US Politics on Sidechat | I was talking to my dad about politics and I mentioned that I had pivoted on a lot of my positions in the last year and a half, such as gun rights and death penalty. And he said “the older you get, the more conservative you become” but I don’t feel (1/2)

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US Politics 2w

I was talking to my dad about politics and I mentioned that I had pivoted on a lot of my positions in the last year and a half, such as gun rights and death penalty. And he said “the older you get, the more conservative you become” but I don’t feel (1/2)

Anonymous 2w

More conservative at all, in fact quite the opposite. I feel like I’ve only been radicalized father to the left. I used to be a soft democratic socialist, no on death penalty, you don’t need a gun, and now I believe I’ve tipped over into revolutionary communism. Many crimes do deserve the death penalty, and that’s okay so long as you build a system that truly delivers fair and equal justice and no longer discriminates. People need to be able to defend themselves and their (2/2, whoops)

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OP 2w

Life, liberty, and property. That’s not a conservative position I feel, that’s a position of someone who is tired of bad things happening to good people, and while they cause their own injustices, there is a pragmatic necessity in some of these policies. (3/2)