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In reply to the discussion: Getting more conservative as you get older? [View all]Warpy
(111,255 posts)rather than the way you think it should be. Oh, you've still got enough left of the starry eyed idealism you had at 20 that if the opportunity presents itself, you'll definitely work for positive change. However, you know that most of the time, you'll just have to take what you can get and make the best of it.
It's not that you're suddenly appreciative of conservatism or any of its screwball ideas, you just know for the time being, you're going to have to try to live in spite of them.
I'm ancient and my ideals get more radical every single year. Should the opportunity present itself, I'd gleefully turn conservative America upside down and inside out and laugh at their discomfort, they've certainly been amused by mine. However, I know that the opportunity is not likely to present itself so I'm going to take what I can actually get.