They all love to claim that there are the wonderful agents of change, meaning their actions are willful conscious choice and they are proud of it. Years later, they tend to say, "No we had no choice. We were just part of huge tide we cannot control."
Every generation resorts to the same argument to whitewash their liberal past.
This isn’t even liberal. It’s illiberal.
Insightful. Another way to say it, “Any man who is not liberal at twenty has no heart. Any man who is not conservative at forty has no brain.”