I may not be normal, but I am still as rabidly socialist at 69 as I was at 15. If I am going to start leaning to the right I'd better get on with it, I'll be old soon.
No, like Grace, I've moved farther left the more I learn about the world and its history.
Most certainly. I was a Marxist in my teens. Education and life experiences completely turned that around. I am now a Conservative with a capital C!
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”
Yes. As we get older our circumstances and lifestyles change as does the rest of the world. It’s only natural our political preferences might change also.
When I spent more of my time on the campaigning and striking side of policy making during University people always told me my views would change once I left varsity and had to start paying tax.
I’ve been paying tax for a long time now and I still have the same strongly communist views. Of course I’m hardly old but I don’t see my views changing, will have to follow up in about twenty years.
"A dirty book is rarely dusty"
With age and experience, with travel and education. with these things to guide me, I have become even more liberal with age.
I've shifted slightly to the left, particularly on health care and gun control. Overall I am a very boring moderate Democrat, with some libertarian leanings.
I would say so. When I was a teenager and in my early 20's, I really didn't know much about what was going on, but supported whoever sounded best on paper.
Now I'm a democratic socialist who wants corporate money and billionaires'special interests out of politics.
Yes, they have changed as I've gotten older and gotten into business. I have always been pretty much in the center though so its a very slight shift. I never could understand or go along with the far extremes of right or left. I feel like people that far left or right think their way is the only way and the other side can never be right on anything. I believe what I believe but I like to think I am open minded enough to see the other side and be able to compromise in order to get things done for the greater good.
I'm pretty much a moderate and see both side. However, I keep from crossing yellow lines. I stick with facts (news) and not opinions.
I had at one time expected people would lean more conservative with age but I have moved even further to the left, as have all of my friends. The death penalty is a horrid and inhumane practice, money isn't everything, we need to be more compassionate and less narcissistic, we need to take care of our planet and our people, and religion has absolutely no place in politics or government. My sister has moved further right and it breaks my heart. It's difficult for us to even have a conversation (although she regrets voting for Trump - so there's that, yet she still blames Obama for everything -- but that's a whole other phenomenon to explore someday - WTF, people?).
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.”
― Carl Sagan
Mine haven't changed too much really, but being removed from grassroots politics for ten years and have a toddler daughter during those years, I'm beginning to wonder should I pay attention at all. I noticed with myself I've grown indifferent.
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I was probably more left-wing in my youth, now kind of centre-left with a streak of fiscal conservatism. I do lean very left on social issues, so very supportive of working with the indigenous nations to solve their issues, very pro-LBGTQ (but I'm bi so I guess that's expected), very much in favour of actions to reduce carbon emissions and other environmental problems. Where I maybe lean more to the centre is in how to pay for it. I still want to see government deficits and debts kept minimal, I still want a rational tax policy that is used to fund programs, not reward and punish people for their social class or income.
As I have aged, my political views have become much more liberal. After graduating from college, the history and economics I studied met the real world. Things are not as simple as my conservative acquaintances seem to think. I could write a litany of why that is true, but not here.
No, I have always been a classic liberal from Hill and Smith to Von Mises and Hayek - a true social and economic liberal.
And I eat 21st Century 'liberals' for breakfast because they are 21st century ban-happy authoritarian fascists and too stupid to realise it.
Yes.
I care less and less every second. Once you come to the realization that politics and government are just the same windowless van, regardless of what hood ornament you voted for... you tend to stop caring and wasting energy on it.
