Inspired by a discussion at Tim Blair's site, the Shotgun contributors are laying bare their souls and confessing to their leftist youth.
I didn't have a leftist youth. Though, when I was 12, I had a friend who had to repeat grade 6, and I remember announcing that exams weren't a good way to evaluate learning because failing made kids feel so badly and separated them from classmates.
Then I got distracted because school was out and I had an impatient .22 and 40 acres of gopher town whistling my name.
I was a leftist up until I got my first decent paycheque and discovered that half of it was missing...
I had a brief fling with the "peace movement" in the early '80's. The Soviet downing of Flight 007 pretty much put the kibosh on that particular misguided sentiment.