Yes. But I started out as a communist. So now I'm a democratic socialist.

I seem to move further to the left the older I get, but I was never what anyone would call conservative.

Nope. Absolutely didn't happen. I think I'm pretty much the same as I always was, except that as I age I'm more willing to just say what I think out loud and I don't care who is offended by it. ...That said, there are still people who are further left than I am. I sometimes offend them, too.

No!!! I went from being a Reagan Republican to being a liberal Democrat to progressive to Democratic socialist to just plain socialist (Marxist) at the age of 47. I just don't see any compassion in capitalism and that is the value I choose to prioritize in my politics. Bleeding heart? I say at least I have one!

Not me, brought up in a conservative family...married into a family of reformed Jews...liberal ever since.

I never was very conservative, and have gotten more liberal as I got older, or more aware of how liberal I am compared to the local population.

No. I was raised by a white supremist misogynist Republican who, unfortunately, raised me with the ability to speak my mind. I could never understand why republicans were not more compassionate towards others. Perhaps if they had that quality, who knows, I might be a card-carrying Republican today. I knew, though, that caring about our fellow man had to be in the equation or I couldn't buy in.

No..even more leftist now than even 10 years ago..I hope the Dems wake the fuck up and dump their right of center platforms..along with the out of touch Congressional leadership.
The last election was proof that their Old School Centrist policies have failed..Chuck Schummer showed he's a fool for Trusting McCornhole, Pelosi is tone deaf to the majority of younger voters in her distict..

I find myself agreeing with the right on more issues than the left, although most times I find the positions arbitrary and unnecessarily divisive. Both sides annoy me. But the major parties don't really give me any options. I couldn't vote for two Clintons in my lifetime (although I did), and I couldn't vote for a narcissistic, spoiled reality TV billionaire.

And then Johnson sticks out his tongue and can't remember Syria? The Libertarians disappointed me even earlier than usual this time.

I mean, shit.

So, even though I lean Libertarian (left on permissive social policies and right on reasonable fiscal and reduced government), I got no one to vote for. So, for me the question is purely a pointless thought exercise.

Thanks for asking?

I consider myself to be center leaning. Even though I call myself a Democratic Socialist of the Bernie Sanders persuasion. I wouldn't say that I've becoming less left leaning. I prefer to think things through before I make a decision on where I stand. Sometimes when something comes up in the news and I think about it some and I tend to change my view.

In fact I've "become" more left. The more I've learnt, particularly about economics and the origins of capitalism, the less I've been able to reconcile that knowledge with the lemming-like drive of the Chicago School toward the catastrophic destruction of capitalism. One of the great ironies of the last forty years has been that the voodoo economics of Reagan and Thatcher, employed in Thatcher's case to remodel the society in which she claimed not to believe, have massively enriched part of society whilst gradually impoverishing the very people who funnel the money to the wealthy. The rich are eating themselves, they just don't know that yet.

70 this year and still an anarchist, if I had the health for it I'd be marching with the gang, been on more U.k. demo's than I can count (or remember these days) - loved it all!

Less EXTREMITY is what happens. On BOTH sides! But you probably become more firmly entrenched as you do...

Exactly the opposite.

I'm probably further left than a far thing can get.

We are social animals that are at our best when we support each other and work together to a common aim. I am a staunch supporter universal healthcare and universal basic income.

I was pretty right wing when I was younger. The older I get the more left I turn.

Thank goodness I opened my eyes.

I hate even being a passenger in a plane

Personally, I was not very political in my younger years, but as I've gotten older and more concerned about such things, I'm pretty middle-of-the-road now. But, I cannot abide the current political climate in D.C.

I think that was true of the Boomers, who protested the war, and yet elected Ronald Reagan to office twice. I think that because they did it, they just assumed that the rest of us would. But we live in a world where the opportunities once experienced by a middle class have gone away, and aging has meant added struggle. I suspect that this is no longer the case.

As a young man who knew only the southern bible-belt culture, I was politically conservative, because I did not know any better. I am not stupid enough to go back to the right--ever again.

Nope. Quite the opposite in fact.

BUT. There were some unusual life events that had a hand in it

I have noticed that my formerly wiccan liberal mother became a xtian although I wouldn't call her all that conservative

Brought up as a moderate, fiscally conservative (small r) republican … ‘what’s happened’ is the right’s become so extreme (here in the US), though little’s changed within me - it appears I’ve become ‘more liberal’ by simply standing still!

Beyond politics, I’ve long heard the same, and agree.. Becoming a parent shifts your perspective (as it should) like nothing else. Your freedom to be reckless is replaced by the ultimate in responsibility. And when considering what they’ll be ‘exposed to’ in life, no doubt more concerned than if it were still ‘just you’...

I’ve watched some friends go off the deep end, though.. The weird part being, they’d been the most reckless to begin with … now they’re teaching ‘sunday school’ classes, coaching little league teams or are ‘scout leaders.’ Guess only those having known them before ..know where the bodies are buried...

It is a shame that the country is filled with nut job right wing nonsense on thousands of radio stations. to make it worse, there is FOX TV, which sends out distorted "news" that make it impossible for those who watch it daily to get the whole story. I saw a group of people participating in a fact finding exercise with Frank Luntz. One older guy said that if Trump had done half the thing Obama did, he'd get the electric chair. When Luntz asked the group what they watched, most said FOX. It's really sad what these people are exposed to.

Im the exact opposite, was raised right winged, andi can say im was left wing now

I did for a while, but living in New Orleans, it was hard to get real news. I wasn't real bad, but I had that thought. When I moved to Chicago it was a whole new world. I became active in left wing causes. I even wrote the campaign song for the candidate running for the 14th district of the House. That district was drawn so red that the Republican didn't didn't have to campaign, yet he won bigly. There's also a progressive radio station WCPT

Not even a little