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[–] WalkerFuenteWalther 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

I was a punk rock kid in the '80s, which made me a lefty by default. I saw a lot of things I didn't like, but couldn't quite get my head around it. Eventually I went back to school and had an econ professor introduce us to the works of Dr. Thomas Sowel. For me, that class was like someone focused the camera.

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[–] ScalarWhaler 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I was born into a very awesome conservative communty where my dad worked for the city... I got to sit in on a lot of meetings and understood a lot more than they probably thought I did... Libertarianism works until liberals show up and incite every form of imbalance and begin demanding budgeting from other previously assigned funds. Humans will always be tragic, greedy, lazy characters and therefor no one should have direct authority over another's personal choices, and that should include the capital they produce that they are taxed on. We should get to at the very least, choose where our taxes go. I'm so naturally libertarian I used to daydream about smoking a corncob pipe by the creek like some kinda Huck Finn... when I was 6. I told my mom and she was horrified. So I think libertarianism just came naturally to me... I got stuff I wanna do!

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[–] Redpilled_Canadian 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Like you very clearly stated, seeing the wasted tax money on managers and mismanaged projects from the inside has made me realize, we don't need a government to further the individuals agenda.

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[–] oddjob 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The thing is, the Southerners are more religious than they are Libertarian.

To over simplify, The Democratic Party used to be very strong in the south because they were religious. Democrats wanted to use the govt to give money to the poor and used Jesus's teachings as justification. Then communism came and the same actions that Democrats wanted to do had a new reasoning and dropped the religious reasons. Republicans started picking up Southerners by catering to their religious beliefs and now they practically have every political office in the south that isn't in a major city.

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[–] Broc_Lia 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

It was in this time I fell in love with the US. Like many Canadians, I had been raised in a very anti-American household. My family and friends would constantly look down their noses at Americans with an unmerited sense of superiority.

Interesting, even the conservatives? Incidentally, I genuinely do look down on most of the US government, but the people are pretty based in some places.

I don't have any single road to damascus moment, it was a gradual chipping away at my statist tendancies. The biggest shifts came from reading libertarian texts and encountering differences between public and private organisations first hand. I think the TV licence was my first really major departure from admiring government.

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[–] Broc_Lia 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Oh right, yeah, I used to think like that too. I'd just associated that attitude more with left-wingers than conservatives.

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[–] Groff 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

Easy. I've lived on this planet for 62 years - which is more than enough to reject the government and its supporting corporate elites. There is only so many lies that you can take and so many assaults that you can suffer. The choice is die or rebel. Submission is death!