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.
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.