I used to ba a socialist and after reading Milton Friedman, Hayek, and more importantly Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, after going down tge BTC rabbit hole and discovering in it the principles of Austrian economics, I understand socialism is a  dead end that we should avoid at all costs. The issue of Israel is a seperate issue to me, it should be independant from our politics, it's being forced down our throats. 

 Those are good authors. I got deep into Friedman/Hayek/Mises in college. Have quite a few of those books on my bookshelf.