• OldWoodFrame
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    4 months ago

    The latest iteration of the same “younger people more left wing” article newspapers have been writing for 60 years.

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      4 months ago

      Except that that is slowly no longer being the case.

      Millennials where promised we get more conservative over time and for many the opposite appears true. Even gen x is in many ways already more left wing then the boomers.

      To me it appears as the boomer generation was fed so much propaganda after the war it became ingrained in society, it took a few generations to finally get it out our system but it is starting to happen. The kids will be alright.

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        4 months ago

        I’ve thought a lot about it these past several years and I agree with you. Boomers were so propandized before there were any protections that they had no choice but to be narcissistic and materialistic.

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        4 months ago

        that is slowly no longer being the case

        Proceeds to agree with the comment that young people are more left

        Did you accidentally a word there? Cuz you agree with the guy you’re responding to.

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          The comment above indicated that this is the same old story as it always been. It had a reminiscent of the myth that you become more conservative with age. The way i see it, this is not the case, times are changing and in many ways they are already different.

          So yes i agree that in effect young people are more left but it has nothing to do with biological age. The next generation after z may have a serious chance of being free from the cycle, being about as left as their parents.

          I think a more fair statement then “the young are more Left” would be “postwar propaganda made people anti-left witch became part of intergenerational trauma.” This is evidenced by how the word socialism can already trigger people into becoming upset, that is not normal.

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