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I had a roommate from the left coast for a while during my second year at UAF. He defined himself as a liberal but he was a hard worker, took six or seven seven classes a semester and worked full time, very intelligent. He usually didn't get more than a few hours of sleep a night. Worked his ass off.
This account from the original post may be true, but over the course of the time he spent here in Alaska he realized taxes were taking away his hard earned money to support bums, guns weren't scary after all, trucks aren't evil gas-guzzlers, and socialism isn't a wonderful thing but individual freedoms are.
He went back to the east coast, I heard from him this week. He just bought his first AK-47.
Paradigms change. I've never seen someone go liberal, it may happen but I've never seen it. I've known mild liberals who've gone off the deep (communist) end at liberal colleges. On a few occasions I've seen adults and young adults go conservative, but never the other way around.
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