I am still young, but IQ peaks at 20 and i've had a very left winged mind since I can even remember.
Even at 8 and stuff I still had what I thought was morally correct even without knowing what politics is really. And now at peaking IQ age I still feel 100% on the left. I don't see my morals and world views ever changing.
Since I am pretty stubborn and focused on why I think that way through all logical conclusions. And well you cannot just 2+2=4 to then one day wake it been a 6. It shall always be a 4.
Not saying no to changing conclusions on evidence but that is not present, I am also scientifically minded of no faith. Scientists and atheists tend to be left view mains. So that statistically is working in my favour that I will probably stay the same.
Those with higher IQ's tend to stay away from religion too and move to more productive founded thoughts and morals on facts than belief. But in conservatives they tend to base a lot of it due to faith example abortion is murder cause life is sacred to god.
And mine is above average.
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Mostly the same for me. The idea that you get more conservative as you get older is pretty much just wishful thinking for Conservatives who desperately want to both appear more logical, as if everyone will agree with them eventually since they are at least in their minds "correct" and pretend that there will magically be a wave of new conservative supporters to rescue their dwindling numbers rather than acknowledge the steady decline they have suffered.
As silly as it sounds scientists has actually had to research this and disprove it for the simple reason that conservative egos could not handle reality and tried to substitute their own.
Here is one study and its probably the most "kind" study for this theory as it finds at least a small correlation between changing political alignment and people becoming more conservative rather than the other way around.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/706889
That said their findings is that for the most part peoples political ideologies remain pretty much the same.
I had no political views until after college because i never gave any political crap a second thought til i started voting. Voting for obama was a pressure thing. Fam said he’s black so vote obama, so i voted obama. I didn't pay attention to anything he represented. But after his time, i def focused on the beliefs of who i’d vote for next. And i’m glad i did. My fams as brainwashed as so many other reps and dems. I’m glad i think for myself now
I am an extreme leftist. But the politicians all only care about their own pockets so I don't care about the left side anymore. I will vote blank in the elections from now on. Because in the first election I voted for, the retarded candidate I voted for did not claim the votes.
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Mine haven't actually changed a whole lot, but what would've been considered center or even center-left when I was in high school would now be labeled far right theocratic fascist dictatorship by modern standards. I'd say my views have shifted away from fairly centered to being more right-libertarian though, mainly due to working with the government and military and consequently being extremely disillusioned with the idea that the US government can or will ever be able to run any kind of social programs competently when it can't even look after it's own house with a modicum of efficiency. That, and there's basically no such thing as moderate anymore, especially in the left side of things, so they treat you as the enemy if you aren't in lockstep with every issue no matter how spontaneously they change their stance. The right is more or less following the same path, but they're several years behind the curve.
I was more liberal as a kid and I've shifted more towards conservatism as I've gotten older, but I'm not a "conservative". I don't get why people like to put themselves in a box and only subscribe to a certain set of ideas. I guess I'd call myself a centrist as I'm liberal in some areas and conservative in others.
Main reason for the change is not me, but it's society in general. I feel the left has been hijacked by a number of self righteous individuals who feel they gain social credit by bringing in new things to champion.They have stayed the same. I lean Conservative, but I will vote on whoever I agree the most with, regardless of their party. For example, most of my views on government power and financial issues are Conservative, but I side with Democrats on student loan forgiveness. I am for a blanket $50,000 per borrower who makes under $75,000, but ONLY as a one-time measure and that forgiveness is ONLY granted once the borrower attends a credit-counseling course and signs a waiver stating they know not to expect any future forgiveness outside the programs that already exist (PSLF, teachers, etc.). The only reason I agree with the forgiveness is because students who took on these loans were not properly informed of their impact. No 18 year old is going to read 100s of pages of information in one sitting. Another measure I agree with is that students seeking student loans MUST take a course dedicated solely to credit and student loans before signing.
I became significantly more liberal. I was raised in a religious house so was pretty staunchly conservative until I gave up religion but still distrusted government. Then I became a libertarian until I got a job and realized rich people can't be trusted either. Then I became apolitical until I realized my distrust of government turned out to be something those same untrustworthy rich people told me to do. So now I'm center left ish.
As a teen I went through a communist phase, (where I grew up was a ship building and mining area which was inundated with communists), also people would die before voting conservative, I then went more labour, then conservative, then labour, then conservative, at the moment fuck knows as all pretty wank.
When I was 19 I moved to a big liberal city, as I was very liberal. Ironically today I'm considered very conservative and yet my views have no changed.
I've since moved back to my hometown area but just goes to show how society and politics have changed.Well I was apolitical and then in 2000 my parents wanted Bush to win so I did too but I didn't really know anything about politics so I didn't pay too much attention to it and remained apolitical but then in 2004 I saw John Kerry bashing the vets that he served with and thought what a jerkoff and that was the beginning of me being right wing. I was completely on the right for years but then my views became more mixed mostly conservative but liberal on some issues now I am completely done with politics. I now see it for what it is which is a divide and conquer strategy to make us fight. I guess my views are still mixed but mostly I just am against communism and the woke left BS.
More libertarian-right, I suspect, although I never had this political compass test back. But I was quite the centrist as a child -- maybe even close to dead center on the graph -- when I was younger. I wanted to fix the world's problems but at the cost of not minding my own business and not realizing how complex the world really is, not to mention having little idea of how economies actually work.
I have always been liberal leaning slightly against socialism. Since I think society needs a good safety net. To avoid all crime and suffering caused by the exploitation of the otherwise desperate. This view still stands. I am just less naive about society as a whole.
They've always been about the same, but I read most of the philosophy section of my library when I was around 12 years old and received awards in politics and economics when I graduated high school. So I guess I learned early...
Mine never shifted. I've always been more conservative, however I also enjoyed talking and listening to my more liberal friends. We may not always have agreed, but we kept it civil and respectful. This is something I truthfully feel a great many people don't do, and it's one of the reasons why we have such a divide in this country.
Not sure whether I became more conservative (little c) or whether liberals (Labour in the UK) became more insane. Probably both. Vast swathes of people in our country have moved away from Labour in recent years despite long held dislike of the Conservatives. Largely because Labour do not appear to represent them anymore.
Stayed the same. Article 4 Section 4 of the US Constitution guarantees a Republican form of government.
I am leaning more towards Conservative because of the society norm that has become too low. It has just become a shitshow where you force girls to start OFs as early as they turn 18. You create a hypersexualized society that judges you based on your sexual life. A society where sex and orientations are the center of everything. Its becoming a fucked up world.
More liberal. Although when I was younger I supported the local conservative party simply because family did whereas now I support no party because both suck equally.
I stayed very politically neutral until the late 90's, at which point I began swinging towards the conservative Right. And in the last several years, I've continued moving in the conservative Christian direction
i went conservative for a couple years now im more far left then I've ever been. im more libertarian socialist now these days. i feel like ill be here for the rest of my life too
Voted wrong. Meant to vote A. As I gotten older I realized liberal policies are better for a country and its citizens.
Socially I've always been a liberal. I rebel against traditions and do what I desire to do.They stayed the same. I was always at odds with my contemporaries with my pro American views. I would never even own a foreign made car.
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my views are the same as the day I was about 12 years old...
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