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Do People Really Become More Conservative As They Age?
Analyzing common claims that people grow more conservative over time, we find political attitudes largely persist across life stages. However, when folks shift ideologies, it trends from progressive to conservative rather than vice versa. We argue this reflects both individual agency and systemic youth indoctrination, making today’s brainwashed generations potentially unrecoverable.
Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] Gen Alpha is remarkably conservative in a lot of their views. Not old timey conservative. They're more conservative, like this channel's conservative.
I would say, like, they're, they're pretty, like, politically aligned. When I talk to gen alpha, like, broadly, they're just, like, super politically aligned with us. But it's going to require a hard victory by you know, the Republican side and some significant voting and voter reform after that victory that prevents the type of shenanigans we keep seeing by the quote unquote elite in our society.
Simone Collins: Which is unlikely.
Malcolm Collins: I don't think it's that unlikely. I think it could happen. Yeah, I think that they consistently overplay their hand. I think that they were so happy with how the overplay went during the COVID situation. We might see something else like that in the near future over something more trivial.
And the question is, is how far do they need to go before the general public wakes up? And keep in mind that the demographics are not in their best interest.
Would you like to know more?
Simone Collins: It's very good. Low stress watching, [00:01:00] although it's really hard to Danny Gonzales
Malcolm Collins: is a fantastic I, I really took him as an inspiration when we started this channel as part of like, the character I wanted to do, you know, very You're not at all like
Simone Collins: Danny Gonzales, but I, I mean, I love you way more, but I don't I mean, Danny's He has
Malcolm Collins: a sort of wholesome, family friendly vibe, but put on top of controversial content for us, and instead of
Simone Collins: Right.
Yeah. Like when he covered the tour of that house that had like the weird like sex dungeon, and
Malcolm Collins: I mean, the problem is like conservative intellectual content is so much of it is either like, you know, daddy, daddy figures, you know, like you're
Simone Collins: like Jordan Peterson, your bed, et cetera,
Malcolm Collins: you know, muscle bros or like angry bros.
And there's not a lot of
Simone Collins: a lot of in between.
Malcolm Collins: Well, yeah, I don't feel like there's a lot of people who it's really easy to emotionally connect with.
Simone Collins: Well, here's the thing is ever since there was, there was a bit of a golden age of this, I think with like the early days of the daily show. And people like, who's that super flamboyant [00:02:00] conservative speaker with the hair, Milo, Milo Yiannopoulos.
Yeah. Like those were examples of people on each side of the political divide that didn't take themselves that seriously. And I think that's another thing that I really miss a lot is like, can we just
Malcolm Collins: stop taking everything so seriously? No, it is true actually. Yeah. Nobody really takes their thing as, as a, like a bit.
Anymore, you know, or
Simone Collins: now it's all my brand, but not even ironically, more just like actual, like spurging out about their big style. I don't care.
Malcolm Collins: No, I mean, it's something that we need to consider in terms of How we're doing videos because we do a juggling of different topic varieties in a
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago