You're not alone. Most people I know who think they're liberal actually end up supporting a majority of conservative positions/policies/values.
Somewhere along the line between the teachers and the media a ton of people were convinced or taught to believe "Conservatives Bad, Liberals Good" and it's hard to break that paradigm.
My brother, for instance, let his wife make the choice about where to live in Sacramento and they bought a nice new home in a shitty part of town. Because that's what
enlightened liberals do, right? Showing solidarity with the ghetto by living in a lily white enclave within the ghetto, right? They had the best of intentions,
what could possibly go wrong?
They had a home invasion while they were home is what went wrong. The two of them were brutalized and robbed and their useless dog ran away. The police took three hours to show up after my brother called them.
Afterwards my venomously anti-gun brother calls me for advice on what kind of shotgun to buy for home defense.
I had him go buy a stainless steel Mossberg 500 and had him load it out with .00 buck.
And he's still anti-gun.
But wait! There's more!
As a good liberal he's hated private property rights all while hypocritically owning a nice home.
So one day he comes home and about half of his front yard has been dug out and taken for a new sidewalk and a traffic light. He had no notice and no offer of compensation. Just a hearty
Fuck You! from the Democrat regime he voted for. His sprinkler system was destroyed, a brick retaining wall was destroyed, a tree was cut down and removed, and again - no warning, no eminent domain proceeding, nothing. And no, there was no easement for the city to seize anything.
He eventually had to hire a lawyer to get compensation for the 100% illegal seizure of his property.
And then he moved to Oregon where he kept voting Democrat.
Now the Democrats in his new city have assessed him $80,000 for the sewer main that they ran through his yard that he is not allowed to hook into.
I laughed at him in November 2023 when he told me about this. I said, "You fled California because the Democrats fucked you over and you kept voting for these people and they fucked you over again! Why did you expect them to act any differently in Oregon than they did in California?"
We haven't spoken since.
The red line in the picture below outlines what was taken from him without warning or compensation:
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The point is that liberals often end up on the receiving end of liberalism. I hope this never happens to you.