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Originally Posted by HolidayInTheSun
isn't there a pretty consistent slide from D to R from the ages of about 24-40 as people start to realise how the world works and shed some of their idealism?
Not so much a D to R thing as each younger generation is more progressive than the last, so as people age they're more conservative by default, some become more conservative as they get wealthier, in other cases the definition of progressive changes over time as things, well, progress.
Like I know a super progressive 87 year old nice dude who things 'im ok with the gays as long as they dont flaunt it in my face and do their own thing'. Obviously not quite progressive by 2020 standards, but hell that's pretty progressive until at least the 1990s when he would have been in his 60s.
That's about as progressive as you can get for a working class man in his late 80s I think
A lot of my fairly progressive views right now will probably gradually become moderate or even conservative leaning in 50 years time when i'm old