My maternal grandparents who raised me got increasingly less conservative as they got older. They went from being anti-birth control Catholics to feeling like the law shouldn’t try to heavily restrict abortion.
They were pro civil rights including gay rights. I don’t think they would have considered gay marriage a possibility when young, but my grandmother was overjoyed to see her son get to marry his long term partner.
Granted they were always fans of the New Deal so economically they did just stay consistent. They liked strong social safety nets as long as you didn’t really call it communist. Austerity and trickle down made them hopping mad.
My grandmother is very displeased with the last election, she was a huge fan of Obama.
I also feel that I’ve opened up as I got older even starting from a progressive place . I expect to become further open as the world changes.
