What Would a Country Without Labor Unions Look Like?

[SharonAnn]

9. Of course not. But I hope I've given some food for thought.

It was things like this, and reading Molly Ivins, that got me to thinking that maybe my "conservative Republican" beliefs were not consistent with my real beliefs.

And, this was the mechanism I used to expose my husband to "liberal" thinking. He went from being a "conservative Republican" to a "liberal" Democrat. This mechanism and pointing out how the "conservative" position often caused serious economic hardship for most of society, except for the 2%.

I think we often grow up espousing something that is our parents' beliefs and/or our peer group's beliefs.

It's a process as we work through thinking about our values, beliefs and actions. Then we become aware of how our political beliefs and actions (esp. voting) are an important way of how we express our values and beliefs.