Comments on: Ability to Inhibit Prejudices Diminishes with Age http://www.lonegunman.co.uk/2009/11/16/ability-to-inhibit-prejudices-diminishes-with-age/ Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:29:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: david http://www.lonegunman.co.uk/2009/11/16/ability-to-inhibit-prejudices-diminishes-with-age/comment-page-1/#comment-2481 david Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:54:36 +0000 http://www.lonegunman.co.uk/?p=4161#comment-2481 Even without having seen this story, I was recently thinking the same thing myself. It's generally accepted that the older (and typically more wealthy) people get, the more conservative they vote. Surely the times have changed, but there's no obvious guarantee that the young people who currently love Obama and gay marriage will do so their whole lives. The thing I'd really like to see is an investigation of why older people are generally more conservative (if indeed that's even true). The obvious answer is that public morality has drifted left through time leaving the old behind, but this feels simplistic to me. Public disposition on economic issues has hardly flowed in any discernible direction. Even without having seen this story, I was recently thinking the same thing myself. It’s generally accepted that the older (and typically more wealthy) people get, the more conservative they vote. Surely the times have changed, but there’s no obvious guarantee that the young people who currently love Obama and gay marriage will do so their whole lives.

The thing I’d really like to see is an investigation of why older people are generally more conservative (if indeed that’s even true). The obvious answer is that public morality has drifted left through time leaving the old behind, but this feels simplistic to me. Public disposition on economic issues has hardly flowed in any discernible direction.

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