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.

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?

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 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.

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

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!

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.

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

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