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One thing I was told very often when I was younger was "You'll get more right wing as you get older."

Question to the left-leaning users on here: have you found yourself becoming less to the left as you've got older?

Jnei 8 Jan 27
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I have found the exact opposite to be true for myself.
I'm still pretty much a centrist, but I do lean to the left a bit.
I don't like extremes, in either direction.

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I worked for Barry Goldwatere's campaign. I worked for Hillary Clinton's campaign. I can not decide if a) I moved right to left, b) I stood still and the nation rolled to the right making it look like I moved, or c) if its some of both?

Ooh I like that

Western democracies have lunged to the right. You could have even shifted slightly right and still become "left". That happened to Malcolm Frazer, right wing prime minister of Australia, deposed a slightly left government at the behest of Gerald Ford. When he died he was a darling of the Australian left. He didn't change.

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I've been center left pretty much my whole life. The older I get and the more I see things, the more I am pushed away from stupid right wing thoughts. Extreme left and right are both crazy mind you, but I've never hovered over to the right wing over anything significant.

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Especially in this day and age of absolute insanity - some of me might be center - but most of me is wa-a-a-y over to the left !

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Getting more & more liberal as I am confronted with the Orange One and his ilk......

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Hardly and if I haven't by now I don't think I'm going to.

Kimba Level 7 Jan 27, 2018
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I'm glad to say that at 28 I've stayed more in the center of things... Many aspects I'm very "Left" on.. LGBT rights, healthcare,immigration and so forth.. However I remain a bit of a fiscal conservative.. I dislike rampant spending or at least the allocation of it towards things we don't need.. For example I was in the USN for the last 5 years and one of the things that always perplexed me was the sheer amount of money used and I often asked is this really that necessary? Do we really need 13 aircraft carriers? Do we need military bases around the world? I'm very middle of the road when it comes to social programs.. Food stamps,medicare, welfare and what have you... I always question, How do we fund these programs for the people that need them and just need a little help but still contribute while trying to cut down on waste and the folks who don't need help but want it? I used to work in a building in NY where they doled out the social programs and you could always tell those who needed a hand Vs. Those that didn't want to work the latter there always burned me up inside because even though I was a working, tax paying citizen they were getting more assistance than I was able to get. and more often than not they had nicer shit then I did.. Nicer homes, phones and some even had cars. Again I believe in these programs and their usefulness(I grew up on food stamps myself) but I feel like there needs to be better policing of them and more to get these folks into the work force if they can actually be placed into it. There needs to be a better way to get help to the people who need help while denying it to those that just want it.

Again very middle of the road in general.. I think both sides have good ideas but they both just go way too far to the left or way to far to the right for my comfort.

I'm a bit less liberal fiscally than I am socially and although I support the programs you mentioned, I would be in favor of overhauling them. Particularly SNAP. I was on food stamps as a child and no candy, soda, chips, cookies or cake were permitted; my mother could buy the ingredients and make cookies and cake but no store bought junk

@SherryMartin Honestly I would also make it a thing where name brands couldn't be bought.. Only store brand... So as to stretch out the usage

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Not at all. As time goes by and the right wing keeps getting crazier and more fascist, the more I shall resist

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Nope.... never ever again...

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