I think we're shaped by our entire life experience. My parents were die-hard liberals. My father was a lawyer. He, I, and my older brother had intellectual discussions at every dinner. It was competitive. I think what I got from him was a reliance on logic.

When I was growing up, I was even more liberal than my parents. But when I was in college, I became much more conservative. I rebelled against the knee-jerk liberalism on campus.

I think it's largely true that a person with little money is attracted to socialism, and a person with a lot of money is attracted to free market capitalism. I think we gravitate to the political values that are most to our own advantage. I think we adopt values and then spend our lives reinforcing them.

So most of the time, if you want to know where a person's values came from, you just have to look at their situation in life.

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