Did you have right-wing economic beliefs as a kid?

[LoZoccolo]

I did. I was the one kid in class that got picked on the most, would get beat up after school, would be the last to get picked when they're forming teams, etcetera. But I was smart, so I always had it in my mind that eventually that would trump anything these kids would do to me at the time as it would get me financial success they could only dream of. I figured that I wasn't a bully or roughneck because I was smart, and the fact that they were ignorant and stupid would be their own downfall, and I explicitly liked the fact that they were crude and unwise - it made it easier for me to get on top. I also remember hating working-class kids, because my elementary school was split between my neighborhood and one that was kind-of poorer than mine, and it seemed like the kids from the poorer neighborhood generally gave me more trouble. My parents didn't drum these beliefs into me - they were actually liberal and used to refer to me as "conservative" (I remember they'd say that I probably wouldn't like Doonesbury because I was too conservative for it).

But this was like, when I was eleven years old and younger!

Do you have a similiar story?