Actually I feel kinda sad that you have this perspective at this age. I was an idealistic semi-leftist trying to fix the world at 20. The thing that changed me politically over time was that I was a results oriented engineering type person who made final judgements based on experimental data. I finally observed that all the social engineering made things worse for the downtrodden. And that the capitalist system even though it sucks is the best system we've got. it eventually gets the job done and it conforms most closely to real human behaviour. The fact that welfare, HEW and the DOE made the situations far WORSE after years and many HUNDREDS of billions of dollars and years was not lost on me. Of course these piss poor results are lost on the ideologically orieted true believers.