I’m exaggerating. But then, I think Paul will back me up that there is something to my headline.
Jennifer just blogged about her alma mater being utterly misrepresented in the news. I wrote my thoughts in her comments, remembering my own school and my loving relationship with ESA
So you had a “right-wing spurt” in college? Did you just stay there, or did you move back to the “center.” (Of course, if you admit the latter, that means that your politics were even more right wing/libertarian than they are now. A scary thought!)
Well, the bad part about blogging and getting frustrated with some theological discussions is that I look for other things to talk about…. And to the extent that I revisit politics I tend to revert.
In general, I’m a lot more pragmatic than I used to be on the small stuff. In Minco, I actually wanted more zoning and I voted in favor of property taxes to support a public library, etc.
(The problem with free market thinking at the municipal level is that we are in a zero-sum game with other municipalities. Annex and zone or else watch another town annex and zone a foul smelling proprety-value-destroying entity next to you.)
But, remember also that college is full of radical thinking as well as radical reactions. Many of the teachers in the soft sciences considered “the Reagan revolution” to be an ongoing disaster. I never thought of you as someone who would agree with that claim….
If the Reagan revolution entailed taking “Ayn Rand’s novels as real literature” — ug — then, you’re right, I’m a pinko. 🙂
But as I understand it, Rand was read out of the conservative movement in 1960. She or her work had next to nothing to do with the “Reagan Revolution.”
Maybe it’s just Rand didn’t “take” with me. Apparently unlike many in my cohort (such as yourself), I picked up Rand in junior high and thought, “this is the stupidest thing I’ve ever read.”
And I was a pimply-faced geek and everything.