I started off liberal, then I got a job, entered the real world and grew up....
If that's true, and many wrongly believe so, then you were never really liberal, just young.
No, I was both... I still hold what some would call classic liberal beliefs. I just got to a point where I realized that all these utopian dreams were just that, dreams. That while one can endeavor to make t hings "fair", well, t hings aren't fair, life isn't fair amnd you're much better off confronting that reality and teaching people to deal with it.
In doing so, they are much better served than teaching them to whine and moan about the unfairness of life rather than learning to succeed.