A New Perfidious Challenge
Ah, ego. Such a thing of beauty. My challenge to the other members of this site (or anybody else with something to confess) is simple: What have you been wrong about? Pick some issues (hopefully serious ones), and explain how you were wrong about them, and what made you change your mind.
It has come to my attention that common ground can be found more easily in our errors, than in righteousness...
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Ross, the big one for me that
Ross, the big one for me that immediately springs to mind is my opinion of Ronald Reagan.
In the 80's and early 90's, I was a knee-jerk Reagan Hater, convinced that the doddering old fool had been present, Chauncey Gardner style, for many great events, but had really destroyed the country in many ways.
I have to credit discussions with our own Buckethead for changing my mind. Although I'm no booster of the Gip, and find the current fashion for Gipper Worship somewhat sickening, I realize that he managed to do a great deal. If in the negative column we put the Iran-Contra debacle, Bitburg, plenty of social welfare programs that should have been phased out rather than burned down, and other similar drastic and arguably callous maneuvers, you also have to realize that he was around to talk to Gorbachev, help the Berlin Wall down, oversee partial nuclear disarmament, and simplify the US tax code, though not much and maybe in some unwise ways.
I was wrong-- Reagan was not a monster. He was just a very active president who sometimes backed the wrong horse with disastrous results yet also achieved important gains.
On a larger scale, I have often held the conceit that I'm open to being proven wrong. I still think that's true, but I don't know. That might be some ego of my own coming through.