I agree. I was always fairly conservative growing up, and then I went to college. I'd say I became more libertarian there, but only because I realized gay marriage, marijuana (I've actually never smoked weed, surprisingly), and similar libertarian positions were just better than the neocon conservativism we got post 9/11. I'd say I was always libertarian, just didn't know how to voice it or explain.
And then there was college. And it made me even more entrenched in my beliefs. They always say college is supposed to make you more liberal. Not for me. I went full on libertarian/conservative (I call myself conservatarian) and always said to my parents and friends college made me more right-leaning. I was tired of seeing the attacks on conservatives and similar values. As Greg Gutfeld has said, being on the right is the new punk. I agree. I wasn't originally for President Trump (I wanted Rand Paul, Cruz, and then Trump), but I voted MAGA on election day and dealt with the reeing the day after on campus (luckily I found out a friend of mine who I thought was full liberal was actually MAGA, and she was hot).
It wasn't myself who made me this way, it was the left. You know how those first generation Cubans and people who fled the Soviet Bloc generally vote for the right? Because they saw the horrors? They vote that way because the left made them vote right. They saw it. I'm the same way (although luckily born in America and not having had to deal with state instituted communism).
I agree. I was always fairly conservative growing up, and then I went to college. I'd say I became more libertarian there, but only because I realized gay marriage, marijuana (I've actually never smoked weed, surprisingly), and similar libertarian positions were just better than the neocon conservativism we got post 9/11. I'd say I was always libertarian, just didn't know how to voice it or explain.
And then there was college. And it made me even more entrenched in my beliefs. They always say college is supposed to make you more liberal. Not for me. I went full on libertarian/conservative (I call myself conservatarian) and always said to my parents and friends college made me more right-leaning. I was tired of seeing the attacks on conservatives and similar values. As Greg Gutfeld has said, being on the right is the new punk. I agree. I wasn't originally for President Trump (I wanted Rand Paul, Cruz, and then Trump), but I voted MAGA on election day and dealt with the reeing the day after on campus (luckily I found out a friend of mine who I thought was full liberal was actually MAGA, and she was hot).
It wasn't myself who made me this way, it was the left. You know how those first generation Cubans and people who fled the Soviet Bloc generally vote for the right? Because they saw the horrors? They vote that way because the left made them vote right. They saw it. I'm the same way (although luckily born in America and not having had to deal with state instituted communism).