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 @jeffowski People don't get more conservative as they age, they get more conservative as they become wealthier.  Mmm... Not always. I'm way, way more liberal than I was as a penniless young adult. Part of that is because society in general has become more liberal during my lifetime, and part is because I fell in with good people. If I'd been groomed by right-wingers when I was young and ignorant, the consequences don't bear thinking about. @LordCaramac @jeffowski sort of, except it's not about individual people's views changing, it's that poor people die younger so rich conservatives are more likely to get to live to be old  @LordCaramac @jeffowski I grew up somewhat poor, I am comfortably middle class now, and I think the rich should be tried for crimes against humanity. @jeffowski these are two independent statements. There is a more conservative approach/mentality. That's fine.  @jeffowski More views from Rebecca Mix please; can you please get her to migrate to Mastodon? @jeffowski it kind of got the older people off the hook. "It's a natural process as you become older and wiser" sounds much better than "right wing policies suit me now so I'm voting for them even though I benefited from more left wing ones in my youth"  I want to agree, but oligarchs are stringy, dry and smell off. Tax them robustly, enthusiastically, urgently, with vigor, there's the sauce. Eisenhower taxed at 90% on some, asked by a business paper why a Republican continued Roosevelt's taxes, Ike answered, "I tax lazy money." Left middle and right voters ALL SUPPORT taxing Wealth, taxing ludicrous salaries, its popular. Lower everyone eles. @kevinrns@mstdn.social @jeffowski@mastodon.world  @jeffowski You know though I think it does seem to happen? I've watched my parents turn so hard right that they now repeat GOP propaganda verbatim and don't even know they're doing it. I had one person who was a friend for something like 10 years become so far right I couldn't stand listening to them hate every single thing any Democrat ever does anymore and just had to leave. Another friend took a similar turn, even voting for trump instead of against Democrats in this most recent election. @jeffowski Like obviously it depends on a lot of factors of which age is probably not actually one, but there does seem to be a strange tendency among many that way. These people I mentioned were all once a long time ago incredibly open. Now they are not just closed but dragged a dresser against the door and boarded up the windows. |
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