What has influenced you to your current position in politics.

[moorobot]

My story is essentially the opposite of yours. I became the left-winger that you see now as opposed to the unreflective moderate that I was as a youngster, in part, because I had a lot of right-wing instructors whose ideas, theories and principles struck me as wrong. Attempts to persuade me that libertarianism or "religious rightism" had the opposite of the intended effect. In fact, if I had to identify one point as 'the turning point', it would have been the course I took in microeconomics (with a clear right winger, even for an economist). What pushed you to the right pushed me to the left.