I Hate It When These Obnoxious Fucks Are Right.

[Angrboda]

A study we read in a women's studies course in college made the point that women become more politically conservative as they get older.  I suspect the same holds true for men.  More active politically and more conservative.  There's an observation hiding in there just waiting to be made.

Worth noting that what is viewed as radical today is likely to become the orthodoxy 30/40 years down the road..in the transition between a persons busy twenties and their nothing-to-do-but-vote sixties.  One of the amusing paradoxes of conservatism.  Upholding the changing norms of successive generations.

If I understand you correctly, I'd have to say no, as conservatism is more than just what positions you support as it is the underlying rationales for supporting them. I don't think it's just radical opinions aging out until they become the norm. But then, I no longer have access to the study to say for certain what they actually were saying.