I was born with a Conservative spoon in my mouth.
Heh. I guess I was, too.
My Dad was a Republican -- a farmer.
He hated unions and thought you weren't entitled to anything you didn't earn yourself. For some reason, that hit home and throughout college in the seventies, the progressive baloney just didn't stick to me.
I hated campus life. Everyone was self-centered and out-of-it. I had a part-time job at a supermarket and looked forward to escaping college in the evening and be around real people with families and financial problems who were trying to deal with it.
I still think that, if you must send your child to a liberal college, a job will prove to be a pretty good inoculation against creeping progressivism.