{"id":2746,"date":"2021-01-18T13:05:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T13:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/01\/18\/i-didnt-start-out-conservative\/"},"modified":"2021-01-18T13:05:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T13:05:59","slug":"i-didnt-start-out-conservative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/01\/18\/i-didnt-start-out-conservative\/","title":{"rendered":"I Didn’t Start Out Conservative"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like many conservatives, I didn't start out as one.  My background is working class, my parents were Democrats, and so was I until the age of 41.  I came of age in the '60s.  One of my heroes was John F. Kennedy, "the intrepid skipper of the PT 109" as I described him in a school essay written in the fifth grade.  I was all for the Civil Rights movement.    Musically my heroes were Bob Dylan and Joan Baez.  I thrilled to his Blowin' in the Wind<\/a>  <\/a>and his other civil rights anthems. <\/span><\/p>\n

As I see it, those civil rights battles were fought and they were won.  But then the rot set in as the  party of JFK liberals became the extremists and the destructive leftists that they are today. For example, Affirmative Action in its original sense gave way to reverse discrimination, race-norming, minority set-asides, identity politics and the betrayal of Martin Luther King Jr.'s  dream that people be judged "not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." To judge people by the content of their character is to judge them as individuals which is precisely the opposite of what tribalists and identity politicians do.<\/span><\/p>\n

As liberals have become extremists, people with moderate views such as myself have become conservatives.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. day, a good day to read his Letter from a Birmingham Jail<\/a> and reflect on how the race-delusional totalitarians who now infest the Democrat Party have strayed from King's ideas and vision.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like many conservatives, I didn't start out as one.  My background is working class, my parents were Democrats, and so was I until the age of 41.  I came of age in the '60s.  One of my heroes was John F. Kennedy, "the intrepid skipper of the PT 109" as I described him in a … Continue reading “I Didn’t Start Out Conservative”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,64,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-conservatism","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}