Here is something I'd like to throw out there, just based on my own experiences. I am ambidextrous. It is actually quite beneficial when used in my capacity as an artist. Depending on the medium I'm using, and what I'm trying to achieve, I switch hands. I never was cognizant of it until it was pointed out by a professor in college. I was also of a more left leaning bent, then, though not an indoctrinated democrat. Never held with social systems designed to keep people impoverished in perpetuity.

But the more of the world I examined and experienced, the more it showed my rational and moral approach to life was diametrically opposed to what was spouted by the left. My mom was also a staunch democrat, but I think that came from her generation. She was a member of NOW. She worked on Capitol Hill for years, and that was what finally radically altered how she viewed both parties. She was in the court reporter/transcriber office on the Hill. When she died 10 1/2 years ago, she was quite the republican!

After that long winded explanation, maybe my ambidexterity allowed for my own views to be rational and thought out, rather that reactionary? I would love to explore this a bit more myself.