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Fewer young people are meeting these 5 milestones typically associated with adulthood
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Old folks don't complain and say that.
Conservatives do
Back when I was a wee lad growing uo in the mean fields of rural new england, the conservatives in power were loud and powerful. And older. Boomers and the their parents.
But they were also richer, and like any other rich powerful elitists, they blamed the poor people for their greed and unwillingness to pay
So of course old people were demonized for saying it was the kids not wanting to work. Wasn't. It was the elite.
There's more to it. Including the pretty standard past fact that people usually become more conservative as they age ( though i see that shifting as I age),
Buts its not old people its the musk and trump and Zuckerberg, etc..
That's why these people need distractions, culture wars , so they don't realize it's class warfare
The older people I know who vote Democrat complain all the time about how expensive everything is these days and nobody can afford anything.
The bullshit "Nobody wants to work" narrative is absolutely pushed by conservatives.
Thank you friend. Your are seeing truth.
Its class warfare at its most insidious
This one is absolutely bullshit tied to the accrual of wealth. People don't become more conservative as they get older, they become more conservative as they start to benefit more and more from the system, as was the norm up until about Gen X. People being worse off than their parents were at the same age absolutely has shifted the political leanings of generations (there's also the fact that each successive generation leans more leftist than the previous due to simple exposure to people and ideas that are different from you, but that's another topic).
I'm reminded of the wonderful video that the beautiful talking skull Shaun did about Harry Potter and JK Rowling a few years back. Specifically, the part about how you can watch her political stance change practically in real time as the books go on. The books start out raging against the machine, but as she began to gain wealth and benefit from that machine, it shifts towards supporting the machine until at the end Harry becomes a magic cop defending all the issues that were criticized in the early books and nothing fundamentally changes in society.
You're young. You also can't read. Because I also said that's changing.
Now continue feeling good about not knowing what yoyr talking about.
Most Conservatives aren't wealthy. Go ahead. Look.
It probably wasn't clear, but I was agreeing with you but expanding on the point. Because the science says that there's no correlation between age and leftists becoming more conservative and never has been, but there absolutely is with accrual of wealth. In the past, these were largely the same thing. That's why it seems like people aren't becoming more conservative as they get older anymore. Because the paths to wealth have largely disappeared.
And of course most conservatives aren't wealthy, but if you look at them for just a short time (especially in the US), you'll see that they don't think of themselves as poor - they're just "temporarily displaced billionaires" who will make it big any day now and then they'll own the boot rather than be squashed under its heel. Or they're just bigots. There's always that option.