As you got older, did your political views become more liberal, conservative or stay the same?

[ChubbyKing]

I used to be ever so slightly on the right, like about 0.3 last time I took this test a few years ago and about the same libertarian wise, but I always take this political compass test with a grain of salt because it words questions in a very black and white manner, sometimes seeming a bit loaded like when it asks about abortion it words it in such a way that you're either ALWAYS for it or ALWAYS against it

More liberal

More conservative

Stayed the same

[Kaneki05]

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.

[acepillager]

You’re IQ doesn’t peak at 20, how ridiculous to say. Do you honestly believe you stop learning at 20?

[Kaneki05]

@acepillager i didn't say you stop learning at 20. So don't try put words in my mouth. I said IQ peaks at 20 which is not the same as saying you stop learning lmao. Scientists have long known that our ability to think quickly and recall information, also known as fluid intelligence, peaks around age 20 and then begins a slow decline.
news.mit.edu/.../brain-peaks-at-different-ages-0306

[Soteris]

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.

[DizzyDesii]

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

[ARandomGuy95]

Everyone knows that's why anyone voted for that idiot. The only reason is because he is black no one put any real thought into it.

[Anonymous]

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.

[BCA6010]

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.

[Kkaos]

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.

[libsaretards]

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.

[normalice]

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.

[ChrisMaster69]

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.

[Dragonpurple]

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.

[TheMijopapi]

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.

[GoldenAxer]

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.

[GoldenAxer]

That said, I still call myself a true liberal or classic liberal as in valuing free markets, including the freedom of speech, and minimizing the ability for governments to intervene in our lives and decisions. Yet that seems to make me "conservative" by US standards nowadays.

[rcljr]

Then you are a left leaning Republican or libertarian in today’s reality, democrats or “ liberals” are useless, tax sucking, non working socialist Che Guevara wannabe’s…

[GoldenAxer]

@rcljr I suspect I'm something like that. Where I find the conservative label a bit tricky with the stereotypes it conjures up is that I'm against the war on drugs, for example. I'm not pro-drugs but I'd rather offer rehabilitation to junkies like Portugal than lock them up. I'd rather just get the government out of marriages but if they're gonna be involved, I think "whatever" about things like homosexual marriage. With concepts like minimum wage, I think an employee and employer should be able to negotiate a wage freely without a middle man telling the worker that they're charging too little or the employee that they're paying too little. I'm a mind my own business type of guy. If someone doesn't forcefully mess with me and my loved ones and our property, I'm cool. The only time I really want government intervention ideally is when they do.

[GoldenAxer]

@rcljr The biggest change growing up is that I got more responsibilities as an adult. So I became preoccupied with taking care of my loved ones. That's enough for me on my plate. When I was younger and had much fewer responsibilities, I was a bit nosy and at least mildly concerned with changing society and the world... which inadvertently implied that I wanted to control other people's behavior using the government as my instrument. Now I got enough to deal with and a sense that I don't know well enough to confidently do anything but mind my own business.

[Adam1978]

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.

[BeMuse]

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...

[VDrago14]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[iBeowulf]

Stayed the same. Article 4 Section 4 of the US Constitution guarantees a Republican form of government.

[ChubbyKing]

I don't see what that image has to do with the question but okay

[iBeowulf]

We can't all make logical inferences which require an IQ above room temperature. I'm saying that white men tend to vote Republican, in keeping with the guarantees of the Constitution.

[ChubbyKing]

... you do realize that Republicanism as a form of government isn't synonymous with American Conservative Republicanism as a political philosophy right? You're very rude for someone so ignorant.

[iBeowulf]

Tell it to the founding fathers fat boy

[ChubbyKing]

The Republican party didn't exist when the founding fathers drafted the Constitution dumbass. It was formed in the mid 1800s and wasn't even created for the purpose of maintaining a republic. It was to oppose the Kansas-Nebraska Act (although seeing as how you're clearly a white supremacist, you probably would support the idea of slavery, huh, ironic)

[iBeowulf]

Did I say "party?" Get mad at BenFrank, not me.

[ChubbyKing]

... bud, you idiotically thought that the Republican party, protects our republican form of government because of a similarity in name. I'm pointing out to you that the Republican party has nothing to do with the form of government and white men voting for it does nothing for maintaining a republic. It got its name from the Democratic-Republican party. The Democratic party took its name from the party, so later on after the Whigs dissolved, they formed a new party called the Republican party as a play on words. Man you're stupid beyond all reason

[iBeowulf]

The Democratic-Republican party most likely fell apart due to logical incoherence.
The primary difference between a republic and a democracy is that only a republic explicitly entails protections for the minority, the ultimate minority being the individual. I didn't make you wrong... that was J. Hancock.

[ChubbyKing]

That's for the irrelevant information. I know what the difference between a democracy and a republic are dipshit. I swear you're just typing words for the sake of typing without knowing what's going on

[iBeowulf]

Tell it to the electoral college, which Democrats want to get rid of... I win!

