I think sometimes it's a personality thing. I've never been a social butterfly and always been independent and free-thinking almost to a fault. If I look back when I was in school even though I was never disruptive or a troublemaker I was not liked by that many teachers. Don't think they weren't handing out blue pills back in the late 90s and early 00s just not as crazy as today. They try to draw you into how important for your future their whole world is and you need to listen to everything they say and I just wasn't interested. It makes them even more unhappy when they think you're one of the "smart" kids and you aren't interested in their stuff. Now as an adult most of my friends are older or younger and I haven't talked to anyone from high school in 15 years. I'm supposed to be a millenial but I don't really have any millenial friends. Most of my friends are conservative but they aren't all on the Trump train necessarily. Politics isn't a huge point though we know where each other stands but there's no animosity.

My brother on the other hand was really one that had to be well-liked by everyone. All the teachers at school loved him and he was in all their clubs where they would pass along all their enlightened thinking. He has loads of friends most of which are left over from high school and at least the majority of them are leftists. His wife's family is almost all severe TDS. He's by no means dumb but it seems like it's just a case of being surrounded by so much of it you believe it all I guess.