I've grown far more compassionate, far more patient, and far more liberal as I age. Just not always at the same time.

Considering how many people I know who were raised in non-religious environments that later became Bible beaters, I can see that being true.

I have been taking precautions early in life to not become a herp/derp in my older years.

One thing I have found is that many people go with the surroundings and don't like to show different opinions.  As soon as they move to a largely herp/derp area they herp/derp with the rest of them.

Yeah, me too.  Looking back on it, I've actually moved from center-right to center-left over the years.

But really, if WND thinks that Millenials and the kids after us are all going to age into tea partiers, they're REALLY high on crack.

Yeah I'm still registered republican, only because I never bothered to change it. And I like to fark with the primaries.

Grand_Moff_Joseph: Yeah, me too.  Looking back on it, I've actually moved from center-right to center-left over the years.

But really, if WND thinks that Millenials and the kids after us are all going to age into tea partiers, they're REALLY high on crack.

It does seem to be their thought process though..... "These kids will just turn 40 and magically become homophobic and paranoid!".

I heard somewhere ( I think NPR) that your tastes kind of freeze at a certain age. So if, for instance, you have tried sushi by age forty, you'll never like it.

I am not sure how this applies to the discussion at hand, but I thought it was interesting.

Retirement is for losers. Producers do what they love till the day they die.

Znuh: I've known two friends, who have done the magical herp/derp flip to Fox News and the echo chamber.

I can only assume it's the same as any kind of propaganda; it shoots for the weak and infects the mentally feeble. The trick is getting them out of it - anything that's instantly digestible and filled with truthiness is bound to find a handful of marks.

The one constant in life is change. If you haven't developed the skills to be flexible (or learned critical thinking), you got off the bus a long time ago.

My M-I-L has done that; it is no doubt part-and-parcel of her joining an evangelical megachurch and (I'm sorry to other Republicans that do not share this view) her previously-latent racism brought to the surface by the President's skin color. She's constantly peppering me with questions about "why isn't the mainstream media talking about this thing on Fox?" I just respond by looking up whatever FNN put out, finding the source blog from which they get their "journalism" and read to her the updated, corrected version.

Actually they seem to have stopped challenging me with crap like this lately.  At least she hasn't decided that the earth is only 6,000 years old.

Like Grumpy Cat, I'm pretty sure I always have and always will be confused and annoyed by a large chunk of the population and I do not see that changing. Just might get more violent later on in life at repeated requests that I join in on watch singing and dancing competitions on television.

WhackingDay: Fox News is the single most scary thing I can think of these days. It's creating a frightening segment of our population that simply will not listen to anything that contradicts their world-view.

It applies to both sides. The echo chamber doesn't care if it's a Rapeublican or a Fascist. Neither side is willing to think that something else is possible.

Only by realizing that both parties are evil will the echo chamber fail.

Znuh: JohnBigBootay: Yesterday my ninety year old mother, who raised me to be tolerant, fair, honest and thoughtful, informed me that Obama's campaign was financed entirely by the taxpayer and Romney had to foot the bill all by himself.

Ugh. It's like Rupert finds this latent asshole switch in people and sends out the signal through Fox News.

He must be totally bypassing the mammalian brain and going to straight to the selfish crocodile derp section.

Smeggy Smurf: Retirement is for losers. Producers do what they love till the day they die.

My dad's retired. He kayaks. I don't think he does anything else. If you pick a profession where you spend half your life looking forward to retirement then that really sucks.

/will make movies till I drop dead

Yep. When I was young I believed I'd be okay as long as I was simply a good person and was nice/courteous to other people and lived a decent life. BOY! Was I wrong!

_{/no, I didn't RTFA from WND}

Mugato: Smeggy Smurf: Retirement is for losers. Producers do what they love till the day they die.

My dad's retired. He kayaks. I don't think he does anything else. If you pick a profession where you spend half your life looking forward to retirement then that really sucks.

/will make movies till I drop dead

Fair enough. If he's that much into kayaking he could teach if it he felt like it. That's not a job, that's doing what you love.