I was not a conservative when in college, was anti-war for about a year back then.....I became very apolitical after graduation, being amongst the lefties gave me the creeps, plus I couldn't stand the anti-war crowd and its negativity. So I left the left and became non-political.
It wasn't until later that I realized how stoopid I had been in college and how wrong us anti-war types were. Later, I had a good friend who coached one of my sons who came back from the war and was literally spit on and called a baby killer when he finished his college degree.
Listening to him gave me the chills. I am haunted that our country, many people who I brushed shoulders with, did that to those fine young men.