To add a serious point to this great tweet:
The traditional drift rightwards as people age is really a drift towards maintaining the status quo once you feel part of it.
But if you can't buy a house, see a GP, afford childcare or get a stable job you never become the status quo
“You’ll get more conservative as you get older” I definitely won’t but I am starting to appreciate Bruce Springsteen more
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DrakeGatsby/status/1589287710182690816
@garius I saw a grim suggestion that "you get right wing as you age" is to some extent survivorship bias—the poor/excluded die young.
(I—late fifties—am only getting angrier and more vehemently anti-establishment as I age, and I consider myself well-off. But the 0.1% elite are systematically looting the state and degrading the quality of public life while they hide behind high walls, and I'm not *that* well-off.)
@cstross to be honest i think in part it's a 'boomer thing'
i.e. it's very much a post-war generational convergence of factors.
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