I got older and richer, and I’m still just as socialist as I was then. Perhaps moreso, even.
I think the idea is that they have more wealth, and are terrified of losing that wealth. It comes down to greed and fear of change, rather than the actual amount of wealth itself.
I mean… they were right… i am more conservative as i got older. I now put more money in my 401k. I save more. I eat at home more.
However, i still think other races and sexual preferences are human, and billionaires dont need to exist. Social welfare is still a good thing and probably more important than ever.
I did buy a gun though. Target shooting is fun. But, we need a hell of alot more gun control than there is now. If anything, my experience buying a gun made me more scared due to how easy it was.
Yes but there is more to it. Formally progressive ideas (like mixed race marriage) are no-brainers today while today’s progressive ideas (like same sex marriage) were beyond the scope for the moderate left back than. So you can keep your opinions and still move to the right while the left adopts new ideas.
But it was. Yeah, it’s more likely to happen to a country that’s only been more-or-less free for about 15 years, but hardly impossible in older democracies.
They thought they got more conservative as they got older, turns out they just got more conservative as they got richer.
I got older and richer, and I’m still just as socialist as I was then. Perhaps moreso, even.
I think the idea is that they have more wealth, and are terrified of losing that wealth. It comes down to greed and fear of change, rather than the actual amount of wealth itself.
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I mean… they were right… i am more conservative as i got older. I now put more money in my 401k. I save more. I eat at home more.
However, i still think other races and sexual preferences are human, and billionaires dont need to exist. Social welfare is still a good thing and probably more important than ever.
I did buy a gun though. Target shooting is fun. But, we need a hell of alot more gun control than there is now. If anything, my experience buying a gun made me more scared due to how easy it was.
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Political conservatism is distinctly NOT about IRL conservatism.
What they conserve is the “social order”. They want to preserve the social stratification, not forests.
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As the saying goes, it’s hard to be a capitalist without the capital.
Yes but there is more to it. Formally progressive ideas (like mixed race marriage) are no-brainers today while today’s progressive ideas (like same sex marriage) were beyond the scope for the moderate left back than. So you can keep your opinions and still move to the right while the left adopts new ideas.
I mean, you say that, but…
I have seen alot but that comes as a shock to me
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Countries don’t always stay free, though. Look at Hong Kong, Russia and Hungary.
Russia wasn’t free for very long.
But it was. Yeah, it’s more likely to happen to a country that’s only been more-or-less free for about 15 years, but hardly impossible in older democracies.