Yes, that's right. Imagine pleading allegiance to the flag of Walmart every morning in school...that's the same thing we grew up doing in my day. I was statist and believed in public education and elections (etc., ad infinitum) until I was in my late forties 😬

I spent my entire young life identifying as a DFL-er (unique to MN) and then my thirties as a conservative, and from 2011 until 2017 I had no idea what I was, just wanted no part of it. I guess that was when I found libertarian twitter, and lots of those folks started to annoy the crap out of me, and that pipeline to anarchism (for me) is short unless you're [redacted].