but as people grow older they get substantially more bitter and conservative

21 and conservative here. HUAHUAHUAHUAHUAHUAHUAHUAHUAHUA

Faggot.

>>2114020
Yea but you see those disgusting people in the footage from the 60s who were talking about they don't want niggers integrated into their school

Most of those people are still alive and are fucking republicans

>>2114023
oh sure, there will still be the idiot young conservative here and there. but they'll be in the minority anyway, and their votes will be ineffectively split between Ron Paul types and Sarah Palin types.

lol

Republicans are going to have to change if they still want to be relevant in a few decades.. old intolerant people will die out.

Santa gets ready to visit the old folks.

'My gift is death'

You are looking at Mike Huckabee conservatives. What you have to look for is Barry Goldwater conservatives. The argument over personal vs social responsibility is eternal and will never end. As you grow up and realize that the world doesn't run on happiness and rainbows you want to be allowed what you have earned. This means less government intervention/taxation.
Also, in the future we'll be old and worry about different social mores than right now.
Would you be ok with inter-species gene splicing? what about robot bodies or wholly disembodied humans on the internets?

>>2114220
>Would you be ok with inter-species gene splicing? what about robot bodies or wholly disembodied humans on the internets?

Yes, yes and yes.

<spoilers> old people don't vote for Republicans </spoilers>

lolololol you dont need a catcher when you play wii hahahahahaha

>>2114225

me too please, sounds awesome
i'd settle for awesome eagle eye-sight in the meantime though

>>2114322

I kinda lol'd hard, poor guy.

>>2114225
Christ, I know you would but there are a lot of people that wouldn't. There's people our age (22 here) that use their index fingers to type. How socially liberal do you think they would be? Do you really think they're going to go away? Also, 46% of the people voted for McCain.
Politics isn't a left to right, it's more of a square. I fall on the top left corner of this quiz. Where do you fall?
http://www.theadvocates.org/quizp/index.html

>>2114220
why do conservatives want more cops, a strong national defense and complain about the condition of the roads but dont want to put any of their money towards those ends?

>>2114354
what's wrong with typing with two fingers?

Can someone please tell me what's tolerant about banning smoking, cars, guns, drugs, alcohol, foie, furs and all the other things that make life worth living?

>>2114357
They pay for it gladly. They just don't want to pay for food stamps and other social welfare. Also, you need to stop thinking about politics in a left to right gradient. Read the descriptions on that quiz, you'll see what I mean.

>>2114368
Completely inefficient. Even if you can type faster than some people who use their whole hands your top speed is capped at a certain point whereas the people using their whole hands will continue to improve and will eventually type faster.

>>2114384
/thread

No liberals, you are the conservatives.
And then liberal was a zombie.

>>2114384
Don't forget guns, Liberals hate guns.

>>2114386

the bottle neck for me is mostly deciding what to type, not what im going to type. and i use my whole hands...except my thumbs.

>>2114468
He didn't forget guns, learn to read.

>>2114483
Weird, I just kinda skipped over it the first time.

This idea that in our modern society tolerance is widespread is silly. History repeats itself, and we will forever make the same mistakes. Human nature, etc.

Anyway, conservativism has less to do with being old and more about ideology. There are old Democrats too.

>>2114384
This is why I'm a 19 year old republican. Liberals tend to brandish the ban-stick whenever they have the opportunity, regardless of whether or not public opinion, statistics, and facts are against them. Just because you see no reason for someone to own something, doesn't mean they shouldn't be allowed to.

Guess who came up with the bright idea to allow subprime mortgage loans, in order to allow more people to get the homes they wanted?

There is a reason why 90% of college students are liberal, yet when they mature 40-45% of that number become conservative. Conservatism does actually make sense in a lot of ways.

>>2114469
If you take the time to learn to touch type it's really really worth it. You'll thank me. Plus you will feel proud of yourself for learning something new. Do it faggot.

I don't think that is a good swing. Should put more load on back leg.

When we're old, we're going to be convinced that the younger generation is fucking everything up. Or, as a man wiser than me put it:

"It only takes twenty years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea."
- Robert Anton Wilson

>>2114384
Where there are laws restricting the use of those things (other than foie or furs, who the hell is banning those?) it's because their use has potential to hurt or kill the people around you. Libertarians always go on about negative rights, well, I'd say the right not to be run over by a drunk driver is pretty high up there.

The laws on the books now aren't perfect, but they're at least trying to balance the rights of everyone concerned.

>>2114384
That's me. I thought I was a left wing until they started banning everything. Live and let live was my motto and I always put up with shit I didn't like because I reasoned that the shit I did was probably not liked by other people. Now I just hate everyone and hope all the moralfags die in excruciating pain.

>>2114509
Mr. Reasonable. Please give me a little argument in favor of conservativism. I'm an open minded young 19 year old who thinks he is a liberal. I am still learning about the world, and realize I don't know enough about this subject to make a wise decision.

>>2114509
Oh, yes, poor people made the banks fail. You just keep thinking that. Or, alternatively, lrn2mortgagecrisis.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/162789
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/53802.html

In the US, there is no social libertarianism movement like there is in europe. All we have is Ron Paulfags wanting to abolish the police and fire departments and replace them with private firms.

>>2114578
Seriously, sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who actually paid attention to what happened in Robocop.

I fall most exactly in the center on this test.
It's very beneficial to be centrist.

Soon the old liberals will be the new conservatives and the next generation of liberals will be some sort of neo-uber-liberals who walka round stark naked fucking each other in the ass and lining up for sex changes from herbal medicine doctors and protesting nonexistent wars and WHAT OF THEIR CHILDREN?!

>>2114626
They will be uber AWESOME, that's what.

>>2114626
It will be a generation of children raised by us.

>>2114620
I'm also fairly moderate, but I voted McCain to keep the democrats from taking control of everything. Forget compromise, our congress won't allow it.

>>2114578
This is what every libertarian wants. Only usually, it's not "private" but "communal".

>>2114384

This is the puritan spirit. Its what separates the anglos from those fun loving catholics, who don't give a fuck. Lets celebrate what has made us great- tasteless food, ugly sexless woman, plain beers, plainer churches, no nonsense wife beating men and very big guns.

Through life experiences we will all end up moving center eventually

Conservatives will simply turn into neoconservatives. They will care less about stupid bullshit like gay marriage and more about things that actually matter like capitalism.

I for one fucking hate liberal progressive leftist types, the hypocrasy, unrealistic thinking and vast hoardes of retarded troofers with their conspiracy theories about how the USA is ruled by evil imperialist capitalists drive me to the right.

>>2115016
Yeah, I'm pretty sure every country is run by money. That's not a conspiracy that's facts in front of your face.

if this is a troll then 8/10 for being believable

You underestimate the old. My great-grandmother is still going strong, and still referring to blacks as darkies and colored folk. I wish I could have seen her face the day Obama was elected.

Conservatism as far as social issues go make no fucking sense. Banning abortion, gay marriage, and so on are issues conservatives fight, and their arguments are never rooted in fact or logic.

However, conservatism as far as other things go makes sense. This is why a straight-liberal or straight-conservative government is bad. You need a mixture, checks and balances, etc.

>>2114012

Demographically, the country is getting older and older.

In other words:

YOU ARE WRONG.