2025 RationalWiki 'Oregon Plan' Fundraiser

There is no RationalWiki without you. We are a small non-profit with no staff—we are hundreds of volunteers who document pseudoscience and crankery around the world every day. We will never allow ads because we must remain independent. We cannot rely on big donors with corresponding big agendas. We are not the largest website around, but we believe we play an important role in defending truth and objectivity.

Fighting pseudoscience isn't free.
We are 100% user-supported! Help and donate $5, $10, $20 or whatever you can today with PayPal Logo.png!
Donations so far: $8765.50Goal: $10000

Category talk:Rightists who turned left with age

From RationalWiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search


The Young Turks turned left with age[edit]

Q: You began as a Republican. What accounts for your transformation?

Cenk Uygur: The Republican Party. [Laughs.] My favorite quote is from Charles Barkley, who said: "I was a Republican until they went crazy." That about sums it up for me.

I was a liberal Republican in New Jersey, back when such a thing existed. I was socially liberal, economically conservative. Several things went wrong. Number one, I realized that the Republican Party is not at all fiscally conservative. Then there was the issue of foreign policy and there they went nuts: They invaded Iraq, when it made no sense whatsoever, then they started torturing people and engaging in warrantless wiretapping. All of this was insanity, and I had no interest in being stained by being near a party like that.


https://web.archive.org/web/20131203014748/http://www.questia.com/library/1G1-299257454/cenk-uygur

Cenk Started out right wing. 2607:FB90:DD2D:3C35:AC39:89F1:4DC8:58BC (talk) 23:01, 17 October 2022 (UTC)


There must be a bigger list of Former Right Wingers who turn left with age[edit]

So far only 10 articles but the articles showing Leftists who turn right with age is 130 so far. — Unsigned, by: 2607:FB90:9F07:4A45:AC39:D191:7EEF:7E22 / talk / contribs

Is Frank Schaeffer (son of Francis Schaeffer) notable enough to have a page? or should I link his dad's page?[edit]

I find the case of Schaeffer Jr to be really fascinating as not only has he been completely sincere (last I saw he now supports trans rights and campaigned against Putin despite being an Orthodox convert as well - good man!) about leaving his ways, but past his books and some satirical b-movies, would he count for his own article? Justhere (talk) 16:08, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

I sincerely question the usefulness of this category, as well as its counterpart Category:leftists who turned right with age. GeeJayKWhere all evil dwells Where every lie is true 16:20, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
I mean it's a little funny, as well as showing how peoples political values often shift over time. As to *why* they shift, it depends Justhere (talk) 14:05, 26 May 2024 (UTC)