I've gone through 'evolutions' in my world views - I was a pretty conservative teenager.
I think I'm probably more open-minded than I ever was, but I'm not without firm convictions.
And it generally has nothing to do with being 'convinced' it has to do with experiences.
By "conservative" are we referring to by the rest of the worlds standards or by Australia's because besides toilets flushing the opposite way than here, you do kind of have "backwards" parties in the sense that the "Liberal" party in Australia is the "conservative" party elsewhere.
Well it should be by the US's standards vs the rest of the world...
But yes, I was certainly much more socially and economically right leaning.