Since most people tend to get wiser as they age..liberals explain why they tend to become more conservative.?

Answer 1

i asked my father this very question once and here's how he answered.

when they're young college kids with no bills or responsibilities and very little experience in the real world, it's easy for them to be rebellious liberals who spit on their country and call wealthy people "rich greedy capitalistic pigs" and babble on about how they should contribute more of their money to the poor.

but once they graduate, here's what happens.

they'll get a job, buy a house, get married, have kids, and realize that the real world is rough. they'll spend years struggling month by month to make ends meet and soon get tired of working their tail off just to pay their bills.

so then they'll work harder to get a promotion or a better job and they'll make more money to ease their life struggles. by this time, they're well into their 40's and will resent some know nothing 18 yr old punk calling THEM " rich greedy capitalistic pigs" and lecturing THEM how they should contribute more of their earnings to the poor.

and around and around it goes.

Answer 2

Wisdom is one thing, but librealism and conservatism is another. I'm sure the people who speculated and manipulated the stock market in the 1920s, which led to the Great Depression, weren't young professionals but wealthy old men who didn't have the wisdom to care for the well being of intire country as a whole. Greed is greed and it breeds more greed. The election of FDR in '32' was just a minor liberal correction. Today we're in the same mindset and it will take a major liberal correction to fix this conservative mess. What comes around goes around. Liberalism is about principle not money...how else would you explain FDR?...a very wealthy man. Thank god for his wisdom!!!

Answer 3

That is a broad generalization and not true. The older I get the more I realize I'm a left leaning, flaming liberal. I would rather die than be "conservative." Conservative is another word for narrow minded, self centered, shallow individual. Good luck to you, pal, and your conservative mindset. I can generalize too..I bet you're fat, white, live in the suburbs and if you don't cheat on your wife, you think about it all the time.

Answer 4

People also tend to need more money as they get older. They're forced to buy houses, cars, diapers, food, etc. With this comes a conservative tendency, as people realize how much they depend on the capitalist system and want to keep as much of their money as they can. That kind of defines conservatism.

True liberalism, environmentalism and freedom is something valued most by people who are young enough to see their world with wide lenses, in terms of what it should be, rather than what it is and what effects only them. Some say liberalism is a luxury. I see it as similar to youthful energy--we should treasure it and try to keep it around as long as we can.

Conservative at 20 - You have no heart.
Liberal at 40 - You have no head.

Answer 5

Not sure thats accurate, cant give you any studies to agree or disagree, I know that I for one have become more liberal as I've become more financially stable, more accepting of others. And much more willing to help those less fortunate.....seems to me thats the family values, christian thing to do.

Answer 6

Probably because they decided to stop learning or maybe because they get tired of arguing with hard headed people and they figure that life is to short to bother.



I will like to see scientific proof of that tho.

Answer 7

It takes some children most of their lives to stop believing in the Tooth Fairy.

Answer 8

seems like people get families and then just don't care about anyone but their own families anymore...

it's like they get this odd paranoia/greed about being able to take care of those around them...

I see it all the time on here... conservatives that say "I take care of my family, everyone else has to take care of theirs"... and that seems to be about as far as their thought process goes on the issue...