Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
Couldn't agree more…and before the shouts of ‘pilot’ and ‘rear gunner’ predictably begin from those who invariably fall over themselves to agree with each other over such issues, here’s a thought.

There was a letter to the Guardian - originally from around fifty odd years ago I think - suggesting that people tend to shift to the Right as they get older. It also noted that the average man over the age of 25 loses around one million irreplaceable cells of grey matter every day, suggesting perhaps that such moves to the Right may - not unlike osteoarthritis - be a further example of a degenerative condition.

Before the three degrees explode with righteous indignation I will add at this point that this comment was largely tongue in cheek. ‘Just joshing’ in AF speak…food for thought though.
But of course Grauniad readers do not lose these cells in such numbers?

It's fair to say people move right with age, I'd agree and see it all over the country. Mainly because as young idealists they by and large dont have much in the way of assets and so would be winners in any redistribution of wealth. The older you get and the more assets you acquire, the more you become a loser in wealth redistribution.

So simple self preservation move people rightward and it takes an unusual type of person to buck this trend.

Doesn't explain why the have nots move that way, but perhaps they don't: or maybe in some cases they already were there.