Interesting to me to see this talked about. I have observed in myself over the years becoming more left leaning, 20 years ago I considered myself maybe just left of center. Now with more real world observations and experiences I am much further over to the left side.

Always wondered why people "traditionally" moved right as they aged, since it has been the opposite of me. I guess many people take something different out of their life experiences, I don't know. Interestingly as well, I think my parents (born in the early 50s) may have changed similar to me, but that could just be a difference in my own perception. I think they have always been somewhat left leaning despite being fairly religious, but probably 10 or more years ago they stopped attending church. I don't think they claim much to any religion these days, despite my father having been a preacher for like 25 years.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 23 hours ago

Always wondered why people “traditionally” moved right as they aged

I don't believe it has ever been seriously suggested (by serious researchers) that there's a link directly between age and conservatism. Rather, there are links between conservatism and various things that tend to be more common with age. Marriage, home ownership, higher wealth, etc. So it's unsurprising that a generation where that is happening much less would be the one where the correlation with age disappears.