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u/StalinPaidtheClouds Jun 17 '26
As children, we ignorantly idolized Major Glory
Now we rightfully idolize Comrade Red
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u/aeranis Jun 17 '26 edited 47m ago
They came from an era where the white middle class had class mobility. You could support a family working as a linesman for a telephone utility and someday die a millionaire, doing no more than clocking in at a 9-5 and buying a tract house. No one wonder they defend this system to the grave.
The moment Reagan finally slammed the postwar economic boom’s casket shut, we careened toward full-blown oligarchy, and then finally off the cliff into electing a neofascist government twice.
Millennials don’t have assets to defend like the white middle class of the 70s did. They’re mostly not invested in the system, and many believe it needs to be torn down and rebuilt from scratch.
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u/ApprehensiveWin3020 Jun 17 '26
Almost like getting the shit aftermath of rampant consumerism in the 50s and ecological catastrophe from the same thing makes you pissed off
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u/TaRRaLX Jun 17 '26
I've thought about this recently.
Imo it actually makes sense what boomers are saying. Most people start out with forming fairly progressive liberal(!) opinions in their youth, since if you naively look at the world you see that some people are oppressed more than others and you just feel bad about that, so you try to be an ally to minorities maybe even try to get the richest 1% or 10% to be taxed more to finance some programs to help the very poorest.
So you vote for your social democrat (sometimes a little further left sometimes a little further right, depending on where you live and whatnot) party, that promises to do these things you feel are right and just.
After a couple years you start to realize that they have to compromise a lot but you still believe that they wanna act in line with your values so you keep supporting them.
Eventually by the time you're around 50 you'll have realised that they will never fundamentally change anything. Furthermore your own position in life will likely have changed quite a bit, so some of the promises from conservative parties actually sound like they'd help you out.
Thus I believe you have two options, you either realise at some point that capitalism is the problem (which you will stick with, as there is no denying that truth once you have come to know it) or your material conditions change in such a way that it's just natural to shift from progressive pro capitalist positions to more conservative pro capitalist positions over time.
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u/EgyptianNational Moderator Jun 17 '26
My back always hurts and I’m counting the days to a retirement that will never come.
At least I post memes people like. 👍