A long time ago a friend of mine, who had teenagers, told me that while they are teenagers, that is the stupidest your kids will ever be. Hell, I remember when I was young in the seventies. I was a diehard Democrat through and through. Republicans were evil and wanted wars, wanted to take social security away, and were for the rich and against the poor. I remember working a job for minimum wage and couldn't wait for democrats to raise the minimum wage up so that I could earn more money because those evil Republicans didn't want to raise the minimum wage.
Then, I don't know why, but one day I was just smacked in the face with a revelation and saw that the beliefs I had didn't jive with reality and that if my only goal in life was to wait for minimum wage to go up to earn more money, I would always be poor and that most of the things I had believed, just weren't true. So, I picked myself up by my bootstraps and today I own my own business and am doing far better than if I had continued the path I was going on in my early days.
I'd also have to say that the lurch left democrats have made in recent years is nothing short of total insanity. In todays world, we still have social security, democrats are the ones starting wars, and Republican policies help the little guy, not leftist policies which teach you to do nothing and just leach off the government. And, democrats are actually taking democracy away while claiming that it is Republicans who want to take democracy away. In addition, democrats say we should follow the science and yet they wish to ignore the science which defines what a woman is.