that as long as many on the left conveniently put all ‘right-wingers’ into the ‘religious nut-job, bomb the towelheads, keep the weed illegal, 7 litre car’ category that they would never achieve anything only fringe of society status. A failure to understand your opponent is the surest means of failure.

GombeanMan

I've been Right Wing since my wee years:) Liberalism in it's current form never appealed to me.

NinjaK

Rabidlamb wrote: »

You sound like a angry Shinner, lets just say we don't represent the same demographic.

I would rather sound like an 'angry shinner' then a complete f'ing idiot.

brimal

NinjaK wrote: »

I would rather sound like an 'angry shinner' then a complete f'ing idiot.

Wow, you completely missed the light-hearted nature of this thread. :rolleyes:

cyrusdvirus

NinjaK wrote: »

I would rather sound like an 'angry shinner' then a complete f'ing idiot.

once you are aware that angry shinners ARE complete f'ing idiots that's all good then.


For me, i've probably always been a little bit more to the right of centre. Not that i can't see that some lefty policies are good ideas, but more often than not i would disagree with most left-ist statements.

dvpower

NinjaK wrote: »

I would rather sound like an 'angry shinner' then a complete f'ing idiot.

Yeah, but don't be greedy - settle on one or the other.

BraziliaNZ

I don't know, I used to be more right wing, but when you look around a city like London, where I am now, with the bankers and other leeches getting their massive bonuses, you can see that wealth is not evenly distibuted at all, and the middle classes are getting squeezed, the poor get less, while the rich get richer, from what I can see.
So I believe in higher taxes on the rich, I don't care if they worked hard to get there, I think people don't really need these obscene amounts of cash, it should be put to better use in the community. I don't think incarceration works much either, rehabilitation of young offenders is really the only way, not locking them up and throwing away the key. My family has been victim of a sickening murder by youths, but even with that I don't believe people are born plain evil, it's down to bad parenting and environment most of the time.
So I seem to be getting more socialist as I get older, I should live in Sweden. Hug a hoodie, etc.

kincsem

Rabidlamb wrote: »

At what age did you become a right-wing nutter?

At 19 when I started working, and had to pay for things.

Crooked Jack

NinjaK wrote: »

no US troops through Shannon - since when was this a liberal left wing view? I would consider myself right wing and I dont want foreign troops on my soil. Espically since we have so many of them already (the North).
I would imagine many right wing people in many countries would think the same.
reliable healthcare for all - thats not right wing or left wing, that just common sense. If you cant provide your people with reliable health care then your a failure at leading your people.
if you can't afford that expensive operation will you just hurry up & die quickly - sad pathetic statement
I can't wait to shot a burglar. - im sure you mean shoot, I would guess you would hide under the bed. You come across as the type that screams at the sight of a spider.

I'm quite glad I read this. i would be pretty left wing but it's good to see that there is common ground and that left and right arent diametrically opposed on every point.
I think the only way to get things done in politics is for people on both sides to accept that not all right wingers are rural, bible-bashing war mongers, not all left wingers are ditsy, over-idealistic hippies and not all centres are spineless, fence-sitting cowards.
Wether we find it easy to accept or not the people on the opposite side of the spectrum from us arent evil or misguided stereotypes, they are there because they genuinely believe that's what's right

charlietheminxx

What's wrong with having a bit of balance and not being either extreme? Although.... I am only 24 I really doubt I could ever become right wing though.

Crooked Jack

gatecrash wrote: »

once you are aware that angry shinners ARE complete f'ing idiots that's all good then.


For me, i've probably always been a little bit more to the right of centre. Not that i can't see that some lefty policies are good ideas, but more often than not i would disagree with most left-ist statements.

I am gettin so ****ing bored of this. I've only been on boards properly a few weeks at this stage but it seems to be a rule that no matter what the thread is it must inevitably descend into Shinner bashing.
What is it you're so afraid of?

Dudess

I'm definitely a tad less idealistic since I turned 30. Still fairly pinko though - and glad of it.

It seems it's the fashion now for kids to be all right-wing and no-nonsense and OTT capitalist. Just as clueless and out of touch with reality as the hippy ones they're so proud to not be, bless 'em.

Teyla Emmagan

Crooked Jack wrote: »

I am gettin so ****ing bored of this. I've only been on boards properly a few weeks at this stage but it seems to be a rule that no matter what the thread is it must inevitably descend into Shinner bashing.
What is it you're so afraid of?

The Shinners??!?

hooradiation

I haven't and I have no intention of ever doing so.


inb4 someone regurgitates that Churchill quote and thinks they're clever for doing so.