I started with leftism from the begging of my political awakening (age 10). After I fell for the post 9/11 nationalism and xenophobia I felt betrayed by the democrats then I noticed myself saying bad things about Muslims when I didn't know anything about them (age 15). After that I voted for Kerry because I was scared of bush and I thought that the democrats would get us out of this bullshit war on terrorism (age 18). Then I learned about how the good ol USA had lead countless coup's and paid death squads to kill liberals in South America. Then I learned that the Democrat hero's were murders I read the CIA documents about how John F Kennedy and Bob Kennedy were responsible for millions of innocent latin american lives, the democrats were worshiping these fathers of genocide just because they were shot? That is when I knew I would never vote or support the democrats again as a matter of fact it motivated me to do what I do today. I knew I was socialist when I was 19-20 it it hard to say exactly because it didn't happen over night. I'm glad to see you guys found socialism at an early age I cried a little when I read this because it is good to see some intelligent people are coming from the generation of MTV and FOX news. keep with it young comrades, all I can tell you is: the CP-USA is crap and the democratic socialist of america are a waste of time (both support Obama and the "lesser of 2 evils" theory.