I don't believe this is going to be the case currently... the trend towards conservative was a fiscal phenomenon, as young kids who didn't have a lot of money and wanted a welfare state grew up and became financially independent, they wanted to keep what they were working to get. This would cause a self centric migration from trending democrat to trending republican.

That isn't how the partisan tribes currently work... They've become more of a "morality" enterprise, on both sides.

The choice is now if you think it's appropriate to ban huck finn and Tom Sawyer for the n word, or ban homosexual references. It's a question of do we spend taxes on blacks and the poor, or do we spend it on cluster bombs for Ukraine.

I don't think people will evolve from one side to the other the way boomers did. I think they're evolving farther from center, on both sides.

I don't like book bans period. I don't like the budget growing exponentially period. I don't like that 99% of the population increasingly wants the other half to be completely discounted... I'm essentially evolving towards not liking anybody at all.

I don't think "liberals" are going to become more "conservative" as they age, because that scale is divorced from party politics. Liberal is no longer a democrat trait, and conservative isn't purely republican. Both have adopted the entire con/lib scale in their own way. Democrats have conservative values, republicans have liberal values (the latter to a far greater degree, but I don't think it matters tbh). Just depends on what issue you're talking about.

[–] rivermonster@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LOL is this where reddit's r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM WENT? LMFAO

[–] aelwero@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yes... but I'm probably not going to last long, as there's already a pretty huge bias here...

I have not received a wonderful welcome here with my lack of political affiliation, and your comment speaks directly to it.

I'm much less inclined to forums with a Republican bias though, so I'm here, and hopeful. If you want the wishy washy motherfuckers that flip flop their votes and basically decide elections these days to hear your side and not theirs, maybe you could be slightly less intolerant...

[–] AProfessional@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Book bans are mostly a Republican policy https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/map-book-bans-rise-rcna25898

[–] loie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mostly? Where is there a Democrat proposing book bans??

[–] AProfessional@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The link shows a handful of Democrat majorities with book bans. A very small number comparatively.

[–] El_Rocha@lm.put.tf 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's a question of do we spend taxes on blacks and the poor, or do we spend it on cluster bombs for Ukraine.

I want someone to enlighten me on this, because my impression was that the democrats were the ones on board with bombing for Ukraine and republicans wanted to cut that spending (publicly, cause both parties love that war spending for their buddies to make money from).

[–] aelwero@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Ya know... that's not a bad point actually :)

Ill ponder that one. Definitely going to alter my perspective on Ukraine a little, but I'm not entirely sure how just off the cuff.

[–] notacat@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

This was also my impression, especially after the republican primary debate where they were scarily almost all anti-helping ukraine.