system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Do people actually become more conservative as they get older and if so, why?
gpt
"It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea" - Robert Anton Wilson  

Times change, if people don't change with them then their beliefs will become more dated and therefore, often, conservative.  It's not an inevitability but it  is likely.