User blog comment:1dra7/Republican or Democrat?/@comment-1221823-20121016030023/@comment-1874924-20121016040409

Both the liberalism and the mimicry are typical for kids your age. The general tendency is for people to become more conservative as they age, due mainly to improved understanding of the difference between theory and practice, and of the related Law of Unintended Consequences. There's a political adage that takes various forms and has been attributed to various sources, but it runs along the lines of, "a 25-year-old conservative has no heart, and a 35-year-old liberal has no brain."