Sellouts now have study to cite.

As I've pointed out before (and others have stated for more eloquently and substantially) student loans, healthcare costs, mortgages and so on are all engineered to make you buy into the status quo, failing to do so harms your safety and financial security. However if you ignore all context the idea that as we get older we drift to the right can be explained away as "wisdom" as the sellout in this article about how middle aged people tend to misjudge how left wing their ideas are.

Perhaps most noteworthy is this statement:

In his paper, Dr Rockey suggested that this was due to the fact that "people compare themselves not to the population as a whole but to the people they know"

So the worldview we are presented with every day is the one we compare ourselves too? Its interesting that extremely right wing paper The Telegraph has seized on the conclusions to claim how great being right wing is but don't strangely don't report on the fact that political context affects one's views.

Then again maybe I'm drifting to the right because I'm agree with one of the comments posted after the article:

The problem is a lot of people are neither "left" or "right" wing. They are just "trendy" and would frankly follow Orville the Duck's political manifesto if they deemed it cool enough. Think for yourself, not just within the tramlines of others.

D Dortman, Durham