Interesting to me to see this talked about. I have observed in myself over the years becoming more left leaning, 20 years ago I considered myself maybe just left of center. Now with more real world observations and experiences I am much further over to the left side.

Always wondered why people "traditionally" moved right as they aged, since it has been the opposite of me. I guess many people take something different out of their life experiences, I don't know. Interestingly as well, I think my parents (born in the early 50s) may have changed similar to me, but that could just be a difference in my own perception. I think they have always been somewhat left leaning despite being fairly religious, but probably 10 or more years ago they stopped attending church. I don't think they claim much to any religion these days, despite my father having been a preacher for like 25 years.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Always wondered why people “traditionally” moved right as they aged

I don't believe it has ever been seriously suggested (by serious researchers) that there's a link directly between age and conservatism. Rather, there are links between conservatism and various things that tend to be more common with age. Marriage, home ownership, higher wealth, etc. So it's unsurprising that a generation where that is happening much less would be the one where the correlation with age disappears.

[–] willard@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah I always thought that way just based on observation only. Your way of looking at it does make sense, I hadn't considered it that way.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

Authoritarianism will do that to a motherfucker

[–] DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago

I'm the same amount left, but more and more disillusioned by left wing parties. They gave a lot of talking points but no solid plans on what to do if they got power.

The greens make great headlines, but I don't think they're ready to run a pub raffle, let alone the country.

[–] velindora@lemmy.cafe -5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, they say if you go left far enough you wrap back around.

[–] c10l@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If by they you mean proponents of the horseshoe political theory, yes.

[–] eureka@aussie.zone 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And, in case anyone doesn't already know, the left-right model of politics and all its variants (political compass, horseshoe, etc.) are not useful models for analysing politics.

[–] No1@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for this link. And I'll try to get through it all.

But it's cut like it's a TikTok. And it's 48 minutes long. Can somebody do a welfare check on me tomorrow?

[–] eureka@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If you mean all the cuts and animations in the introduction, that eases up afterwards :)

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago