It's funny that your sarcasm isn't being met with an honest response.
We have the (paraphrased because I'm tired and I don't really care to be perfectly accurate) phrase "liberal in my youth, conservative as I age" which comes about precisely because as we age we are no longer the same people as we were in school.
Sure, that definitely bears saying but it's also not the direct counter to your post that they thought it was.
Not only that, but when you're young, you don't have anything to lose... Then you start a family, throw money at a house and other things and shake your fists when you get the latest property tax bill ... THEN after you're in the game for a while, and life is kicking your ass do you actually have something to lose... and you want to keep as much if it as possible.
Young dumb and full of it, free for all sounds great. Age a bit, realize that YOU are the one paying for the free for all shindig, and something has to give. There's nothing magical about politics changing over time...call it wising/waking up.
It's funny that your sarcasm isn't being met with an honest response.
We have the (paraphrased because I'm tired and I don't really care to be perfectly accurate) phrase "liberal in my youth, conservative as I age" which comes about precisely because as we age we are no longer the same people as we were in school.
Sure, that definitely bears saying but it's also not the direct counter to your post that they thought it was.
Not only that, but when you're young, you don't have anything to lose... Then you start a family, throw money at a house and other things and shake your fists when you get the latest property tax bill ... THEN after you're in the game for a while, and life is kicking your ass do you actually have something to lose... and you want to keep as much if it as possible.
Young dumb and full of it, free for all sounds great. Age a bit, realize that YOU are the one paying for the free for all shindig, and something has to give. There's nothing magical about politics changing over time...call it wising/waking up.
Thus the hard continuous push to infantilize high schoolers and college students, then even afterwards.