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That’s as conservative as it gets
I’m in my early 40s, and I’m more of a leftist today than I was when I was 18.
This is the truth. I didn’t have the education to articulate how I could tell that the world was fucked up when I was eighteen. Now I do, and I’m fucking furious at how dumb, hurtful, and hateful this world is. It doesn’t have to be this way and never did.
Amen.
I thought there might be some truth to it as a kid. As a 40-something, I realize it was just selfish dicks trying to rationalize their own shitty “fuck you, I got mine” worldview as maturity somehow.
Same in my late 40s…
We’re incapable of mounting a defence of our objectively moronic positions, so we’ll just smugly insist you’ll understand when you grow up.
Brought to you by the entitled cunts that robbed the global economy and destroyed the environment, dooming the entire species.
We’re incapable of… (E:) mounting a defence of our objectively moronic positions, so we’ll just smugly insist you’ll understand when you grow up.
Words said by the utterly deranged
EDIT: Clearly my lack of willingness to type out the full quote left the wrong message, I am agreeing with the comment I am replying to.
AFAIK turning conservative in your 30’s only happens when you own property, and don’t fully understand how you made it.
I own a property and don’t fully understand how I made it but I’m not conservative. Fake it till you make it baby.
Also I’m aware generalisations always have anomalies, maybe I’m an anomaly.
Helps if you grew up with a low but consistent daily dose of lead.
As I’ve gotten older, conservatism has gone from “opinions I don’t share” with to “opinions I vehemently oppose”.
Conservatives have offered NOTHING of value during my lifetime. It’s all hate and fear mongering and pulling up ladders.
I have no interest in any of that.
I have a feeling whoever came up with that catchy saying was always a conservative douche and was just trying to make himself feel better about it.
As others have pointed out, the likely cause is that politics doesn’t change with age, it changes with one’s investment in the status quo. The most likely reason that this effect is breaking down is because most people born after Reagan’s presidency were never given any means to become invested in this system. If you’ve got no assets and lots of debt, fearmongering that immigrants are coming to take your job or wealth doesn’t work.
I think a lot of it shook out of the hippie movement, where some people were just self serving narcissists that wanted to do drugs, have sex, and didn’t want fight in a war. Then when they got families and jobs they didn’t want government “stealing” their money to help other people, and so they “became” conservatives.
So they just assume narcissistic motivation applies to everyone.
Yeah, when boomers were getting into their thirties, the free-loving sixties were being replaced by the threat of AIDs and nuclear war. I guess I can get why those things might make people “conservative”. Not that that word means what it meant then anymore.
“You’ll get more conservative when you start paying taxes.”
I have rubbed a bunch of faces in this one as well.
That’s even dumber. You’re paying taxes either way, the difference is what you’re paying for with them. I’d rather them go towards healthcare than corporate bailouts and military contractors.
bernie lived so long that turned around the globe and now he’s a leftist
Reposted in 3 hours, job well done
I apologize, I thought I crossposted it to another meme group. I was going to argue with you, but it looks like this one’s on me. Should I delete it?
Fuck it. It makes us reddit refugees feel at home.
Which band/album is this from? Looks vaguely like Heilung.
I mean, that’s arguably incredibly conservative. “The old ways” and all that.
I don’t hate proto-conservativism
I swing both ways depending on the wind
I started voting conservative at 18, because my parents did and I didn’t know who to vote for (we have compulsory voting in my country). Swapped to the other side late 20s and now mid 30s I can’t see it changing anytime soon.
I used to be more liberal until covid happened. “Rules for thee but not for me!”
