• alvvayson@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Same here. I got older and richer and became even more left wing than I used to be.

    But what is true, is that society is becoming more progressive faster than I am, so by the time I am 70, I’ll probably be a relative relic.

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      9 months ago

      I mean… they were right… i am more conservative as i got older. I now put more money in my 401k. I save more. I eat at home more.

      However, i still think other races and sexual preferences are human, and billionaires dont need to exist. Social welfare is still a good thing and probably more important than ever.

      I did buy a gun though. Target shooting is fun. But, we need a hell of alot more gun control than there is now. If anything, my experience buying a gun made me more scared due to how easy it was.

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        9 months ago

        I don’t think saving money and eating at home are conservative values.

        Lots of liberals and progressives do those things, too.

        Heck, poor minorities do that to an extreme.

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        9 months ago

        Political conservatism is distinctly NOT about IRL conservatism.

        What they conserve is the “social order”. They want to preserve the social stratification, not forests.