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At age 18, a particular 7 students in a class are "liberal" and 3 are "conservative" (70/30%). In their 20s, one liberal commits suicide due to harassment about being LGBTQ (66/33), in their 30s one liberal dies from a drug overdoes (62.5/37.5), in their 40s one liberal dies from a workplace accident (57.1/42.8) and in their 50s on liberal dies from lack of health insurance (50/50). At their 40th high school reunion, half of the class is republican. "Oh, ya, people get more conservative as they get older." No one changed their position, yet looking at just the percentages, people would think that this phrase is true.
This is why the one time democrats got the trifecta, they pushed through healthcare reform. This is why democrats (should be/are) for workplace safety, drug decriminalization and drug treatment de-stigmatization, mental heath reform and LGBT "it gets better" initiatives. Democrats literately have been dying at a higher rate than the WASPs, and loosing this demographic warfare. Now things are turning around and people are surprised that democrats are winning the under 50s now, but it has been a multi-decade project to get to this point.
You are absolutely going to need to provide a source for this claim. I can already imagine some nutjob twisting this statement from "people who live longer tend to be conservative," into "people who are conservative tend to live longer!"
I could just as easily take this hypothetical class reunion and say "well one conservative died at 30 from accidentally shooting himself, one conservative died at 40 from being antivax and getting COVID, and one conservative died at 50 from lack of health insurance (everyone needs health insurance)."
You said it facetiously but in reality COVID really did kill almost 50% more conservatives than liberals.
Conservative governments around the world made the connection that a virus that mostly killed old people was going to be bad news for their polling if left uncontrolled. Only in the US did conservatives seem to do not only the exact opposite, but added anti-mask, anti-lockdown and anti-vaccination on top - as if they were trying to get their voters killed.
Biden beat Trump by 10,000 votes in Georgia. Thanks antivaxxers!