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The older I get the more I despise Nazis and the political right. I thought I was supposed to become more conservative as I got older, but now I'm a hippie (almost against my choice) and the only thing I can't stand the kids doing is bigotry in their dumbass social media.
"Conservative" means... to conserve. You (and everyone) gets more conservative as they age because you kinda want to conserve the status quo you, personally are used to.
Here's the thing: with social progress, what you want to conserve is different from what the generation before the progress wants to preserve.
You are a conservative, as in conserving, of the progress that we have achieved. The "conservatives" you refer to, the "political right", are not conservative. They are regressives, the opposite of progressives (though they might not like the connotation of that label, and will denounce it). These people would like to regress society to a time when these members of society had more consolidation of power (feudalism, fascism, racist/sexist segregation). Nothing "conservative" about that in terms of a human lifetime. In fact none of those people were around to experience what feudalism, fascism, segregation etc. was actually like. Many of these people may have been sold a lie by the 1% for the exclusive benefit of the 1%.