[ChubbyKing]

Wow you really are fucking stupid. The electoral college is just to make sure that smaller states have a bit of a boost in representation, getting rid of it wouldn't mean we're no longer a republic. Hell if the US didn't have states we wouldn't have the electoral college to begin with you goof

[iBeowulf]

The bill of rights and the electoral college are all that stands in the way of democratic mob rule. Go yell at Sam Adams.

[ChubbyKing]

You know you're not making yourself sound any more intelligent by name dropping random founding fathers right? And as I said, the electoral college just gives states more representation in choosing the president dumbass. Even without it we have the checks and balances of the multiple branches of government in place. So no, you wouldn't have "mob rule" without the electoral college. I don't even know why you brought the electoral college up, I'm not a Democrat

[iBeowulf]

We're a republic, not a democracy. G Wash doesn't care about your emotes.

[ChubbyKing]

I didn't say we were a democracy you idiot, but the electoral college isn't the determining factor over whether or not we're a republic, the fact we have people in Congress to represent us does. I think you might have some form of Autism

[iBeowulf]

I'm not a Democrat or a Republican, I'm a fence sitting political hipster!" [Goes insane at T. Pane]

[ChubbyKing]

Yeah you're definitely autistic

[iBeowulf]

I see you, fat boy.

[ChubbyKing]

You're gay too with that pfp

[iBeowulf]

Stop perving on my hot body.

[ChubbyKing]

You're built like napoleon dynamite, I'm vomiting

[iBeowulf]

I think your bing to purge ratio is off by a bit.

[FR_Ruby]

iBeowulf, how are you so stupid? Your reference has no relation to the question or the parties involved aside from the word "Republican." Your picture has nothing to do with anything here except your desire to bring white men into this discussion. Also the US Constitution should have nothing to do with an individual person's beliefs unless they want to blindly follow the US constitution and irrationally love America as if there was never anything wrong with it. The US Constitution needed 10 Amendments almost immediately by those same founding fathers, does that mean nothing to you? You also insult people so quickly before you even try to discuss anything. I will have a good time after I ban you, bye you American troll.

[iBeowulf]

Oh, so you're a pussy European with no guns? Naturally, you don't understand politics, human nature or the structure of a free society. Good riddance, fat boy. 🦒🍆🇺🇸🎲

[Anonymous]

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.

[TacosRAwesome]

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.

[mrkdvsn]

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

[Still-alive]

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

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

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.

[exitseven]

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.

[NathanDavis]

my views are the same as the day I was about 12 years old...

[_乃尺OЩ刀_TITI]

I became more liberal on social views. Not on economy, became more favourable towards social democratic model. Lost faith in liberal/neoliberal economics.

[rcljr]

I have never voted democrat and I never will vote democrat, guaranteed.

[genericname85]

i feel like my political views have stayed the same. but i feel like society has moved to the left quite a bit.

[EnglishEuropean]

If I've become slightly more conservative it's because I've seen that the left doesn't always live up to its' ideals. Whereas the right doesn't have any.

[najekim]

Floated. When I was young I was more liberal. As I grew older I became more conservative. Now as I have become more wiser my views are pretty much centered on the chart.

[MzAsh]

Definitely more liberal

[ManHater]

As you age you become more aware of the world. Women brains don't develop at all when it comes to everyone is a good human even the ones who rape and kill them this is why women never learn.

[EnglishEuropean]

You can't become aware of the world without leaving your basement. I didn't downvote you though, that was someone else who is actually in touch with reality.

[ManHater]

@EnglishEuropean Indeed as with all the sexual assaults that happened to women at the train stations in Germany on new years. They all wanted them in and accept them only to be raped by them.

[John_Doesnt]

That test was created by the Ultra Conservative Democratic Lizard people.

[zagor]

Personal experience has made me more libertarian in non-economic matters.

[Anonymous]

Nah I never had view before this year. Politics didn't matter to my life at all.

I never voted before I didn't know what cnn or fox news was. I didn't know what a liberal or conservative.

[Iron_Man]

My views have been exactly the same since I was a teenager

[rcljr]

I have always been conservative, now that I’m old and grumpy I’m militantly conservative.

[msc545]

More liberal as I became more aware of the harm that conservatives do.

[ARandomGuy95]

CONSERVATIVE. The more and more I see how this country is going.

[ARandomGuy95]

To the two people that disagree, enjoy your riots and $4.00 gasoline.

[Anonymous]

More liberal, but *actual* liberalism.
Meaning it moved me to the right, if anything.

[Anonymous]

More accepting of LGBTQ and diversity but more conservative overall

[rcljr]

Most conservatives don’t have issue with lgtbq people, until they band together in their lgtbq “ community” and start demanding shit,

[Opinion Owner]

@rcljr very true

[Torchwoods]

They become a more extreme version of whatever they were before.

[BCRanger10]

I've become more conservative.

[IncognitoBandito]

I've never identified as left or right

[This_Is_My_Opinion8]

More liberal. I used to be a conservative

[888theGreat]

more conservative , most people do

[Gwenhwyfar]

More liberal

[shortster]

Libertarian