I truly don't believe that everyone gets more conservative as they get older. When people are younger they'll often want to change systems to be more equitable and fair, and when they got older they had more to lose so they wanted to protect the status quo... but now that conservative movements have been co-opted by the alt-right in a lot of countries - most people want nothing to do with that.
I think it's also become more obvious with more exposure to global news and social media that maintaining the status quo really isn't sustainable, and so less people are happy with that too.
I feel bad for a lot of people that might have naturally leaned conservative that don't really have parties they can align with anymore.
I do honestly think a lot of countries would do a lot better with at least 5 roughly equally sized parties (far left, left, center, right, far right) and I really, really, really, really wish that voters would be really informed on policies of all parties and be ready to punish any parties that don't implement their promised policies once in power.
RE: My political leanings, 2026