The young are generally more liberal because they haven’t experienced the adult world—the real world. Schools and college are worlds unto themselves, and they bear little resemblance to life in the adult world. Even though college-aged people are technically adults, they don’t generally have experience working, paying taxes, raising a family, etc. that is part of what I call the adult world.
That is why we should take the leftist meme that young adults are pro-homosexual or socialist with a grain of salt. These “adults” will wise up once they make contact with the real world outside the ivory towers of academia.
Unless they coagulate in “adults” cesspools, like here in MA. Then they stay “adults” forever, never graduating to actual adults.
The kind of mockery heaped upon a person who takes the side of conservative thought, is similar in every way to the kind of taunts and muttered threats once, and until only very recently in the history of this country, heaped upon those Americans of African descent, children and grandchildren of those who were forcibly imported as slaves, unwilling immigrants, but with offspring born on American soil.
Conservatives are also American citizens, let us not forget that. Whether by birth, or by naturalization, they are every bit as protected by the 14th Amendment as those former slaves.
This constant denigration by self-identified “liberals” of others for their beliefs, demonizing honesty and industrious application of effort, and mocking their religious and moral beliefs, is unconscionable and logically, is in direct conflict with their own avowed allegiance to the principle of tolerance.
But duplicity has never been a burden for some folks.
“If you’re not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”
W. Churchill