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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.