Boomers started out progressive then sold out. They project this onto everyone else as if it’s the natural order of things.

There's data on this: https://d6c748xw2pzm8.cloudfront.net/prod/42800fa0-876c-11ed-b4ef-3dee38a55a6d-standard.png

Millenials, and presumably gen z, are getting less conservative with age, a complete reversal of the traditional trend. We're also the first generation that's poorer than our parents.

They kept the money flowing in the post-war economy, and kept propping it up with increasing globalisation, pushing the poverty onto poorer nations, but it looks like that's stopped working and now the economy is cannibalising its own young.

I hope this sparks revolution, and I see our job right now as building the structures that will make a better world afterwards.

I used to be conservative up to my mid 20s because I didn’t know enough about the world and all I had was my parents’ influence.

Now in my mid 40s I’m as progressive as they come, and I believe there are absolutely no redeeming qualities of being a “conservative” and it’s ruining society.

Boomers to me in my teens: "Don't believe anything on the internet, find actual trust worthy verifiable sources."

Boomers to me in my 30's: "Don't trust the LameStream media! I found this guy on Facebook who made a real compelling video about how all Hollywood stars are transgender!"

It also needs to be noted that a lot of "conservatism" is straight up fascism, mask on and mask off. If you undermine social programs while shouting about how you are protecting kids and families, you are conserving jack shit.

My brother (staunch conservative) once paraphrased Churchill to me: "Anyone who is a conservative when they're young is heartless; anyone who's a liberal when they're old is brainless."

Now that 50 is just over the horizon for me, I say that someone who voted for Donald Trump thinking I'm brainless is a compliment. Also, forgive student debt, give us universal healthcare and a universal basic income, fuck the rich, and come the revolution, may each of you reading this get to throw a Molotov at someone who owns a private jet. 💙

In my 20s, I always pointed out that the empirical evidence shows that, as people get older, their political positions generally just... become harder-line versions of the positions they held in their 20s.

As time has passed, that's born out. I'm still a leftie, just a franker and more ticked off one.

Ditto. I've become far more liberal as I age. I attribute this to the fact I'd like the world to be slightly better for everyone else when my generation starts dieing off. At this rate I have little hope that will be the case.

This resonates with me a lot as someone that's been left of center in FL for the past 27 years. I feel really defeated actually. I've typically identified as politically active, but I just feel run-over at this point. I am working on getting approval from my job to leave this state, and I'm 2 out of 3 hurdles done. I can't fight fascism my entire life, and I feel like I have. I'm tired.

Just because the world is shitty the way it is, it doesn't mean that it has to stay that way.

And just because you personally benefits from the injustice of the broken system, it doesn't mean you shouldn't oppose it.

That's the part of the movie's message I feel that people tend to miss.

My dad gave me that "if you're not liberal in your youth you have no heart, if you're not conservative as you age then you have no brain" nonsense and here I am, brainless.

Remember that there are exceptions, just like in anything! My mother who's close to retiring and her friend (a 70 y.o. pothead that worked as a teacher and then managed a theater) are still left of center and are much more open to all things LGBTQ+ then a lot of people my age!

My opinions essentially haven't changed since i was 16: be kind, recognize that everyone is just trying their best to make sense of reality, seek the truth, be optimistic, and reach for the stars. In practice, that makes me pretty far left in the current political climate. I don't understand why people's opinions would change as they get older. The only thing that's changed for me is I'm more confident in having my own opinions and not trying to conform.

If you're conservative when you're young you have no heart.

If you're liberal when you're old you have no money.

Guess why the new generations don't become conservative with age.

Im conserving my groceries more. Making soup out of vegetable scraps

It's really quite simple; all of the wealth has gone to executives and shareholders.

Regular working people have been fucked.

Becoming more conservative is a result of having amassed a fortune to protect. No fortune, nothing to conserve.

What I find funny about right wingers trying to say that people will become more right-leaning as they get older is that the quote that they're citing seems to point to the idea that the left-wing person's ideas aren't going to change and that they'll continue to hold the same beliefs.

“It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.”

Seems to imply that it means you'll get stuck in your ways and continue to hold left-leaning views, the exact opposite of what the boomers are saying, it's based on an older version of the word conservative, meaning to keep things as they are. Ironic that they're citing it as a reason for why they think people will become like them when it seems to point to the opposite, that they'll stay the same and continue to hold left-wing views.

Of coarse the idea that someone will stay the same or change in some predictable way is a generalization, people grow and change in different ways depending on the individual, same applies for getting stuck in said ways.

Boomers really are the dumbest, most arrogant and obnoxious people on the planet, huh

If you can't win, you have to resist.

I don't think getting older necessarily mean you become conservative. I reckon many people conflate with looking for stability with capital "c" Conservatism. I certainly understand now what one means by looking to settle down. But it would not make me fiscal conservative; become a pro-lifer; religious; or traditional.