New Research: People - DON'T - Get More Conservative as They Get Older

I used to be just mildly pink in university.

I'm now a full blown lefty/hippie/commie f**k.

And I've been collecting Social Security for two years.

Conservatism is a trait of SELFISH CHILDREN.

I find a lot of seniors become much more open minded as they age.

mom's liberal views have never changed...

I was mostly moderate until 2000, and the Bush years pushed me waaayyy to the left

Some folks get more conservative, some more liberal, some folks stay the same.

It is kinda logical that older folks are less likely to follow and pursue the latest fads which might make them appear hidebound, but that has little bearing on such things as attitudes about human rights, etc.

to post to my facebook page! Thanks for posting!

also bigotry. DAMN i've heard some nasty things from people in the last few years of their lives that they would have NEVER said prior to the mind melt.

When there was a quite conservative generation in the 65+ age group (Eisenhower's WW1 Generation).

Thirty years later I am a Social Democrat and a structural Marxist.

I must have lost the memo.

good to see this particular bit of nonsense getting a long-deserved debunking.

plays a major role. Fear and listening to the wrong media.

That was when I was 22 years old. Im now 34 and my push to the left was from making my political judgements based on facts and knowledge rather than emotional knee jerk reactions to one side of a story.

I'm afraid I may fall off the universe.

The last 30 years have caused me to go from radical liberal to regarding hard core communists as moderates/centrists.

It was Dems not getting it done when we had huge majorities in Congress and the WH that totally spun me.

I realized then, beyond all doubt, that only non-violent revolution is going save the planet from the predations of the 1%.

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I come from a strong labor family - both parents belonged to unions when I was young. I actually was a little more conservative coming out of college (Reagan years) even with the union background. After a few years in the working world, and especially when I got to the managerial level, everything my parents had said made much more sense. Now I'm even further left than they were because I know for sure what is discussed in the board room.

the older generations (the Greatest Generation in charge then) were overall more conservative than the radicals (excluding the 30s' New Dealers and Lincoln Brigade members, of course), including the Cold War Liberals (who themselves began splitting up as JFK moved away from the Cold War, Eisenhower denounced the MIC, and LBJ grew his hair out); in the 70s and 80s, many of the Boomers went conservative; 1976 saw the libertarian/business/televangelist/militarist Reagan coalition come together and start snowballing, as it would until 1984-87

all of these generational and political changes were generalized into a belief that people got conservative as they got older, or had kids, or what-have-you

I'm just not built that way.