I have seen this phenomenon across the world and across social classes.
Gen X and elder millennials tended towards the left as they aged.
But I do wonder if the consequence, to keep the weird equilibrium is that the younger generations are becoming far more fascist.
There was that other rule that supposed successive generations would become more liberal, but we are witnessing a reversal of that to puritan values, misogyny and nationalism.
There’s a lot going on with it. I’m gonna gloss over some things here and there but this is the basic trend as I understand it. A lot of it has to do with differing responses to the world getting worse and what different generations had at their disposal to explain it.
Currently there’s a lot of money being poured into propaganda aimed at pulling young people to the right. So where Gen Z had a lot of care put into making sure that blame was placed on like minorities and women for why their lives sucked, Elder Millennials didn’t really have that. We were a bit better educated on average since things hadn’t gotten as bad yet, and the propaganda machine hadn’t been as heavily invested into yet. So a lot of us were better equipped to identify that the root cause of the issues was capital accumulation.
I have seen this phenomenon across the world and across social classes.
Gen X and elder millennials tended towards the left as they aged.
But I do wonder if the consequence, to keep the weird equilibrium is that the younger generations are becoming far more fascist.
There was that other rule that supposed successive generations would become more liberal, but we are witnessing a reversal of that to puritan values, misogyny and nationalism.
There’s a lot going on with it. I’m gonna gloss over some things here and there but this is the basic trend as I understand it. A lot of it has to do with differing responses to the world getting worse and what different generations had at their disposal to explain it.
Currently there’s a lot of money being poured into propaganda aimed at pulling young people to the right. So where Gen Z had a lot of care put into making sure that blame was placed on like minorities and women for why their lives sucked, Elder Millennials didn’t really have that. We were a bit better educated on average since things hadn’t gotten as bad yet, and the propaganda machine hadn’t been as heavily invested into yet. So a lot of us were better equipped to identify that the root cause of the issues was capital accumulation.