"Politically conservative" does not mean "set in one's ways."
--- On Tue, 7/7/09, Bill Bartlett <billbartlett at aapt.net.au> wrote:
> From: Bill Bartlett <billbartlett at aapt.net.au>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Americans say they're moving right
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 1:03 AM
>
> Looks like it falls to me to point out that the the subject
> header is inconsistent with the story, Americans becoming
> more conservative doesn't equate with them moving to the
> right, as the subject header asserts.
>
> In fact the survey results don't even mean that the
> American population on the whole is becoming more
> conservative, it only indicates that individual Americans
> believe they are becoming more conservative.
>
> Hardly a revelation. Individuals usually do become more
> conservative as they get older, its a biological imperative.
> When we are young, we are open to new ideas a lot more,
> because we know nothing and have no ideas, we are a blank
> sheet. Then we learn and develop opinions about things,
> which means we are slightly less open to new ideas, because
> we have already formed opinions. As we get older, our brains
> become less agile and its harder to understand new ideas.
>
> Which is to say, more conservative.
>