Millennials are bucking trends, becoming an increasingly progressive voting bloc and rewriting the long-held rules of politics, writes Isabella Higgins.

Millennials are bucking trends, becoming an increasingly progressive voting bloc and rewriting the long-held rules of politics, writes Isabella Higgins.

      • MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.worldEnglish
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        3 days ago

        I doubt it.

        Gen X Features Musk, Bezos and Joe Rogan. Can’t think of any significant leftists ATM (I could if I took more time and didn’t have confirmation bias for the purposes of this response, lol). AOC & Mandahmi…Millenials.

        Note: I’m Gen X.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 days ago

      Me too, but half my senior class has gone bugfuck MAGA. That’s why I left FaceBook in 2016 or so.

    • 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 days ago

      Atari Gen here . Born in 1980. I’m in rural Tennessee. Started out super right… As I’ve gotten older I’ve moved further and further left.

      My political views these days are summed up by this…

      I want my gay married neighbors and their adopted trans kids to be able to defend their land and their legal pot plants with full auto imported ak47s. And of course if something happens… they can go to the hospital and use their universal health care.

      It goes a little further than that… it that’s a good start.

      • eureka@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        4 days ago

        I know a few people in rural US who made the jump from a super right US Libertarian position in late-teens/early adulthood all the way over to Marxist positions. I’m not certain, but I suspect that the US Libertarian and Republican mindsets are often normalised there so people are raised with them by default, but a lot of the underlying ideas that validate the US Libertarian position, like individualism and “freedom”, work better as abstract ideas and tend to break down upon inspection. Most of the additional freedoms of the US don’t matter when people don’t have the money, health and other resources to make use of them. It just allows the rich and powerful to trample the rest.

    • MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Me too…but we’re outliers.

      SO many people who I thought were cool turned out to be morons…an alarming amount of them were radicalized in the pandemic. Even many of the people I know that think they’re devout leftists seem to feel they need to have one or more “edgy” views that cause them to caucus with radical centrists or right wingers. Like…my bi hippie friend started voting conservative because Palestine…my own lefty brother started voting conservative because of guns. Just found out a very poor ex girlfriend voted conservative because of right wing views on addiction. Then you have all the insane tankies…if you explained horshoe theory to them their heads might explode from the cognitive dissonance.