How old are current affairs/imho users

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There are not a lot of climate denial or right wing views on boards.

The fact is younger people will change their views once they grow up and get impacted by real life.

It is easy when you are young and not worried about buying a house, heating a house, feeding your family and finding a school etc.

When you actually are impacted by these things as you get older, you start to realise what you called right wing views are normal people who in no way surprisingly want to be able to support their family.

You will see in the green thread a handful of fanatics and a majority of people who call out the crap.

They are not climate deniars, they are people with life experience who call out nonsense ideas and who are impacted by paying for nonsense ideas.

You will see a handful of people on multiple threads accusing people of racism, being a nazi etc because people call out nonsense policies that impact them and their family.

These people mostly grow up and realise its not right wing to have views that benefit you and your family.

It is easy when you are young and have very view worries to call everything you disagree with right wing, but most have to grow up eventually and realise they had no idea what they were on about.

So to correct you, it is not that older people have right wing views, they have life experience and have views that make things the best for themselves and their family.

The majority of people who call these people right wing will join that group once they go through life and grow up.

I clearly stated the reason is self interest.

It's easy to shout climate deniar while your in your parents house not worried about bills.

It's competently different when you have to pay the bills and actually have skin in the game.

The majority of people I know who are left leaning in my age group live at home and still didn't enter real life.

There are also some very nice people I know who are soft touches but mean very well.

I suppose some older people have houses paid for and the family is grown up and they feel like helping people out.

So they are at a point in life that young people are where they are not worried about buying a house and affording a family.

There seems to be some evidence that suggests older conservatives and reactionaries are less well educated (or less intelligent in general) than even their own peers. So, it's not so much their age is the key factor in them becoming right wing and conservative, more their lack of critical thinking and ability to weigh things up from all angles.

That's some patronising response right there.

I see that the OP is either too young or suffering from old age memory issues. I remember times when it was impolite to add a poll without the obligatory "This poll sucks" option.

In any case, why do I think that this poll is meaningless? Because it has nothing to do with CA/IMHO. The users on Boards in general are mostly tech-savvy types of mature ages that started using forums in the 90s / 2000s. Them under 30 youngsters use TikTok now, or Reddit.

I doubt very much that it is a smaller number, I find the majority of people become more easy going as they age.

Life has shown them a lot, young people view things very black or white, older people with life experience realise there are more grey areas then black or white.

I’d agree with that much at least, but the point I was alluding to was the source of much of these studies - liberal academics in the social sciences. That’s who would draw conclusions about the relationship between a group’s political beliefs, their education levels, and their levels of intelligence.

That’s not to say that ‘conservatives’, or more accurately - reactionaries and shìt-stirrers, those who seek to deprive other groups in society of the same access to resources as they have which enabled them to be in the position they’re in, don’t employ the same tactics in suggesting evidence of a relationship between their opponents political views and their levels of intelligence. They do of course, but I wouldn’t classify those people as Conservative - that would imply they actually had principles, and I don’t believe they do. It’s how they are able to suggest that the people who they imagine are beneath them, that it is only right and proper to deprive them of access to resources which enable social mobility by maintaining the idea that one can pull oneself up by their own bootstraps by hard work alone.

It’s clearly not true, but it’s important that the belief is maintained, so they can implement policies which lead to outcomes like this:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-bus-pass-pensioners-warm-b2070395.html

It would take an equally special sort as Boris to point out that her individual carbon footprint is contributing to climate change 🤨

Summary based on the posts in this thread: young people are naive and stupid. Older people are old and stupid, unless they agree with me, which would be a sign of intelligence.

I drank some of the old "Wexford wine" last night and I'm dying as a result of it today.