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Yeah i come from a very left leaning family too (not quite communist though). I used to have that Rage against the machine mentality when i was real young. I think the major turning point for me was when i turned 15 and saw my first paycheck and saw how much went to taxes. I started thinking more clearly from that point on.

"when I turned 15 and saw my first paycheck"

At 18 I joined the Army but never thought that I'd be sent to Vietnam. At age 19 years and 2 months I landed in country. I witnessed the Viet Cong massacres and atrocities and the press never mentioned them.

My job after about 6 months was transporting Viet Cong prisoners to interrogation from the prison. Each prisoner traveled with a biography and it was clear very few had any ideology they were forced into serving the Viet Cong at gun point. Each one had a story of incredible horror the VC did in the name of communism and all stories were unbelievable.

I saw the difference between the US and the communist and decided to study and found that this is how the left works as was proved years latter in Cambodia.