The other comment explained how my beliefs changed. This comment will explain why.

As a young lad, I was surrounded by many people who were Libertarians, people like teachers and friends whom I looked up to and had a big impact on me. Also, Libertarianism was the first political ideology I ever got into and thus I felt good to be part of a movement which I legitimately believed was the truth and would change the world for good. I am not sure what the phenomenon is called, but many people, especially younger ones, tend to have a bias for fringe movements/interests (things like music genres, internet communities, and politics) and view the masses either as misguided, gullible (wake up sheeple!), poor tastes, dumb, or any combination of the aforementioned and in turn view themselves as enlightened or having access to some esoteric knowledge/band; people like to feel special (especially young impressionable minds like my own). It also helps if it's stigmatized since then they develop a persecution complex which only strengthens their beliefs (they are against us because they want to stomp out the truth!). I, as well as many others, liked to latch on to identities which we use to define our selves and make us feel that we are part of something greater than ourselves (I for one used to think this way, "I must show the world the truth, if only they knew the things I knew, if only they knew Libertarianism was the way!").

Also, because Libertarianism was the first one I was immersed in, I had a Libertarian bias whenever I received information about other movements and if they said something that entirely contradicts what I was taught, I simply assumed they were wrong. Libertarianism, just like every other political or religious ideology, tends to have a "the one true way" attitude. They usually tend to throw a response for every criticism or dissent that people have about them and usually have lengthy blog posts or podcasts explaining in detail why people are wrong and they are right. Also, in my high school years, a used to immerse myself in a lot of Libertarian channels, podcasts, books, etc.

However, as time went on, I started to question things some more. I started doubting my politics and religion and became interested in freethought and skepticism. As I started to question things and had a lot of debates on the internet, I started to notice that a lot of the criticism against my political movement and religion (Pentecostal Christianity) actually raised extremely good points and I found myself having a really hard time arguing against them. Now of course in any ideology with devout followers, there existed a response for everything, for every time that the ideology failed or predicted something incorrectly, for every gaping hole that existed... but I found a lot of them to be really unsatisfying, required some mental gymnastics, involved untested hypothetical scenarios, and most importantly, required a lot of faith. As a skeptic, I was supposed to make statements based off the evidence and reasoning, and yet I felt that a lot of people in my political/religious movements seemed to already have made their conclusion and were simply looking for evidence to support it -- in essence doing it backwards. Also, the factionalism got to me more than anything. If the truth was so clear, why was there so much disagreement on every single small thing, it's like every person had their own version of the absolute truth. Every-time something doesn't go as predicted, one faction blames another for doing it wrong. I slowly started to lose my faith, first religiously, then politically. Today, I don't tend to avoid identifying with any one label since I view each ideology as having some truth to them and some things that are simply incorrect. Some people get mad when I don't accept the whole package (you're not a true Republican/socialist/liberal/etc.) which is why I tend to avoid the label to begin with. Each one of my opinions is made on a case by case basis where I choose whatever makes the most sense, whether or not they agree with any one political movement, or whether they don't really fit in any. I also try to avoid faith and untested hypothesis as much as possible.