My parents are middle class turbolibs (Colbert watching, RBG autobiography reading, "Because Trump" wine glass owning turbolibs) so I was a lib growing up. When I was about 16 I decided I was a libertarian. I don't think there was a coherent reason why, I think I just wanted to be different from my parents while keeping true to the social issues I actually cared about (gay rights, racial equality, dude weed lmao, etc.). I was naive and didn't understand how economics or governance or anything worked lol.

One evening when I was 19 I stumbled across r/collapse (good then, less so post-covid), and fell down the rabbit hole of just how bad we're fucked climatewise (accelerating carbon emissions, microplastics, ocean acidification, topsoil loss, severe wildlife decline, etc.). This shattered my entire worldview and I went into a full doomer depression spiral for about a year. Most of the people talking about this stuff were leftists (e.g. the Ashes Ashes guys), and I eventually came out the other end as a communist (though still a doomer, we're really fucked doomjak )