>>It's funny you should say that Evan. I see the opposite ocurring. I know quite a few people that were hard core liberals (Democrats who were very liberal in their thinking) in college, 20s, and 30s but in their 40s became almost right-wing conservatives. The reason could be argued from both sides.
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>Stats show that people tend to become more conservative as they age, but rarely completely change the basic core values. In otherwords libersls become slightly more conservative liberals.

I agree with that. I also think that, over time, the definition of liberal has changed (unfortunately for the worse) so that those views which were once liberal are now considered mainstream/conservative and that those views once considered radical are now merely liberal.