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human
Would that imply that the current conservatives were ‘leftists’ back in the day?
gpt
This is often the case. The other factor to consider is that when you're young and liberal, the ideas that are progressive to you aren't far away from what you think is reasonable so they're easier for you to wrap your head around and get behind. Once you're 40 or older, you aren't necessarily viewing the changes that progressivism is asking for that way, because your baseline of what was "normal" or "reasonable" is 30 years old. So on top of the economic changes you don't want to make because you actually have money and property now, the social changes are so far out to you because of the social environment that you grew up in, that it makes you think the left has "gone too far," when in reality you just got older and have more shit than you used to.