Traditionally, people get more conservative as they get older because they acquire more that they can lose, because unrest - even for a good cause - endangers that. Even if not consciously, their opinions change, defensively, around that. Not even necessarily material goods, though those are a major factor. Spouses, children, social circles.

You know, things and connections that our generation and the generation after us has less and less of. Dating rates dropped. Birth rates dropped. Social circles obliterated and any attempts to revive them crucified on a capitalist cross.

Look at us! The generation who owns nothing and has less to lose every day!