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The reason older generations tell us that you get conservative when you get older is because that's what truly did happen for them. It's their genuine life experience.
They started off as young liberal hippies with only weed money to their name, and then as they got older and settled down they became wealthier, and surprise surprise, when you have wealth then you start acting and voting in ways which help you keep that wealth for yourself.
It isn't happening with younger generations in part because we're inherently more liberal but also in part because that wealth the older generations saw never appears.
I mean a system in which you grow rich as you grow older, no matter what (exceptions aside) would do that, and if that's the expectation you'll grow more conservative thinking children don't understand that everyone gets to have a good life "except the bad people" (in this case it can be both a genuine belief or a dog whistle) but if you contrast it to the world we have seen where wealth is hoarded by a select few and at an unprecedented scale you can grow jaded even if you do make wealth somehow unless you buy into the current right wing propaganda.