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[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

The unspoken part about people growing more conservative as they grow older is the assumption that they're growing wealthier as they grow older. If everyone under 50 has lived paycheck to paycheck their entire lives they're not very likely to buy into trickle down Reganomics bullshit.