I'm always curious when I see this sort of statement written.
My first vote ever when I was still in high school and turned eighteen was for Richard Nixon in 1972. How was it that I had reasoned for myself that Socialism was the scourge of mankind when others still cannot see it to this day?
Because you're naturally smart and the rest of us are idiots? Orrrrr.... it could be that we came from Democrat families or general backgrounds and used our own minds to figure out what the deal was?