EthiopianFood Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 Some of the thoughts I have nowadays just SHOCK me. I can't believe how much my perspective has changed as I've gotten older. Some of the things that are making sense to me now are ideas that would have viewed as straight from the DEVIL ten years ago! :001_huh: I'm just wondering how typical I am. I have come to terms with this all, so I'm not fessing up to which direction I've gone! Disclaimer: Yes, the options are very limited. There are too many variations to include everything! Just generalize. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalanamak Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 (edited) Not really. I think I know more about people and government, but no, not really. I consider myself right of the middle of the road fiscally, and rather left of the middle of the road socially. Robert Frpst said it for me: I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old. ETA: what has changed: I'm less of a nihilist, I'm more sentimental, and I love opera. Edited June 5, 2011 by kalanamak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spellbound Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 That is so funny! My hubby and I of 20 years just had a conversation this week, that was so different from where we were way back then. We started laughing, we really have changed our views. Did we really just say that?:lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibraryLover Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 I yam what I yam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sputterduck Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 We need an other. I went from really conservative around the age of 12 to not caring. I try to care. I just think it's all too messed up to have an opinion either way. Every answer seems wrong. Every side seems corrupt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 I wouldn't say mine have changed so much as mellowed. In my youth, I was just much more black and white about more things in politics. There are still some issues that I feel strongly about and think I'm a bit radical about, but for most issues, I'm just more open to the idea that there's a compromise or that there's not a single right answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plucky Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 I used to be very liberal. The only thing that changed for me was that I became pro-life and pro-hsing. I think the liberal left went far too left and then I was considered more conservative. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrganicAnn Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 Middle age is when your narrow waist and broad mind change places. I think people if they change do so gradually over time, unless something radical happens to the person. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 I chose both. Mostly, my views about politics haven't become more liberal or conservative but rather more cynical. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EthiopianFood Posted June 5, 2011 Author Share Posted June 5, 2011 I love opera. Shoot, I was going to put that in the poll! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audrey Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 Some of the thoughts I have nowadays just SHOCK me. I can't believe how much my perspective has changed as I've gotten older. Some of the things that are making sense to me now are ideas that would have viewed as straight from the DEVIL ten years ago! :001_huh: I'm just wondering how typical I am. I have come to terms with this all, so I'm not fessing up to which direction I've gone! Disclaimer: Yes, the options are very limited. There are too many variations to include everything! Just generalize. My views have definitely become more Marxist as I get older -- to the point so that there are some days I get such a Marxist rage-on that I feel like I could almost give up being a pacifist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slartibartfast Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 The same. my parents are similar politially to me. my paternal grandparents were as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slartibartfast Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 My views have definitely become more Marxist as I get older -- to the point so that there are some days I get such a Marxist rage-on that I feel like I could almost give up being a pacifist. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joanne Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 Not with "age" so much as with life experience. Early adulthood, I was a raging feminist. 1st marriage, 3 kids, I was conservative (fiscal and somewhat lifestyle). Having kids and being an at home mom changed my feminism. Single mother: challenged everything I thought I believed politically. Remarried, struggling: Feminism has re-oriented and emerged in new form. Liberal on social issues. Terribly conflicted on fiscal issues, but not a fan of current government spending and forays into business regulation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kokotg Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 Well, I was pretty conservative when I was in 8th grade. Then I got more and more liberal until 12th grade or so. Since then, I've stayed more or less the same. Ooh! I have an idea for a poll now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 Mine haven't changed. I've always been a liberal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peela Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 Always left, probably haven't changed much but if anything, even more left. Which isn't to say I agree with everyone left's policies at all, but the general direction, yes. I am not sure what that means in US. terms, though or what the key issues there are that define one one way or the other. Here, for me, it is environmental issues mainly that provoke me to voting for the more radical left. I guess I am pretty socialist too, though, although I am really not that interested in politics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudoMom Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 I've stayed pretty much the same. I lean pretty heavily one way, and I always have. I'm not so argumentative about it anymore, though--even though I'm convinced I'm right ;). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 I've always been pretty conservative. I guess I've changed more in degree than in ideology. I'm more conservative as I get older than I was when I was younger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 I've always been pretty conservative. I'm still fiscally conservative. I will every so often concede that there are shades of grey on social matters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitten18 Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 Yes, I have become much more liberal on social issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justamouse Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 The more I went through in life, the more liberal I got. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather in Neverland Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 Middle age is when your narrow waist and broad mind change places. . :lol::lol::lol: :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitten18 Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 I consider myself right of the middle of the road fiscally, and rather left of the middle of the road socially. That describes me pretty well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristineW Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 Moved to the center. Definitely more liberal socially (but not that liberal--still pro-life but ok with the rest); fiscally--I don't know. I think the spending priorities are messed up but I don't trust either party to fix things. On my way to becoming a radical environmentalist though. Christine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denisemomof4 Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 I'm sure age has a lot to do with it..... dh likely is a bigger influence.;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veritaserum Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 Still a fiscal conservative. Much more liberal on social issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorganClassicalPrep Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 It's hard to say. I definitely care more, and pay attention more, to the issues as I'm aging. (You know, at the ripe old age of 25... :lol:) On social issues I'm either a raging liberal or a hardline conservative- depending on which issue you are talking about. My social beliefs haven't really changed since... well, ever. Fiscally... I'm not really sure. I'd say it's in process, and I'm not sure where it will end. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kokotg Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 ...you know, I will say...I think my views now are a lot more informed than they were when I was younger. When I was younger, I was much more likely to think a certain way about things because it seemed the thing to do, or because people I admired held those beliefs. But it turned out, as I became more informed and thoughtful, I believed in the same basic things, only even more strongly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
actuary Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 Prior to college, I mainly leaned towards the conservative viewpoint. Then in college, I became a fairly staunch libertarian which I am now. So I would say I became more liberal on social issues/became more apathetic on social issues and I refined my viewpoints on fiscal issues thanks to my economics classes (one of my majors was economics). And now I tend to think of everything in terms of marginal benefit versus marginal cost and numbers and mathematical models...which makes me well suited for my profession but I tend to stay out of political discussions since I either bore people to death or make them think I am some sort of cold heartless person since I like my numbers and equations so much :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YLVD Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 I have always been very liberal and have actually gotten moreso with age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepper Potts Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 ...you know, I will say...I think my views now are a lot more informed than they were when I was younger. When I was younger, I was much more likely to think a certain way about things because it seemed the thing to do, or because people I admired held those beliefs. But it turned out, as I became more informed and thoughtful, I believed in the same basic things, only even more strongly. :iagree: I voted "stayed the same" because I've always been liberal and still am. However, I've certainly become much more informed with age, so I don't feel as though I've been stagnant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrogMom5 Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 Yes. I'm a more conservative than I was in my 20's. Denise Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick_Mom Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 It depends. In some ways my views have been moderated by life experience and by realizing that issues cannot always be reduced to simple, black-and-white answers. In other ways time has convinced me that my perspective on certain issues is more right than I ever knew. ;) In other words, in areas that I believe to be governed by objective truth and absolute standards, the truth and the standards are proving to be immutable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick_Mom Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 Dd #1 started college as a liberal. After graduating with a degree in political science and economics, she is now a conservative (fiscally speaking, anyway). And the campus wasn't conservative by any stretch -- she says it was her understanding of the subject matter of her major that changed her perspective. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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