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Because older generations tend to be more conservative than younger generations, it looks like people get more conservative with age.

This is, thankfully, untrue.

People get more progressive with age.

It's just that previous generations get a little left behind. The jump between generations is bigger than the progress that happens within people, giving the illusion that older people become more conservative.

Some good news for once. 😊

brilliant.org/lesson/the-overt

brilliant.orgThe Overton Paradox | Brilliant

@selzero that's a nice read. As a European, I'm always puzzled at first by the use of the term 'liberal'. At least in NL, liberals are considered as centre at best, but usually more as conservative. The 'lefties' are called 'progressive' in stead.

Or maybe, when comparing EU and US, the centre is also different?

@freekbomhof

I'm in the UK and I follow a lot of US politics and feel the same.

I am not a liberal. I am a progressive.

@freekbomhof

I think in the US the scale is skewed so they consider liberals to be on the left.

Their scale goes: capitalist serfs in the middle, actual Nazis on the right.

@selzero @freekbomhof

Makes me laugh when Americans talk about ‘the left’. They don’t have a clue what ‘the left’ is. What they actually have, in the grand scheme of things, is far-right and even further right. 👀

@partnumber2 @freekbomhof

The relationship between the people of the USA and the excuse they have for "the left"

"Hey can we have healthcare?"

"No"

"Adult education?"

"No"

"Regulate firearms so my kid can go to school?"

"No"

"A proper welfare system?"

"No"

"At least make life easier for migrants?"

"No"

"Well, why am I voting for you again?"

"You better. Because otherwise you get the bad guy"

@shreegupta @selzero @partnumber2 @freekbomhof 50 or 60 years ago I could have understood that. But not any more.