[endthematrix]

You posted, so I have to pick your brain with another question. Who (or what) was it that influenced you towards what would be considered a “conservative” belief?

[Ronin]

Not sure really. Maybe it was the way that welfare kids were always treated with contempt by other kids. Having to live on charity. That sort of thing. I felt a lot of anger frankly, and with it a determination that I would be self-sufficient in all things and never depend on anyone else.

I didn’t start becoming politically aware until my mid-teens but even then I felt no inclination to follow the herd of kids into the liberal mind-set being pushed by the teachers.

I guess my rebellious teens expressed themselves by turning to the opposite side of the political trends of the time.

I could see that they were trying to push slogans down my throat... overpopulation being the big boogieman then — Watergate and Nixon as the fascist criminal who caused Vietnam (I remember how pissed off one teacher was when I pointed out that the war had been going on a long time before Nixon was elected).

I just developed an overriding contempt for liberal-democrats, for hippies, for anything that had to do with the sixties and early seventies (except for some of the music) and it stuck.

Later as my political knowledge became more comprehensive, I found no reason to change the opinions I had developed and haven’t.