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My thirteen year-old niece, here on Fantasy Island AKA San Francisco, thinks George Bush is worse than Hitler. But, as a product of the sixties, I didn’t start using critical thinking consistently until I was deep into my twenties. Looking back, however, I think the kernal of a conservative perspective must have always been there. Naturally? Influenced/nurtured by parents? I’ll never know what the deciding factor was, I suppose.

What’s sad to me is hearing people here around my age (61) sounding like my niece. Some age but don’t mature, I think. Uncritical belief feels so much better for some and requires so much less mental effort than the complexities of harsh reality.