more right-wing with age?

[Eddi]

As you've grown older have you become more right-wing?

It is often said that this is what usually happens but I'm not actually sure it does...

However, I most certainly have

I used to be a Communist but now I'm a Social Democrat

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that people become less left-wing as they grow older?

 

[ChristineM]

As you've grown older have you become more right-wing?

It is often said that this is what usually happens but I'm not actually sure it does...

However, I most certainly have

I used to be a Communist but now I'm a Social Democrat

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that people become less left-wing as they grow older?

Im pretty much the same as I've been since i started thinking politics. Every now and again I do the political compass, I've moved very little from around the middle of the bottom left square.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

As you've grown older have you become more right-wing?

It is often said that this is what usually happens but I'm not actually sure it does...

For many, there is a difference between becoming more right-wing and more conservative.

 

[Eddi]

For many, there is a difference between becoming more right-wing and more conservative.

Yes, I think I agree with that

 

[Yerda]

A lot of people seem to grow out of being left for-the-sake-of-it. Don't need to take a position because other left wing people take it, or some dead guy wrote about it.

I think many people would see me as extreme left, but I think a lot of the things I want are pretty reasonable, common sense even. I have changed in how I view conservatives, in so far as I think that we need them to have a society that can explore all options. Though finding a conservative who isn't just a racist halfwit or a radical neoliberal is quite rare.

 

[Secret Chief]

As you've grown older have you become more right-wing?

It is often said that this is what usually happens but I'm not actually sure it does...

However, I most certainly have

I used to be a Communist but now I'm a Social Democrat

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that people become less left-wing as they grow older?

Left at 18.
Further left at 63.

 

[anna.]

As you've grown older have you become more right-wing?

It is often said that this is what usually happens but I'm not actually sure it does...

However, I most certainly have

I used to be a Communist but now I'm a Social Democrat

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that people become less left-wing as they grow older?

Nope. Started out right-wing, now I'm somewhere left of center and still heading west, if you're looking at the political compass.

 

[1137]

As you've grown older have you become more right-wing?

It is often said that this is what usually happens but I'm not actually sure it does...

However, I most certainly have

I used to be a Communist but now I'm a Social Democrat

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that people become less left-wing as they grow older?

I think I'm where I always was, it's the party/"left" that changed.

 

[Revoltingest]

As you've grown older have you become more right-wing?

It is often said that this is what usually happens but I'm not actually sure it does...

However, I most certainly have

I used to be a Communist but now I'm a Social Democrat

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that people become less left-wing as they grow older?

"Right wing" has multiple definitions.
Which do you use?

 

[Eddi]

"Right wing" has multiple definitions.
Which do you use?

More conservative than progressive on social and moral issues

More attached to the political and economic status quo

That sort of thing

 

[SalixIncendium]

As you've grown older have you become more right-wing?

My political views haven't changed as I've gotten older. Only the degree of attachment to them.

 

[Revoltingest]

More conservative than progressive on social and moral issues

More attached to the political and economic status quo

That sort of thing

No change here.

 

[The Hammer]

As you've grown older have you become more right-wing?

It is often said that this is what usually happens but I'm not actually sure it does...

However, I most certainly have

I used to be a Communist but now I'm a Social Democrat

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that people become less left-wing as they grow older?

It's really not accurate.

Seems more like survivorship bias imo

 

[The Hammer]

Seniors Are More Conservative Because the Poor Don't Survive to Become Seniors

 

[Shadow Wolf]

As you've grown older have you become more right-wing?

It is often said that this is what usually happens but I'm not actually sure it does...

However, I most certainly have

I used to be a Communist but now I'm a Social Democrat

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that people become less left-wing as they grow older?

For me, no. I was RW and Conservative when I was younger, but I've gone further and further Left as the years go on.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Seniors Are More Conservative Because the Poor Don't Survive to Become Seniors

I'm not sure exactly how true that is as I've known lots of poor seniors.

 

[The Hammer]

I'm not sure exactly how true that is as I've known lots of poor seniors.

Yes, but we're they always poor or disadvantaged, or just later on in life.

 

[Vinayaka]

As you've grown older have you become more right-wing?

It is often said that this is what usually happens but I'm not actually sure it does...

However, I most certainly have

I used to be a Communist but now I'm a Social Democrat

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that people become less left-wing as they grow older?

If anything, I've shifted farther to the left.

 

[The Hammer]

I've been left wing or progressive since I was a wee lad.

Same as always socially liberal, but a bit more fiscally conservative. (Mainly stop paying. The ****ing DoD so much).

 

[Sand Dancer]

Probably before Christianity, I was moderate but not sure as I never assessed it. As a Christian, I went from very conservative to moderate, then after Christianity, I was fairly liberal. Recently I am back to moderate.