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Millennials are not old enough to "get more conservative."

But you know who IS getting more conservative? Gen X.

If you are young and are conservative, you don't have a heart. If you are old and are liberal, you don't have a brain.

Liberalism is a sign of compassion. Conservatism is a sign of wisdom.

SFC Casey O'Mally - Millenials are absolutely old enough to get more conservative and we can observe a change in the trend. The question is why is there a change and is the trend really what we think it is.

My hypothesis is that people become more conservative as they accumulate more assets they want to protect. But Millenials are the generation where the aiblity to accumulate wealth was broken.

"Millennials — born between 1981 and 1996 — started out on the same trajectory, but then something changed. The shift has striking implications for the UK’s Conservatives and US Republicans, who can no longer simply rely on their base being replenished as the years pass."

https://www.ft.com/content/c361e372-769e-45cd-a063-f5c0a7767cf4

"The shift is remarkable. According to an analysis by the Financial Times, if millennials were following previous trends, someone aged 35 would be about five percentage points less conservative than the national average and would gradually become more conservative. The reality, says the FT? “They’re more like 15 points less conservative, and in both Britain and the US are by far the least conservative 35-year-olds in recorded history.”"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/03/millennials-radicalism-not-getting-more-rightwing-with-age

In fact the whole thing may be much more conplex when taking a longer look at history and even the above analysis may be missing the point. Not too long ago it was thought the opposite happened.

"About 40 years ago, it used to be thought that people got more liberal as they aged. In those days, the oldest people were the people who came of age during [President Franklin Delano] Roosevelt—or the Silent Generation. On the whole, the Silent Generation was more liberal than some subsequent generations. So when you just look at the relationship between ideology and age, what you find in this case is that the older people were more liberal, and the younger people were more conservative. The thinking then becomes: getting old makes you realize that liberalism is the right way of looking at the world.

But as time went on, it sort of switched because all those people died, and the people who came of age in the 50s became the old people, and the people who came of age in the 60s and 70s were younger and more liberal. Now we've gone through a couple waves of this, because my understanding is that the '80s cohort effect was fairly strong in making people more conservative."

https://phys.org/news/2023-01-millennials-age-hard.html