September 11, 2001 changed a lot of things for a lot of people. I'm no exception.
Up until that monumental event I was only marginally political; I read the news, but hadn't yet formed any sort of cohesive ideology. If anything, I was a fairly typical college student in the South, raised to respect tradition.
And then the planes hit the towers, and my obsession with politics began.
Watching such carnage must have made me instinctively hawkish. I instantly gravitated toward conservatives like Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh. Every morning began, without exception, with a visit to the Drudge Report.
Of course, it's only healthy to seek dissenting opinions, and my liberal state-college education ensured I remained exposed to political arguments from both sides. But no matter the issue, I veered right time and time again.
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