Short version:
I used to work with a young Jewish guy that was a punk dude. He was VERY intelligent but Leftist as they come. Why? He simply grew up in it, had been indoctrinated and never heard the other side of the story. We had many deep political discussions.
I didn’t completely turn him, but he is no longer the unflinching leftist. He became, dare I say it, almost right of center. One of the things I did was compare the lyrics of many of his favorite leftist punk bands to the reality of democrat governance.
To say his eyes got wide is an understatement.
You’ve got to find one who is smart enough to think for himself and overcome early conditioning. Harder than it sounds.
That’s something that has bothered me forever; that punk in its essence is so very libertarian, but it’s followers, and even the bands themselves are a bunch of lefties. I mean you’ve got the whole movement born of the trash strike and council housing life and all that but they all railed against Thatcher as if it were all her creation and not the Labour party that had been in control for 3 decades or more. Maybe that’s why they wore chains and dog collars; they secretly feared independence...hmm...
Some day when the kids are grown up maybe I’ll write a book about it, if no one else has at that point.