re: #367 WindUpBird

I’m wondering what I could get mugged with that would make me change my opinions about art, about equal rights for everyone under the law, about people pitching in to create a society that works for all its services, about creating a health care system that distributes the load properly like the rest of the civilized world

Maybe people whose convictions change on a dime because of one event, maybe their convictions weren’t that set in the first place?

I really don’t think it happens. People’s opinions may change a little, grade one way or another, but I don’t see enormous ideological changes happening.

Even after 9/11 it really didn’t happen. My moonbatty friends were still moonbats. My centrist liberal friends were still centrist liberals. Some of us were baying for blood, but we were the ones who’d always kept that door open for ourselves.

Maybe I just know a lot of set-in-their-ways folks.