X marks the spot
The adage that you'll grow more conservative as you get older is predicated on the assumption that you'll have some wealth to protect. You'll have your own little pile of plundered dwaren gold to curl around like a suburban detached single family home dwelling Smaug.
I don't feel that age has done anything but give me another two decades of reasons that capitalism needs to be burned at the stake. I'm on the bottom rung of GenX and have approximately jack shit in terms of traditional wealth (house, car, fat bag of weed)
I'd be curious to see if there's a very clear demographic fracture between support of more progressive candidates vs conservative ones as a matter of age. From exit polls I'm seeing that support for Bernie vs Biden flips between the 30-44 demographic and the 45-65 one. I'd be interested to see a more granular breakdown based on age to see where that break occurs. I suspect its actually a very narrow gap of years over which the chance of getting ahead dropped like a rock.