Since joining this forum have you moved leftward or rightward?

[Middle-aged Europe]

More leftward, although it wasn't a complete u-turn.

For instance, I voted Green ("second vote") in both the 2002 and 2017 Bundestag election. However, back in 2002 it was still more of tactical vote since I lived in Saxony-Anhalt, the election was too close too call, and the SPD had a good shot at winning a couple of overhang seats (which they in fact did in the end) if you voted for the SPD direct candidate and for the SPD's then-coalition partner's state list. In 2017, the vote for the Greens was more a vote out of conviction and I also voted for the Green direct candidate. In the first election I ever voted - a city council election in 1999 - I also happened to vote for a FDP candidate because in my teenage years I still had a thing from them.

You know the old saying: If you're not a conservative when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a liberal by the time you're 35, you have no brain. (No need to correct me on that one, that was a deliberately ironic falsification.)