• explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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    9 hours ago

    90% of my millennial friends have been voting for the status quo for decades too. We’ll see how progressive they are once they’re the most conservative ones in the room, and they aren’t oh so painfully forced to vote for the status quo.

    • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      This oversimplified dichotomy is asinine. No group of people are some monolithic Borg mind. These types of tribalism are toxic useless. Russians would call it convenient idiots. It is tribalistic dogma revealing poor fundamental logic skills typical for a culture derived from the inbred Puritan penal colony European rejects.

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        7 hours ago

        It’s because America uses “first past the post” voting. Look it up. If you immediately realize that no honest intelligent person would support that, you’d be right.

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      6 hours ago

      We’ll see how progressive they are once they’re the most conservative ones in the room

      Ah yes the popular myth of becoming more conservative as you get older. It used to be true because you would get a job, have a family, and retire. Suddenly your biggest concern became lower taxes so you could spend that money elsewhere. Rest of the country be damned.

      Except now significantly less people are doing those things because they have a lot less money than their parents did.

      All growing old has done is made me way more left. I can see and understand so much more about how the world is fucked up.

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        6 hours ago

        Me too. I’m saying that they’re currently being dishonest about supporting progressive values, not that they’ll change.