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Why do so many young people consider themselves liberals, to only then become more and more conservative as they get older?
That's such a vague hypothesis. Liberal or conservative means different things to different people. I think if you think the same way you do when your 20 as you do when your 50, then you haven't experienced enough things or contemplated on the world around you.
When you are younger you tend to be more idealistic.
As you tend to leave college and the world of academics, and you enter the work world, get married, and have mortgage responsibilites more practical considerations come into effect. You become a little more concerned about paying the bills and securing the future-----the glowing ideals that you used to have seem to vaporize.
I think a lot of us still hang on to some hope-----some vestiges of moderate or independent thought and action.
It is just the natural order or practicality and realism, that a lot of us have to ditch a lot of the maverick or feistiness that we used to possess-----the clock ticks on.
In the political sense, I started out conservative and then went liberal. Nowadays I feel like I'm in the middle. I can't stand the tea party or the progressive caucus.
It's an old saying, no one's certain just who said it first: If you're not a little liberal when you're young, you have no heart. If you're not a little conservative when you're older, you have no head.
Why do so many young people consider themselves liberals, to only then become more and more conservative as they get older?
I'm totally the opposite. I was very conservative when I was in high school and college and now that I'm over 60, I've become very liberal.... I find myself agreeing with Senator Bernie Sanders more and more.
I grew very disallusioned with the free market is the answer for most everything argument.
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