# Have you always been a Conservative/Moderate/Liberal?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 19, 2009, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-always-been-a-conservative-moderate-liberal/510731 "2009-09-19T18:02:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-always-been-a-conservative-moderate-liberal/510731/11 "2009-09-20T04:03:30Z")

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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 control over people. I am now a libertarian.

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