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[–] Decompose -1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

OK, teenager.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I don't believe this is going to be the case currently... the trend towards conservative was a fiscal phenomenon, as young kids who didn't have a lot of money and wanted a welfare state grew up and became financially independent, they wanted to keep what they were working to get. This would cause a self centric migration from trending democrat to trending republican.

That isn't how the partisan tribes currently work... They've become more of a "morality" enterprise, on both sides.

The choice is now if you think it's appropriate to ban huck finn and Tom Sawyer for the n word, or ban homosexual references. It's a question of do we spend taxes on blacks and the poor, or do we spend it on cluster bombs for Ukraine.

I don't think people will evolve from one side to the other the way boomers did. I think they're evolving farther from center, on both sides.

I don't like book bans period. I don't like the budget growing exponentially period. I don't like that 99% of the population increasingly wants the other half to be completely discounted... I'm essentially evolving towards not liking anybody at all.

I don't think "liberals" are going to become more "conservative" as they age, because that scale is divorced from party politics. Liberal is no longer a democrat trait, and conservative isn't purely republican. Both have adopted the entire con/lib scale in their own way. Democrats have conservative values, republicans have liberal values (the latter to a far greater degree, but I don't think it matters tbh). Just depends on what issue you're talking about.

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[+] [email protected] -8 points 1 year ago

I have become more conservative in my 30s.

Part of that is because it's difficult to keep getting worked up about social movements. About 20 years ago I was a vehement proponent of gay rights. Now my gay friends are married and I find myself indifferent to whatever new cause kids these days are talking about. I mean, I don't oppose it but I don't feel like it's my fight. (The big exception here is abortion, which will apparently be a fight forever.)

But the major cause of my conservatism is the realization that the first world in 2023 is the best place and time to ever live for almost everyone and that all this great stuff is built on a fragile foundation.

I used to focus on everything wrong with society and so I thought I saw the need for sudden, major change. Since then I've broadened my perspective so that I can see how much our society does do well, how much worse things can be, and how easy it is to make things much worse when trying to make them better. IMO the 20th century is proof that revolutionary change is generally a terrible idea even if the status quo is already awful - in that context, only a lunatic would want revolutionary change in a society that is already the richest and most free that has ever existed.

So now I call myself a lowercase-c conservative. I don't vote Republican because they're willing to break the system rather than concede anything to the other guys, and breaking the system is exactly what I want to avoid. I end up voting for moderate Democrats.

(I used to live somewhere where libertarians could get elected to local and state offices and that made things more interesting, but I'm in a solid-blue area now so the Democratic primaries are the only elections that matter.)

[+] muhyb -8 points 1 year ago

Kinda true though, I'm conservative on my terms.

[+] [email protected] -13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

In my 30s now. Def more conservative. Paying more than $10k in property taxes that go towards schools where the children that I don’t have go to.

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