This is a viewpoint that I can get behind and respect. Did you always hold these views or did you become a Libertarian as you got older?
Political views do change over time. You are not grandfathered in. Heck - in countries where there are more than two effective parties, you are even expected to maybe vote different parties at different elections.
Its only when you get old as stone, that you are expected to vote only the big conservative party statistically. And that might be - looking at the older generation - because it reminds you so much of the economic miracle they "were in charge producing (not really, but..
)" when they were younger.
In europe in quite a few countries, the socialist left party went from close to 50% to 12% voter base in only a few years. And they did so, because the conservative party moved so far to the left, that they had no talking points left (they never made new ones), that people cared about.
This is politics. Not - are you for the right side, and why are so many people for the wrong side.
If you should still be wondering, why so few hackers are actual conservatives, may I present you with this (not at all) historical piece, I just coincidently watched recently - that captures it:
click on Vimeo to watch it fullscreen
(Film is a callback to If... (1968) also with Malcolm McDowell and David Wood, which was an artfilm shortly before the 68 liberal revolution in britain at the time, ...
Watch it.
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