I don’t mean at an individual level - I meant at a societal level. The idea has always been that younger generations become increasingly open minded and liberal as time goes on and that we’d reached a tipping point where tribal, bigoted views could never be the majority again.
That was a HUGE mistake of complacency, and quite possibly a fatal one for multicultural democracy.
Ah, I misunderstood. Yeah, there was an assumption that Z and Alpha would be more and more progressive, but not enough people paid enough attention to the capture of large parts of those groups by conservatives.
Huh? It’s always been considered the opposite.
I don’t mean at an individual level - I meant at a societal level. The idea has always been that younger generations become increasingly open minded and liberal as time goes on and that we’d reached a tipping point where tribal, bigoted views could never be the majority again.
That was a HUGE mistake of complacency, and quite possibly a fatal one for multicultural democracy.
Ah, I misunderstood. Yeah, there was an assumption that Z and Alpha would be more and more progressive, but not enough people paid enough attention to the capture of large parts of those groups by conservatives.