[wpietri]

I'm suspicious of the "made conservative" notion there. If someone's devotion political point of view A is so shallow that some people being irritating is enough to change them to B forever, I suspect they were always a dispositional B.

Young people getting conservative as they get older is nothing new. As Douglas Adams wrote:

“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”

And that's for something as neutral as tech. The older people get, the more they get out of the status quo. My dad jokes that he got a lot more conservative when his bank account had something in it.