As I said to Windmill, I went through an Ayn Rand libertarian girlboss phase in high school, which was very embarrassing.
First thing to break was actually gays are fine, then came actually it's probably good to not be (personally) racist, but I was stuck on "the market is good and if you don't have explicitly bigoted laws the best people will rise up and that's a good thing" for a while.
Big tipping points were when I realized how fucked up the foreign wars are, and I thought the dems were against those, then under Obama I realized they weren't, which I think is why I was like "well I guess the least bad thing u can support is libertarianism". Then the Bernie campaign happened and I was like "wait what that's a thing? There are other political beliefs u can have?" and it kinda snowballed from there.
More or less the same for me. I'll put some effort in:
Were you always to the left of your family's views or were there specific moments that began shifting your ideology?
As I said to Windmill, I went through an Ayn Rand libertarian girlboss phase in high school, which was very embarrassing.
First thing to break was actually gays are fine, then came actually it's probably good to not be (personally) racist, but I was stuck on "the market is good and if you don't have explicitly bigoted laws the best people will rise up and that's a good thing" for a while.
Big tipping points were when I realized how fucked up the foreign wars are, and I thought the dems were against those, then under Obama I realized they weren't, which I think is why I was like "well I guess the least bad thing u can support is libertarianism". Then the Bernie campaign happened and I was like "wait what that's a thing? There are other political beliefs u can have?" and it kinda snowballed from there.