I’ve heard this multiple times and have very rarely seen it apply. Usually if they’re conservative in their later years, they always were. It just wasn’t as prevalent or talked about. I’ve been a lefty since I was a kid and have not deviated at all.

It’s like people that once supported Bernie now voting for Trump (they’re a strange anomaly but they exist). They were never actually liberal. They either voted entirely on vibes and feels, or they got swept up in the wave of others around them. Then eventually their true self surfaces.

[–] TassieTosser@aussie.zone 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

People grow more conservative when they have something to conserve. Also because they're wanker and weren't raised right.

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 10 points 1 day ago

I find that they’re usually fixated on materialistic things. They get a little money and it goes to their head.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Also the world moves towards progressiveness by definition so people who still have the same views with 80 as they did with 20 are probably more conservative (in the traditional sense of the word) relative to the rest of the world.