Turning 43. When am I supposed to start becoming conservative?

[Deep13]

Since I was in college, patronizing conservatives have told me that I was a naive idealist and that I would become more conservative with age. I was a center-left Democrat then of the Dukakis mold. I'll be turning 43 in a few days. I'm now a Democrat because there is no viable socialist party. So when is this predicted shift to the right supposed to happen?

[WillParkinson]

1. You're getting there...

It's just that you haven't had enough brain cells die yet. Give it time. Fox News and all the rest will erode them slowly and silently until one day you, too, will be a zombie.

[Bucky]

2. You're already a conservative.

You want to conserve jobs, the Bill of Rights, and old growth forests. That's an entirely conservative agenda, ya commie.

[Crystal Clarity]

3. There's a stupid saying that goes something like this...

If you're not a liberal by age 20, you have no heart.
If you're not a conservative by age 40, you have no brain.

And it ends there. :wtf:

Therefore, I submit a 3rd and final thought...
But if you're still a conservative by age 41, you have no heart, brain, or soul.

So There!... Fixed it! :headbang:

Keep on keeping on Deep13! And Happy Birthday to you! :party:

[hippywife]

6. That's a Winston Churchill quote.

Bastard was really full of himself, he was. :eyes:

[Bucky]

7. Actually, it's not. It's often attributed to him, but Winnie denied ever coining it.

However, he did say that he wished he'd been the one to think that up.

[Roon]

4. I was more conservative when i was 18 years old

I listened to rush and voted for H bush. Coming out gay changed my politics almost overnight.

[Arugula Latte]

5. I'm 44 and get more and more liberal as time goes on.

[bobmorr1]

8. more liberal as you age

I'm 55 and more liberal than ever. I've gotten more liberal as I have grown older. I account for that with becoming more intelligent and easier going than when I was younger. I give and help others more too.

[pink-o]

25. We're the same age...

And I've been a firebrand Lib ever since I was 12 years old and realized what the hell was going on in Vietnam. And remember when you were 13 in 1968? MLK was killed, then RFK. Then we got Nixon, who promised to get us out of Vietnam, but got us into Cambodia and Laos instead. That pretty well stamped me permanently, when it came to social issues. No effin' way was I gonna ever go conservo, I didn't care how old I got or how many people told me I would "grow up".

Unfortunately, too many members of our generation did listen to the Yuppie calling in the 80s. Although I bet if they did the statistics, they would find most Boomers are still liberal.

[LaurenG]

9. Never. At least it didn't happen to me.

I've become a pain in the a** progressive, moving further and further left. :shrug:

[bikebloke]

10. In the next day or two.

It usually occurs at 3:42 am. So unless you're awake, you'll miss it. After 2 1/2 minutes you revert back into one of the good guys.;)

I think I've turned more socialist through the years.

[Odin2005]

11. That was a myth from when the WW1 generation of Eisenhower were the elders

Eisenhower's generation, often called the "Lost Generation", generally leaned Right for their entire lives. The collective political lean of a generation generally stays the same for their entire lives. The Greatest Generation always leaned Left, for example.

[zanana1]

12. That's just a myth created by conservatives! nt

[lunatica]

13. You have to start thinking of yourself as an adult first

I'm still waiting to feel that magical moment when the universe strikes me with lightning or something to tell me I'm finally an adult. I'm beginning to think it's never gonna happen. I'm 62

[Aristus]

14. I'm 8 days away from my 42nd birthday, and I still don't know.

I'm getting more and more liberal as I get older. When I was 17, I was the biggest Ronald Reagan fan on the planet (except for all those defense contractors Zombie Ronald made richer...). Mainly because I didn't know a thing about politics.

I realized that I was a leftie at heart not long after Election 1992, when I cast my very last vote for a Republican. I started looking around at all the people who had also voted for George Sr., and found them distasteful at best and repulsive at worst.

I also kind of stumbled into the cause of gay rights, despite being straight as an arrow. The Repukes were (and are) so virulently anti-gay, that I realized which side of the political spectrum I belonged.

During sElection 2000, I became an out, loud, and proud liberal. Still am. And will always be.

Liberal till I DIE!!! B-)

[rrneck]

15. Too late.

Your age is already greater than the maximum IQ.

[tigereye]

16. I think some folks become a bit more "realistic" whatever that may mean

when you have kids to care for, career, house, etc. but I don't think of myself in my early 50s as conservative. I was always kind of a moderate lefty, though, arguing with my more radical pals who loved how the IRA was blowing people up. (and I'm Irish!)


I think I just don't like violence, no matter who's doing it.

[applegrove]

17. The conservatives are now much more selfish than they used to be. They don't just want

things to stay the same they want to go back to the 19th century as regulations and taxation go. I imagine this will be the first generation where that doesn't happen. They have gone too far to the right.

[Dappleganger]

18. 46 and becoming more liberal each year.

[AwakeAtLast]

32. I'm 40, and me, too!

:hi:

Of course I come from Republican stock - but not wingnuts thanks goodness!

My mother even realizes that Faux News isn't the one to watch! Her friends on the other hand....... :crazy:

[stray cat]

19. Smarter yes maybe no more conservative but perhaps aware of nuances?

[mike_c]

20. I'm 55-- I've become more liberal as I've grown older...

...and I'm continuing to do so.

[gmoney]

21. I think it depends if you've made any money or not...

[Deep13]

27. I'm pretty well heeled, actually. nt

[begin_within]

22. When you own land

That's the key turning point. Then you become part of THEM.

[Deep13]

28. I own land and it has D. election signs on it.

:7

[old mark]

23. Right - they think conservatives are smarter or more wise than liberals, but

how many smart and wise teabaggers do you see running around with their misspelled signs and idiotic ideas?

It's another RW lie that they have come to believe-but you KNOW it's not true, and at 63 so do I.


mark

[jobycom]

24. I've become more conservative as I get older.

I used to have more tolerance for the stupidity of Conservatives, but I grow more conservative in my Liberalism every year, in that I no longer keep an open mind about Conservative ideology and no longer want to see them treated fairly or equally. They are just wrong, and only a small, greedy, selfish mind could agree with them, and I have less tolerance for those now than I did 20 years ago, having never seen their "ideology" once lead to anything but suffering for everyone.

[Deep13]

29. Okay, now I understand.

My bullshit tolerance has also grown pretty thin.

[MiddleFingerMom]

26. If Obama's such a socialist...

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[gmoney]

30. They fed it to your pony.

[billyclem]

31. When first eligible, I voted for George,

McGovern that is. I am now 62 and so far I see no signs of creeping conservatism. Some of my friends have changed over the years to become very conservative; but, the strange thing seems to be that they were the most vocal/radical in our youth. Go figure, maybe Eric Hoffer was on to something in "The True Believer".

[MrMickeysMom]

33. Some people I've talked to liked to tout this...

“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain!"

Of course, those people never seemed to have met a history book that didn't have crib notes, and when stretched beyond conventional wisdom, they watch Fox. They generally took little more than economics and math, with absolutely no interest in reading contemporary history after traditional humanity courses. They went into MBA programs and did little with that dime-a-dozen designation (apologies to those who did utilize that degree).

Aren't you thankful that you understand heart and brains are not mutually exclusive traits?