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No, not the Addams family Lurch.
I have noticed one of my in-laws undergoing this. He was always a good Christian with right-of-center views and we got along well. But then he contracted MS, and gradually became more and more dependent on government support (he has no close living family - we are as close as he gets to that). Now he never meets a government program he doesn't like, and his views are not just leftward-leaning, but going hard left. I have to avoid anything political now unless I want to alienate him, though I occasionally think "Let his leftist 'friends' come and visit him." Of course, they never do. Unless they're paid to do so.
Our youngest daughter, extremely intelligent but living now in Commiefornia, insists that the government money she's absorbing is only "government money," and apparently just appears out of nowhere. We can try to tell her otherwise but that doesn't get through the filter. Maybe she's not as intelligent as we thought.
I've also seen it moving a little the other way. Our oldest, the anti-capitalist entrepreneur, started moving rightward after paying his first self-employment taxes. He now owns firearms and is readying for SHTF. And he's officially "The Man" - he got elected to town council. Real life is pulling him rightward.
Any of you see this also?
I have noticed one of my in-laws undergoing this. He was always a good Christian with right-of-center views and we got along well. But then he contracted MS, and gradually became more and more dependent on government support (he has no close living family - we are as close as he gets to that). Now he never meets a government program he doesn't like, and his views are not just leftward-leaning, but going hard left. I have to avoid anything political now unless I want to alienate him, though I occasionally think "Let his leftist 'friends' come and visit him." Of course, they never do. Unless they're paid to do so.
Our youngest daughter, extremely intelligent but living now in Commiefornia, insists that the government money she's absorbing is only "government money," and apparently just appears out of nowhere. We can try to tell her otherwise but that doesn't get through the filter. Maybe she's not as intelligent as we thought.
I've also seen it moving a little the other way. Our oldest, the anti-capitalist entrepreneur, started moving rightward after paying his first self-employment taxes. He now owns firearms and is readying for SHTF. And he's officially "The Man" - he got elected to town council. Real life is pulling him rightward.
Any of you see this also?