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more right-wing with age?

bobhikes

Nondetermined
Premium Member
When I was 18
I was a staunch Ronald Reagan Supporter.
I Donated to the Republican party
I got invites and Christmas cards for the republican party.
After Reagan I pretty much voted Third Party
Ross Perot, Green Party and Libertarians
Obama I voted for
Then I started donating to the Libertarians
I gave out pamphlets
I put up Libertarians banners in my yard.
Biden I voted for because I am totally against the New Republican party and a third party vote may let them win. As long as the Republican party backs Donald Trump I will vote Democrat Nationally although I do not consider myself a Democrat.
 

Little Dragon

Well-Known Member
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?
Presumably they did yes, when the young could actually afford to buy their own homes, and as they used to start to earn more as they get older, they would start seeing things from a more fiscally conservative point of view, human nature. *smirk*
However that is not the case these days. In the UK, young people, are not changing their left leaning voting habits as they get older.
Much to the delight of people like me.
 

LuisDantas

Aura of atheification
Premium Member
I get the sense that the right got way more extreme since the 1980s or so.

I used to think of myself as a right-winger. I definitely don't anymore.
 

exchemist

Veteran Member
I started from being an Ayn Rand fan when I was 16, to what I am now. A socialist democrat. At this rate by the time I am 90 I will be a raging Stalinist. ;)
I voted for Margaret Thatcher in 1979 and continued to vote Conservative until Michael Howard, whom I detested, became Home Secretary. I voted Labour in 1997 when Blair came to power, but Lib Dem after the Iraq invasion. However, since Brexit and Bozo, and the takeover of the Conservative party by English nationalist idiots, I have found myself firmly in the Labour camp - now that Corbyn has swirled down the toilet of history.

I used to be comfortable thinking of myself as a One Nation, slightly pink, Tory. I do not think I have become more left wing as I have aged. But in many western democracies today, the parties on the right have become shrill, extreme, divisive, unpleasant and in some cases anti-democratic. So I find myself positioned more to the left on today's political spectrum than I was on the one from 30 years ago, because the spectrum has shifted. I suspect this may be true of a lot of people.
 

vulcanlogician

Well-Known Member
I used to be a Communist but now I'm a Social Democrat

I used to be a communist, but now I am a democratic libertarian socialist with anarcho-syndicalist tendencies. Have I become more right wing? Or has my view of what the left wing ought to be changed?
 

Eddi

Christianity, Taoism, and Humanism
Premium Member
I voted for Margaret Thatcher in 1979 and continued to vote Conservative until Michael Howard, whom I detested, became Home Secretary. I voted Labour in 1997 when Blair came to power, but Lib Dem after the Iraq invasion. However, since Brexit and Bozo, and the takeover of the Conservative party by English nationalist idiots, I have found myself firmly in the Labour camp - now that Corbyn has swirled down the toilet of history.

I used to be comfortable thinking of myself as a One Nation, slightly pink, Tory. I do not think I have become more left wing as I have aged. But in many western democracies today, the parties on the right have become shrill, extreme, divisive, unpleasant and in some cases anti-democratic. So I find myself positioned more to the left on today's political spectrum than I was on the one from 30 years ago, because the spectrum has shifted. I suspect this may be true of a lot of people.
You sound as though you are a centrist?
 

Orbit

I'm a planet
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 just as liberal now (at 59) as I was at 14. I just have more information about the issues now.
 

Little Dragon

Well-Known Member
I think I'm just as liberal now (at 59) as I was at 14. I just have more information about the issues now.
I led a sheltered childhood, wealthy parents. Wealthy family. However when I left home and mixed with people from all walks of life. I gradually become more aware of just how inequitable the system is. How nepotism and elitism not character and qualifications, grant access to top tier jobs. How the poor are denied access to justice, how they are demonized and scapegoated, and other ignoble things.
 

Orbit

I'm a planet
I led a sheltered childhood, wealthy parents. Wealthy family. However when I left home and mixed with people from all walks of life. I gradually become more aware of just how inequitable the system is. How nepotism and elitism not character and qualifications, grant access to top tier jobs. How the poor are denied access to justice, how they are demonized and scapegoated, and other ignoble things.
I'm glad that you were able to have a good childhood, without experiencing financial pressure. And yes, meritocracy is mostly a crock, and the poor get shafted in many unpleasant ways. I was just sharing a story with my Criminal Justice faculty that was about the fact that in over 40 states, indigent people who are accused of a crime are *billed* for using a public defender for their trial. And if they end up in jail or prison and a relative sends them, say $50 to help them buy food or shampoo from the overpriced prison system, it is confiscated in order to pay the bill. It blows the mind.
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
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 been finding as I get older at what a useless and pointless farce political affiliations are.
 

Little Dragon

Well-Known Member
I'm glad that you were able to have a good childhood, without experiencing financial pressure.
I didn't want for anything. Our old house had a library, a study, a billiards room (a game a bit like pool), six bedrooms (two with en suite bathrooms), a lounge, a glass conservatory, a main bathroom and a shower room, a dining room, utility rooms, a wine cellar, two toilets and about 1.5 acres of land attached, including allotments and gardens. We had gardeners, tutors, cleaners and cooks and a handyman.
I had no idea what real life was like for most people.
 

RestlessSoul

Well-Known Member
I drifted to the right in my 40s, during the Blair era in the U.K.
I basically subscribed to the “third way” concept of a compromise between capitalism and moderate social democracy. After 13 years of right wing government here, and several decades in which international oligarchs have grown exponentially in wealth and power at the expense of common people everywhere, I’m back to seeing capitalism as an evil which has to be tamed.
 
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