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It does slightly blow my mind that people can, in one breath, insist that people never fundamentally change, that redemption is impossible, and then, in the next, insist that they believe they can learn things and how embarrassing they found their younger selves.
People don't change unless they want to but they can do it. Older people can learn things, older people can change how they live their lives.
I didn't say it was easy, but it happens. Your personality isn't set in stone.
@Homebrewandhacking True that. Some of my eldest did change. Sadly, to become far right extremists… 
People react to the environments they find themselves within.
If your environment is telling you a lot of quasi-fascist and hard right things then you are influenced by them.
Radicalisation is a complex process but nostalgia for better days of the past when everything was much better is part of them.
I remember parts of the 80s and 90s. They were very different and very similar.
People protested for what they believed and were ignored and mocked. From Greenham to Just Stop Oil.
@Homebrewandhacking For some years now, I have been writing my diary in the first person plural. The person writing it is not quite the same person who reads it later on. Younger-me writes for older-me. I find it easier to bear the mistakes and misfortune of my younger self when I read it years later