The older I get, the more liberal I become. How about you?

[TheKentuckian]

36. I'm not sure the spectrum just hasn't shifted under my feet.

Conservatism used to pull against liberalism but now the struggle is between conservatism and radical regressive reactionaries.

I have grown more anti-establishment but that is a reaction to systemic failure and ever deepening corruption, which moves me to be a bit of a radical because I am seemingly ever less tolerant of propping up systems captured to work against the common good, regardless if they represent the common asserted preference or not, Popularity is a poor substitute for function.

Another factor is that time is not kind to the rot around us. Every day aspects of our failed systems become harder to avoid, pretend away, or diligently and optimistically work around. As such, my instincts toward compromise are undercut by the sheer impossibility of such an arrangement not to make matters worse and far worse over time which means both tolerance for the opposition and the acceptance of engaging in such efforts diminishes.
Seeing what the right wing policies have wrought and the blowback from their worldview has made assimilation and adoption of such more and more unacceptable.

I lean heavily toward the ground moving versus people. I think often of Justice Stevens who retired the "liberal lion" of the Supreme Court that was appointed by a Republican and was himself a Republican, not that surprises and evolution don't happen but Stevens was of the impression that he had changed very little in his bent. Maybe he had more than he thinks but even accounting for personal blind spots I would argue a clear and very substantial rightward shift in the effective political spectrum.

I don't know when next a Stevens will be nominated much less confirmed. I'm pretty damn sure it would require at least 67 Democratic Senators and a hell of an arm twisting firebrand of a President.
The sad part is the swing right is still going. Remember how fucking wrongheaded and full of shit the Republicans were just 15 years ago? Think about how "awesome" it would be to have the government shutdown assclowns and Poppy and Dole now. Hell compare Junior Bush to the fuckwits they have now.
Take a look at our biggest policy proposals. Look at the perverse consensus on civil liberties.

Maybe you are more liberal but even if you were a moderate Republican a generation ago and didn't change much at all you might find yourself a fairly progressive Democrat now, maybe even a what passes for leftist today. If you used to be a moderately liberal Democrat and stayed the same ideologically then you are fringe now, at best.
There is no left radical influence on the spectrum but the right is roughly mainstream up to Ayatollah land and open fascism with no shortage of influence from across the fences with incredible range on the reach.