As Greg pointed out to me today, for someone who considers herself more conservative than liberal, I sure do have a "bleeding heart." Ha ha. This was provoked by my spewing off of some measles trivia Eric had told me (Did you know that 800 000 children around the world die every year from measles? And that it's a incredibly easy disease to prevent? It takes less than a dollar to give a child a measle vaccination!), so I can see his point. Still, I don't really think I'm all that liberal. I'm fairly sure that I'm not really liberal or conservative, I'm just a moderate libertarian. Go libertarianism!
At any rate, my political leanings tend to be influenced by the people around me. Gindele was definitely liberal... during freshman year I was more liberal. Johnson, not so much, Chaffin, not so much. So in sophomore year, I was more conservative. In junior year I wasn't really one way or the other but I was probably slightly conservative. Now I hang out with the art kids and the amnesty kids and the red cross kids so I'm slightly more liberal again. Add that to the fact that I hate Bush, and there you go.
As Winston Churchill might have said (erm, according to my mom's horrible misquotation, anyways):
"If you're young and not a liberal, you have no heart. If you're old and not conservative, you've got no brain."
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