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| Topic | have liberals changed or have I changed |
| Anteaterking 10/11/18 12:37:05 AM #39: | As an honest answer to your question, here are the three most common ways I see people become less liberal/see themselves as less liberal as they go from their late teens to their mid twenties or so. 1) Being liberal was just the default position in their peer group, friend group, etc. and they agreed with liberals on the more generational issues (not being anti-gay and things like that), and weren't really tested on their other beliefs so they just assumed they followed the liberal platform. Later on in life as some of those issues became more relevant, they discovered that they didn't hold the "liberal position" on them. So they feel less liberal, but it's really that the focus of issues changed from an area where they were left leaning to one where they were more centrist/right leaning. 2) They were honestly liberal, but changed their mind once one of those decisions negatively impacted them. The most common example of this is someone who gets a job with what they perceive as a high salary, and the first time they ever have to pay taxes in their life it shakes them to their core because they mentally put themselves in the category of that high salary and now their money doesn't go as far as they thought it was going to. This somewhat overlaps with people who support liberal social welfare policies until they don't need them, in which case they were never really "liberal" about it, they're just voting in their own self interest. 3) They were never really liberal at all and they just pretend that they were in the past because they think it gives their complaints more legitimacy. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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