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If you’re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative by the time you’re 35, you have no brain.
In today's environment (and as I learn more about history - really for most of US history) - I would go with "If you are a conservative, you have no heart."
Different parties. Different times. Different meanings of the same word.
There is no reason to become conservative with age. All the things that conservatism claims to improve in life never does, and in fact creates the exact opposite of the claimed effect. This is why we have more gulags than USSR ever did, and more homeless than under any authoritarian regime.
My alt right colleague would claim that it's because authoritarian regimes would kill the homeless and wouldn't need gulags.
Sprinting left since my late forties here...