@wonkcosmo as a gen xer I can just say, good. Personally I was raised in a heavily socialist household in a socialist country. I then started moving quite to the right, peaking in my 20's, definitely branding myself a liberal.
Since then over the next couple of decades I have felt myself being pulled back to the left, and in particular the people here have given me an insight into what I must call modern socialim, with their personal stories, and if you're not yanked to the left seeing that, then you lack the ability to read.