I believe it comes from misunderstood studies that find out that people tend to become more conservative as they age, but the studies aren’t about the political meaning of conservative, but about our behavior of tending to avoid risks and seek stability as we age.
I had a co-worker tell me that if I was a Republican before I was 30 I was heartless and if I was a Democrat after 30 I was brainless. I was 20-something at the time.
I see memes like this all the time though I’ve never actually heard that outside of memes.
Personally, I used to be more conservative when I was younger and more naive (and being conservative was less vitriolic).
I believe it comes from misunderstood studies that find out that people tend to become more conservative as they age, but the studies aren’t about the political meaning of conservative, but about our behavior of tending to avoid risks and seek stability as we age.
Same.
I went from middle (trying to reason with it) to left with:
“Maybe businesses are what saves us because the government continues to fail us” to “Star Trek was a dream scenario. We’re headed towards cyberpunk.”
I had a co-worker tell me that if I was a Republican before I was 30 I was heartless and if I was a Democrat after 30 I was brainless. I was 20-something at the time.
I had a civics teacher tell the class that once. He also fed us a bunch of other conservative bs.