[Closed] Getting more left wing as you get older.

not me, getting further to the right the older i get.

i thought becoming more right wing was the observed norm.

It is.

Hence the 'it's all happening in reverse for me'

I have always been mostly left wing but with an intolerance of muppets.

I have always been mostly a muppet but with an intolerance of left wingers

- you and me are never going to see eye to eye, are we?

I've got a pair of Jackboots on next years Christmas list.

i thought becoming more right wing was the observed norm.

“The facts of life do invariably turn out to be Tory.”

“The facts of life do invariably turn out to be Tory.”

but civilisation is about overcoming brute instinct ?

I find myself becoming very slightly more tolerant of right wingers..

Why is it that people think Karl Marx wrote a book called "Das Kapital" - it's so easy to spot the phony lefties who claim to have "read it"...

Re: the post. It's working the other way round, for me...

My ability to goose step has stayed fairly consistent.

not me, getting further to the right the older i get.

+1

The longer I work in the NHS and for/around the most financially poor and vulnerable people in society, the more lefty I seem to get. So do I do this job because I am a bedwetting bleeding heart socialist, or have I become one by meeting and knowing so many people who have been screwed over by the actions of our last few governments?

I wonder whether if I got a nice job in the financial sector stoner and flashy could help put me straight. 😕

[b]ton:[/b]not me, getting further to the right the older i get.

well I never :o)

“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”

Why is it that people think Karl Marx wrote a book called "Das Kapital" - it's so easy to spot the phony lefties who claim to have "read it"...

Because the title is "Das Kapital: Kritik der politischen Ökonomie"

Not that I've read it in German mind you. I just read the English remake, which according to the critics was [i]nowhere[/i] near as good as the European-with-subtitles original.

was he the one with the curly hair and the hooter? He was my favourite 🙂

Yep, that's the one.

I could never understand why Groucho got involved in a car chase towards the end of the film, but given that Sandra Bullock played the love interest, who cares?

And having Tracy Chapman singing Talking 'Bout A Revolution as the end credits rolled was nice

Never.

I prefer to be a Dear Leader ...

I always wondered how they financed the film tbh.

you want o be the leader of maggots? my what lofty ambitions you have

but given that Sandra Bullock played the love interest

ah, the lovely Sandra [swoon]...

Junkyard - Member

I always wondered how they financed the film tbh.

you want o be the leader of maggots? my what lofty ambitions you have

It's called managing the maggot population ... pest they are.

[i]"I am beyond their timid lying morality, and so I am beyond caring."[/i]

😈

Though I care about Sandra... greatly.

The older I get, I'm realising that the terms left and right wing are far too generic. In some respects, I'm what would be termed 'right', yet very 'left' in other respects.

Have been left of centre all my adult life and continue so to be. My family are from south Wales and when I see the damage what right wing policies have done to the communities there, I am shocked that anyone could think that was/is a good idea. Saw much the same devastation when I was at university at Keele (Newcastle under Lyme and Stoke) and around Durham when I visited there.

i thought becoming more right wing was the observed norm

Yes growing up is the norm. 🙂

Meanwhile, in Scotlandshire, TJ is sitting on his hands, frantically trying not to post....

😉

Perhaps you should just post a misspelt wanted add in the guardian ?

Perhaps you should just post a misspelt wanted [i][b]add[/b][/i] in the [i][b]g[/b][/i]uardian ?

Double irony...! 🙂

CaptainFlashheart - Member

Meanwhile, in Scotlandshire, TJ is sitting on his hands, frantically trying not to post....

Nice one. 😀 and indeed 😆

You almost managed not to either eh Flashy? 😉

you dont fink[sic] it was intentional?
He is incapable of resisting a cheap dig despite his sense of loss

you dont fink[sic] it was intentional?

With your previous form when it comes to use of the English language? No, I don't think it was intentional.

😉

i'm increasingly left-wing/socialist, while at the same time increasingly in favour of dictators - as long as the dictator is me.

The older I get, the more stuff I own and the more fed up I am at lifes pitfalls the more right wing I become...

Not sure if I'm happy about that or not. Must stop reading my dads Daily Mail.

Scotlandshire

Will the hilarity never end?

fiar piont 😉

Definitely getting more leftwing with strong socialist leanings the older I get. Typical scouser I guess.

I don't think I have recovered from working with so many young Tories when I was in Guildford. I don't think I'd ever even met a Tory in Liverpool.

There was a 20 year old Tory councillor FFS!!!

Matt Furniss I think his name was. There was another called Sheridan Westlake, google him and you'll see the epitome of a typical foul young Tory. Truly vile...

“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”

I'm becoming more of an Anarchist. Which is a Liberal with added petrol bombs.

I don't think I'd ever even met a Tory in Liverpool.

I know quite a few Tory supporting scousers.

Maybe so, but I've never met one.

I was getting more right wing until this shower got in........

“The facts of life do invariably turn out to be Tory.”

Yep. The Tories get in & we're all shafted.

I'm getting more left wing as the harsh realisties of life (other peoples rather than mine) become more evident. Growing up in the south west in the 1980s there was no real debate or doubt over Tory policies like privatisation, selling council houses, closing down any industry that lost money for a two consecutive weeks, sucking up to America, watching millions of jobs go abroad and so on and now having lived in London for 20 years and met a few more people and witnessed the recession of the last three years and unwinding of the globalisation / financial services trick unwind, I think differently on all those issues.