Are you letting the opinions of people on social media factor into this thinking?
Democrats in office are certainly not governing as would someone on the far left would
Are millennial leftists aging into right-wingers?
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Are you letting the opinions of people on social media factor into this thinking?
Democrats in office are certainly not governing as would someone on the far left would
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This has been clearly and forcefully debunked already in this thread and folk still repeating it like it's gospel truth. Just look at the graphs if nothing else.
Pew Research polling shows that Millennials are actually becoming more liberal, not more conservative, as they age:
The Generation Gap in American Politics
Generational differences have long been a factor in U.S. politics. These divisions are now as wide as they have been in decades, with the potential to shape politics well into the future.www.pewresearch.org
"From immigration and race to foreign policy and the scope of government, two younger generations, Millennials and Gen Xers, stand apart from the two older cohorts, Baby Boomers and Silents. And on many issues, Millennials continue to have a distinct – and increasingly liberal – outlook."
Looking at other data and historical trends, Data for Progress believes that millennials will become slightly more conservative as they hit certain key generational moments, but the trend will be miniscule and nothing like past generations, in part because the capitalist class is helping to ensure that millennials by and large aren't getting to join them in the ruling class of traditional republicans and right-wing pro-capitalist democrats.
Progressives Control the Future
Over the next decade, as millennials reach middle age and begin turning out to vote at a higher rate, they will create a unique opportunity for progressive policymaking.www.dataforprogress.org
"Looking beyond the formative years, there are several cultural, economic, and demographic factors that make it unlikely that we will see a large rightward shift among millennials any time soon. Millennials are getting married and having kids later than past generations, thereby delaying key life events which tend to cause voters to become more conservative. Millennials lag behind past generations in accumulating wealth, and their prospects for future wealth accumulation do not look great, removing yet another factor that can drive voters to become more conservative over time.
Millennials also lag behind past generations in home ownership and face soaring housing costs relative to their income. For the bottom of the income distribution, this is largely explained by stagnant wage growth. But for the higher end of the income distribution, whose wages have grown significantly, this is explained entirely by rising housing prices. Policies to favor housing wealth have been implemented over the past several decades, and the housing share of national income has nearly doubled over that time period. These policies are designed to inflate house prices, and the fact that now many well heeled young professionals still can not afford to buy a home is proof that they work as intended. From a political perspective, this means that a demographic that would have been likely Republicans in generations past is now largely shut out of homeownership and therefore are less likely to move rightward.
Increasing home prices, high returns on stocks, free flowing credit, and mass incarceration acted as substitutes for the large social safety nets that are typical in rich countries. But this approach relies on maintaining a base of middle class voters who are dependent on perpetuating this system. The policies that created a bloc of older voters who use the political system to fiercely defend the value of the assets they hold also created a bloc of asset-less younger voters who have no stake in an economic system that suppresses their wages and piles them with educational and consumer debt in order to fuel growth in asset prices. In fact, the current moment in politics gives us a window into an alternate version of history. Without rising home and stock prices, it is easy to imagine that middle class voters would never have tolerated the tepid economic growth and abysmal wage growth that have typified the neoliberal period.
Politics is now dominated by a new social class of petty capitalists, which includes a large number of older blue collar workers who depend on seeing returns on their property for financial security. At the opposite end of the political spectrum, a new class of grand proletarians is emerging; well educated young professionals who do not own property and whose fears of downward mobility are driving their demands for the US to adopt some semblance of social democracy. Combined with the fact that millennials are the most diverse and best educated generation at a time where racial justice movements are gaining momentum and partisanship is sorting along the lines of racism and xenophobia; we have a perfect storm for producing the stark and completely unprecedented age polarization that exists in politics today."
how would explain the large amount of fascists and authoritarians on the coli dot coli?
I would imagine most of the posters are millennials
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What does this even mean?
I don't
Their actions aren't consistent with their words.
Is that confusing to you?
Are you going to provide examples?
One of the bigger liberal activists here is married to a conservative. A large portion of their friend circle are conservative.
Conservativism isn't off putting to them in the way their rhetoric or polling suggests.
Your problem is that you don't realize Dem politicians don't reflect the views of Dem voters. That's a very quick way for people to feel like their votes don't matter.
I work in a wealthy part of the country. My colleagues are all outspoken progressives, yet live in isolated white communities, and speak about lower income areas with derision. One, when she discusses her children moving to New York City, proudly describes the neighborhood as gentrified. They travel outside of the country often, live extravagant lives, many have more than one home, yet when their taxes increase or they're forced to cut back even slightly on their extravagance they act as if some great injustice has been done to them.
I mean, if they're voting Democrat then whatever. I just find it interesting.
They actually kinda do. There’s a silent majority who aren’t anti capitalist for example and aren’t completely isolationists. The Bernie camp played themselves. Not to mention how diverse the political factions are
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Polls don't reflect that, sorry. shyt like $15 minimum wage is a layup across party lines. Dems ran on it in Georgia, said if you give us the Senate, we'll do it. Well, they got the Senate.
Nothing new, just the typical pendulum effect.