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.
I’m curious about the generation that came of age during the Depression, but I don’t think we have polling data that far back.
The generation that came of age in the depression voted for FDR 4 times and gave him supermanorites in Congress.
They rewrote the American social contract.
They were left of the generation before and the generation after.
I am hoping Mamdani is our FDR.
Sadly, he cannot run for president. He was naturalized, not born a citizen.
And yet, we got Elon running DOGE and unilaterally breaking into the treasury without oversight. Trump wasn’t supposed to be able to hold office after his January 6th insurrection. The rules don’t mean much, if they aren’t enforced.
Hmm seems to be a repeating pattern.
That’s the best case we can hope for at this point.
From what I’ve seen, research and habits wisez those that grew up in the depression tended to be thrifty for life, always planning meals and avoiding waste. It was a hard habit to break after being hungry I’m sure. I haven’t seen anything about their political leaning. I think community and helping people rated highly in values. Both sides of American politics would claim that as their values.
Let’s not forget that FDR, essentially the closest thing the US has had to a socialist president, was elected four times to help dig us out of that mess. He was so fucking popular.