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I am hoping that the Irony is not lost on my readers. here is a leftist, whose life ideology is based on the fact of tabula rasa, who ends up being living proof of the opposite, which technically puts him at odds with his ideology.

Twin studies ahve had some AMAZING correlations that are so astronomically similar as to be totally freaky (like the two that were separated as babies, didnt know they had a twin, both joined the fire company, both served hte same political party, and both married a wife of the same name and similar features, as well as other things)

In this case, his ideological point would have been that he would have turned out to be in the theater, and not in politics. after all, the people that raised him were deep in the arts, and the arts and politics are not as intertwined as many think. for the most part, artists actually dont like or care about politics (that is unless they are taught that the only valid art is socialist realism).

Anyway, he turned out like the parents that put him up for adoption, and did so while lliving under a totally different environement from the political one, and did so during a time, unlike today, when his politics were not favored, and so it wasnt the easier path.

i wonder how long it will be before he realizes that he is the product of another socialist having sex in office and then rather than do the good thing and proper thing dumped him in adoption so their careers can go forward. not only was he given up by his parents for reasons that are also against the ideology, but he hasnt yet woken up to the fact that he never knew his family because he was a problem for how they wanted to appear in the world.

he was not adopted bcause they were poor, they were unable to make money, they were incapable of being parents, etc.

he was adopted bcause these well off socialists thought politics was more important than family. which is precisely why they believe that tabula rasa is correct. if it isnt, then what they just did, was not a social goodness, but a selfish act of avoidance and dumping their issue on others for expediency.

Matthew Taylor finds politics is in his genes
He was given up for adoption at birth. He never knew his biological parents. And for 36 years he knew nothing of his personal and political roots, or what drove him from youth to pursue the Liberal tradition.

Now Matthew Taylor, the Liberal Democrat MP, has revealed the extraordinary story of how he discovered his real mother – and that he is descended from a prominent Liberal who served in the House of Commons for almost 30 years.

Finding his mother was shock enough; discovering that politics really is in his blood was almost more overwhelming.

“The odds on my having followed in my great-grandfather’s footsteps as a Liberal MP were minuscule,” he said. “In that moment I felt everything I thought I knew about why I am who I am was turned upside-down. In the battle between nature and nurture, nature seemed to be having a laugh.”

In 1963 Taylor was taken from his mother at only a few hours old and was given up for adoption. He was brought up by Ken Taylor, a television scriptwriter, and his wife Jill, a stage manager, who had discovered that they were unable to have any more children.

Taylor enjoyed an idyllic childhood divided between Cornwall and London, where he spent many an hour in television studios watching his father’s work, which included The Camomile Lawn and The Jewel in the Crown, being filmed.

He might have been expected, like his sister Vikki, to have followed a career in theatre or television: Vikki grew up to become executive director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Instead, Taylor was always strongly drawn to politics – and Liberal politics in particular.

Even at school he was rooting for the Liberals, although it was unfashionable in the wake of the Jeremy Thorpe scandal. At university he was elected on an alliance ticket as president of the Oxford Student Union, when being a Labour activist was far more trendy.

After leaving Oxford he became the party’s economics researcher. By 24 he was in the Commons as a Liberal MP for Truro. Only at the age of 36 did he decide to investigate his biological roots – and began to uncover a series of remarkable coincidences.

When he visited the office holding his adoption records, he discovered that, quite separately, his real mother had at the same time decided to try to find him. Maggie Harris, who had become pregnant with Taylor during a brief affair while an art student in London, had written to the office only weeks earlier asking for information about him.

He wrote back, telling her only that he was happy and had a good job – but not mentioning that he was an MP.

Then came the return letter. Quite unprompted, Harris told her son, in her first few sentences, that he was descended from a Liberal MP. She also mentioned that she was a local councillor and was in the middle of an election campaign.

It was not only Taylor who was amazed by the revelation. His adoptive parents, who had backed his attempts to find his birth parents, were equally surprised. “We were completely gobsmacked,” said Jill Taylor. “We never knew politics was genetic.”

[correction from artfldgr: they never wanted to learn, too much of their world was invested in the lie. there was absolutely no way to reason with them, it took life circumstances to smash them gobsmacked about the head till their brain rung for them to then act like they were ignorant of it]

Taylor’s ancestor was Sir Percy Harris, whose children emigrated to New Zealand. Harris, who was educated at Harrow and Cambridge, was elected in 1916 as MP for Market Harborough at a by-election.

He lost the seat but was reelected as MP for South West Bethnal Green, hanging on to his seat until 1945, after almost every other Liberal MP within 100 miles had lost theirs.

Taylor has proved equally tenacious. In the 1980s and 1990s he retained his Truro seat while his Liberal colleagues were reduced to a small guerrilla force in parliament.

Harris, who became deputy leader of the Liberals, was described as an MP who spoke “frequently on every kind of topic in the Commons”. Taylor, in turn, has held almost every senior spokesmanship that the party has to offer to such an extent that it became something of a joke in parliament. While Harris was elected deputy leader, Taylor recently missed out on the same post by two votes to Vince Cable.

He also found that he had several physical traits in common with his ancestor MP, including terrible eyesight.

Upon meeting his mother in New Zealand, Taylor discovered that the coincidences with his genetic family did not stop there. His great-aunt, Lucille Harris, had played a leading role in a BBC radio play, In Other Days; it had been written by his adoptive father Ken in the 1950s.

Taylor’s adoptive father had also written a television series about the suffragettes, Shoulder to Shoulder – and Harris, it turned out, had been a staunch supporter of women’s suffrage.