the Overton window shifts

That’s how you end up with Bill Maher, who prides himself on his liberal bona fides, is sure that the changes he fought for needed to happen but also that this new generation just goes too far, and completely fails to see that the people he fought against in the 60s and 70s followed the same process as him and ended up in the same place as him.

As someone who just turned 43, I find this quite interesting and relatable.

I mean, if anything I’m getting actively more leftist as I get older, but I do find myself nonplussed when it comes to gender identity and such. Not to the point where I’m against it, obviously, but I do have to work harder to try to understand people who aren’t in my immediate field of experience. If I was less invested in trying then I can imagine that I’d end up being one of those grumpy old pricks who used to be with it before they changed what it was. But ultimately the attitude I take is that how younger people want to present themselves to the world has absolutely fuck all to do with me, and as long as they’re trying to make themselves happy then all power to them.

On an entirely different level, it’s like bitching that all modern pop music sucks. The music doesn’t (generally) suck, you’re just not the target any more.

People don’t get more conservative as they age … the Overton window shifts left and leaves them behind.

aka “Cant wait until you’re dead”.