Texas Attorny General bans Pride

[Frustration]

the information silos required to maintain a conservative outlook are entered into willingly. They do so because they prefer ignorance that will never challenge or ask anything of them to even the slightest measure of acknowledging things in the world they did not experience as a child.

*Everyone* has been retreating into echo chambers for as long as I've been alive; improvements in communication technology have only made the problem worse for the past generation or so.

[McAvoy]

I think that gets at why a lot of liberals become small-c conservatives as they age, but not really life long conservatives. If you start at a conservative mindset then a lot of your thinking becomes devoted to the notion that the world as it existed when you were growing up (or at some hazy point in the past) is Good and Proper and must have been the way it was for good and proper reasons. And since most things in society take forms that perpetuate an existing social hierarchy, they get invested in that hierarchy itself and their own place in it.
And that’s where lifelong conservatives become easy fodder for proto-fascistic cults.

This pretty much follows many things. It's much easier to drift than to do a flip in idealogy.

It all about your own personal world view that was molded by your upbringing, location, experiences etc. Really hard to go against something that you have known all your life.

Take your pick, religion, politics etc.

[Frustration]

Old people tend to stick with whatever worldview they adopted while young, and thus superficially appear 'conservative'. Young people tend to soak up whatever nonsense is popular around them, and thus superficially appear 'liberal', in the sense of not being 'conservative'.

We need to face facts and acknowledge that most people are just plain dumb, no matter what age they are.

[hammerofglass]

Old people tend to stick with whatever worldview they adopted while young, and thus superficially appear 'conservative'. Young people tend to soak up whatever nonsense is popular around them, and thus superficially appear 'liberal', in the sense of not being 'conservative'.

We need to face facts and acknowledge that most people are just plain dumb, no matter what age they are.

So by this definition somebody who has consistently been, for instance, an advocate for unions since the 60's is a conservative? But someone who started today is a liberal?

[Frustration]

Part of my point is that those terms have long ceased to be descriptive in any meaningful way, and have become mere labels. Classical liberalism has an honorable, centuries-old pedigree. Is a classical liberal a conservative, or a liberal, in today's usage?

[hammerofglass]

Hey back on original topic does anybody know what ended up happening? He threatened, the district said they'd ignore him, I can't find any followup reporting.

[Draco Dracul]

Old people tend to stick with whatever worldview they adopted while young, and thus superficially appear 'conservative'. Young people tend to soak up whatever nonsense is popular around them, and thus superficially appear 'liberal', in the sense of not being 'conservative'.

It's not really the case it's more that people that are well off start as conservative and then live longer because they can afford to live.

[Frustration]

Hey back on original topic does anybody know what ended up happening? He threatened, the district said they'd ignore him, I can't find any followup reporting.

The obvious conclusion is that's exactly what happened, and nothing noteworthy has occurred since then.