After growing up in a moderately conservative household (lol at the concept today, or even in retrospect), I immediately moved left socially upon going to college 15 years ago. I have migrated very much farther left economically over the last 5 years or so, despite being solidly in what I suppose you would call upper middle class. I just don't see how significant social progress is possible without redistribution of wealth at this point. The fact that the wealthy (including myself, on a global scale) are WAY overcontributing to climate change and other forms of environmental degradation, which will clearly effect the economically disadvantaged most, who are marginally contributing to it, is a large part of why I feel the way I do. Seeing what the democratic party, not to mention the republican fuckwads, are accomplishing these days, I do not have high hopes for what our country looks like when I am an old.