Okay, I am sorry to quote myself but this a topic I've picked over and embodied for years, both personally and professionally.

When I shot off a bird thread about it in the grocery store parking lot in October of 2021, it resonated with a lot of people so I'm going to reproduce my words here, where there may be a different or more nuanced discussion about it.

Here goes: getting older does not make people conservative, that's a myth made by conservatives. (1/5)

@_L1vY_ Even the (flawed, as you pointed out) numbers of rising conservatism with age is being broken by millennials and more recent generations!

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

Millennials are shattering the oldest rule in politics

Western conservatives are at risk from generations of voters who are no longer moving to the right as they age

Financial Times