It’s hard to put into a neat phrase, but I guess I’ve become a more relaxed person. I used to be very sensitive, non-confrontational, thin-skinned, and I cared a lot about what other people thought of me. Now, none of the above are true.
I suddenly understand so much more about your family. 
Catholic Democrat to agnostic non-Democrat (Republican until a viable third party develops).
For reference, the original (which I agree with):
From very liberal to very responsible. And from churchgoing baptist to mostly non-churchgoing-against-organized religion, plain old christian.
Thanks for the precise version to my rough paraphrase, rowrrbazzle.
So now I’m thinking, “Oh yeah, that was back in the day when people actually were mature at thirty.” Heh.
It excites me that there are SO many former homophobes out there. I think in a few years many homophobes of today will be all " meh!"
It seems like it’s getting more and more accepted. Still a lot of Yah Dudes (ubermasculine fratboys) and Bible thumpers but still overall people are realizing that we are human.
Mine is from thinking I was completely and totally straight at 14-15 to falling madly in love with a girl when I was almost sixteen. (summer before I turned 16)
I was insanely boy crazy, and had NO clue how two people of the same sex did it together.
Now I’m almost a stereotypical Noho lesbian type.
Well, not to put too fine a point on it, but as a child I thought I was a worthless piece of shit, and now I know that I’m awesome. Why that changed is complicated, but it has to do with looking at myself more objectively.
Children in the United States have the highest rate of poverty out of any other demographic. Cite. One quarter of U.S. children are improverished, 33% of all black and Latino kids are impoverished, and the situation is getting worse–a recent New York Times article posited that we’re looking at a future where 50% of black kids live in poverty. These rates are among the highest out of all the industrialized nations. If you don’t like social programs, fine, but you must realize that those children as a pure expression of proportion are the primary benefactors of government transfers. (Oh, and it’s worth adding that the poverty threshhold in the U.S. is 50 years old and that if someone were ballsy enough to adjust the rates for current cost of living, our poverty rates across the board would be shameful.)
I think you mean beneficiaries. 
I grudgingly concede that the Crayon and Applesauce Tax Initiative just isn’t a feasible means of generating public funds.
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
Mark Twain
From extreme fiscal conservatism in my late-teens/early to 20s, to moderate fiscal conservatism in my mid-20s, to very fiscally liberal now in my late 20s. Socially very liberal the whole time.
Those are my practical politics. My ideal utopia has been, is, and always will be anarchist.