Bobby Hart under pressure

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(06-25-2020, 01:27 PM)Nately120 Wrote: I'd say thats where the myth of people getting more conservative as they age being a product of wisdom cones from.  If you stand still you "move" to the right as society moves left. 

I think it's a combination of that and the age old discussion on taxes. Maybe there was a time when social issues were not the main platform pieces of the two parties. Like, maybe in the 20s or 30s, there was a truly fiscally conservative and a truly fiscally liberal party and that was their main platform. If this were the case, I could see why young people would want more social programs to help poor people and then once they had some money would want their taxes lowered.

But now that social issues are, in a lot of ways, the main parts of the parties' platforms, it is much harder to move from left to right as you age. Because if you thought racism was bad in the 60s, the odds that you no longer think racism is bad in the 90s or 00s are pretty low.