# Did anyone else start out liberal/conservative and then change over later in life? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 6, 2020, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-start-out-liberal-conservative-and-then-change-over-later-in-life/846014 "2020-01-06T04:11:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 41
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-start-out-liberal-conservative-and-then-change-over-later-in-life/846014/41 "2020-01-06T17:09:00Z")
2009 thread: [Have you always been a Conservative/Moderate/Liberal?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=11575200) In that thread I said, > [@Have you always been a Conservative/Moderate/Liberal?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-always-been-a-conservative-moderate-liberal/510731/11): > > In college I was \*extremely \*liberal. Borderline socialist/communist. > > After college I did a 180 and became a right-wing conservative. > > Long story short, but it dawned on me that both are wrong. Socialists and right-wingers desire power and control over people, and I don’t want power and control over people. I am now a libertarian. I haven’t changed much since 2009, though today I would consider myself more of a “libertarian conservative” than a libertarian. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-start-out-liberal-conservative-and-then-change-over-later-in-life/846014)._