When I'm 54

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I'm just randomly wondering whether we think that people turn Conservative as they get older, or whether certain generations were naturally more inclined towards conservatism and they've kept that with them.

Personally I'd have put myself maybe very slightly right of centre until recently, but the last few years have pushed me a bit further left than I'd have thought possible, although I'm still an anti-extremist, centrist, moderate, fuck-off-with-your-shite, sort of person.

So I've turned pink rather than blue at 50.

Do people really 'turn Conservative' when they get a bit older and more comfortably-off? Or is it just that certain generations were always Conservative and the bump's just working through?

I believe I'll be a Tory by the time I'm about 175

Why is this in Brexit thread?

There has been a thread about this recently and, as far as I am concerned (age 64), the answer is never. My Dad was Lib Dem until he died at 92.

I suppose 'shared events' or experiences (like being a teenager in the WW2, or in 1980-84) could change the future perceptions of a whole generation of people couldn't it?

I suppose what I'm wondering is whether my vehemently anti-Trump, anti-Brexit, anti-Johnson, DGS is likely to become a Conservative in 35 years time? Greta Thunberg?

Or will things actually change as today's 20-30s become older. Will they keep their values or turn Conservative?

Why is this in Brexit thread?

Sorry, I didn't have a cat picture handy!

I've got steadily more left-wing as I've got older. I was staunchly Tory in my late teens and early twenties . Definitely left of centre now (late 40s).

I started off left-leaning and have got steadily more left and more feminist as I have got older and understood more about the world. My parents are in their seventies/eighties but are left-leaning Remainers!

I was getting at whether we naturally lean that way as we get older and more comfortable, or whether the 'average' political bias of people born in 1967 shifted slightly right when they hit 50 in 2017.

Again, what has this got to do with Brexit? My young adult nephew voted Leave. My late Mum voted Remain just before she died.

I am in my late 60s. I haven't turned Tory yet, and really can't see it happening.

Im assuming this thread is with reference to older voters voting Tory at the election.

My parents have got more left wing as they’ve got older.

Still as left leaning and socially liberal at 53 as I was at 18. Maybe more so. Certainly more likely to take to the streets with a banner.

Definitely more consciously feminist now than I ever have been, although I’ve always described myself as such. (“Yes of course I’m a feminist, why wouldn’t I be?”)

I can’t see this changing.

I think I’ve also dragged my formerly politically uninterested vaguely centrist DH to the left by saying “Have you seen this?” a lot and ranting.

Not here, , like you Personally I'd have put myself maybe very slightly right of centre until recently, but the last few years have pushed me a bit further left than I'd have thought possible, although I'm still an anti-extremist, centrist, moderate, fuck-off-with-your-shite, sort of person.
I've always been a sort of live and let live' sort of a person and a 'treat everyone as I'd like to be treated' sort of a person and a 'presume everyone is nice until they prove otherwise' sort of a person, though I don't think my politics have changed particularly I think the main political parties have. I am certainly vehemently anti-Trump, anti-Brexit, anti-Johnson.

Commentators say that youngsters tend to be left leaning (when they own nothing themselves) and become more right leaning once they own things themselves. Personally amongst my friends in 50s and 60s, there is a huge will to contribute more to "society" - including increased taxes (which, of course, are more affordable as you climb the career ladder and usually earn more). Som, in my own little world, I think there is a big cohort who become far more left leaning as they come out of the years when money is so tight (paying for mortgage and childcare and being generally knackered on 'middling' wages).

44 here. Much more political. Much more feminist. I guess slightly more left wing. But in so far as I agree with some Lib Dem policies. I hope that it will be a cold day in hell before I swing over to agreeing with the Conservatives though.