Right?

The older I get, the more I realize how much I've been screwed by the older generations, and because of that, my positions on issues have sort of "forked", having both a "what I think should reasonably be our course of action as a democratic republic" and "what I'd do if I were supreme overlord"...but both of those forks skew further left now than they did when I was in my teens.

Grim acceptance of the reality of our current sad state of affairs has led some of my "do what's feasible and don't let the perfect become the enemy of the good" positions to be fairly moderate...but for every one of those positions, there's a "supreme overlord" opinion that basically consists of "they're a blight upon mankind and should be dragged through the streets to a public place where they're thrown in a pillory for a day or two then hanged, with their assets liquidated and the funds used to undo their damages".