One Degree wrote:A liberal is just a conservative who hasn’t been mugged. We have known this a long time. They typically are isolated from the realities they pretend to understand.
This happened to my older cousin, she was snobbishly arrogant and condescending to the rest of her rural family when she was in college (I was like 14 or something at this time), she was getting a B.S. is social service or something like that.
She then moved to the Atlanta Georgia region as a social-worker and after living around ghetto families and getting straight-up screwed-over by affirmative action in the workplace and seeing the racial double-standard she became a true cynic.
She ended up marrying a gator-hunting good ole boy and returning to her roots, but I do believe it was pretty traumatic at the time, she was about as optimistically liberal and viciously opposed to stereotypes as anyone I had ever met (As a young teenager I used to say things just to troll her), but once reality set in, things were different from there on out.
Kinda crazy looking back on it, no one could have predicted it.