What I find funny about right wingers trying to say that people will become more right-leaning as they get older is that the quote that they’re citing seems to point to the idea that the left-wing person’s ideas aren’t going to change and that they’ll continue to hold the same beliefs.
“It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.”
Seems to imply that it means you’ll get stuck in your ways and continue to hold left-leaning views, the exact opposite of what the boomers are saying, it’s based on an older version of the word conservative, meaning to keep things as they are. Ironic that they’re citing it as a reason for why they think people will become like them when it seems to point to the opposite, that they’ll stay the same and continue to hold left-wing views.
Of coarse the idea that someone will stay the same or change in some predictable way is a generalization, people grow and change in different ways depending on the individual, same applies for getting stuck in said ways.
It’s not that young progressives will change their views as they age, their views will stay roughly the same, it’s just that newer more progressive ideas will come from the next generation.
Ideals that seem conservative by today’s standards were once radically progressive at one stage.
What I find funny about right wingers trying to say that people will become more right-leaning as they get older is that the quote that they’re citing seems to point to the idea that the left-wing person’s ideas aren’t going to change and that they’ll continue to hold the same beliefs.
“It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.”
Seems to imply that it means you’ll get stuck in your ways and continue to hold left-leaning views, the exact opposite of what the boomers are saying, it’s based on an older version of the word conservative, meaning to keep things as they are. Ironic that they’re citing it as a reason for why they think people will become like them when it seems to point to the opposite, that they’ll stay the same and continue to hold left-wing views.
Of coarse the idea that someone will stay the same or change in some predictable way is a generalization, people grow and change in different ways depending on the individual, same applies for getting stuck in said ways.
It’s not that young progressives will change their views as they age, their views will stay roughly the same, it’s just that newer more progressive ideas will come from the next generation.
Ideals that seem conservative by today’s standards were once radically progressive at one stage.