I used to have some lefty tendencies. I lived on campus during college. My first job was for a real stingy, selfish, "let them eat cake" type of rich ass hole. My family has voted Democrat forever. I just sort of bought into the ideology that says rich people are cold, uncaring, and selfish. I wouldn't say I had any kind of epiphany that changed that thinking. I just spent some time in the real world and got clued in.

Though I will say one of the things that really drove me to the right was all the Bush-Bashing that went on during the mid 2000's.

After 9/11, celebrities somehow got empowered to start commenting on world affairs. And it just became "cool" to shit on Bush. Maybe it happened before then, and I'm just not old enough to remember. But for me, that seems like the turning point where the media stopped having a liberal slant, and went full-blown leftist mouthpiece.

I listened to the incessant narrative of "Bush is a war-monger" and thought "what if I don't agree?".