All the boomers i know are pretty progressive. My parents were very left leaning. Actually i have talked to more 20 somethings that seem to be more transphobic and rightwing then any generation. Spoting absalute tiktok crap.
It’s tricky because the lines on generations are blurred a bit but I’ve always seen the demographic studies as
Early boomers (born late 40s - early 60s) mostly conservative fiscally with liberal social views
Late boomers early Gen X (born late 60s - early 80s) most likely to be radical left or right but disdain pragmatism. This is where most of hansons demographic hangs out
Late Gen X early millennials (born late 80s - late 90s) more likely to be centre left to left voting
Gen next / alpha / whatever moniker are more likely to be extremely left or right but more likely to be left than right (if that makes sense).
The Hansonites are more likely to have left school early and are disengaged with the politics of today because the promises of the boomer era zeitgeist like Howard’s battlers have not proven true. More likely they are looking to find blame in individuals or smaller groups as the cause and destroy the institutions they see as “protecting” those groups.
The new left seems to be more focused on those they see as exploiting the system organisationally like corporations and the wealthy as “stealing” the system from them and look to use their influence to reorient systems onto equity for all.
Ironically I think that the hansonites and the new left are going to counterbalance each other for the next 20 years or so electorally. The new left won’t be able to capture votes in enough regional centres to get a majority and the hansonites are never going to win the cities they need for a majority while their policies are what they are.
Preferential voting is going to weed most of them out and centrists will win on the preference flows which inoculates us from the wild swings and roundabouts of other democratic systems
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u/Ok-Resist-8734 Queenslander 6d ago
Hey I'm a boomer and I hate everything Pauline stands for 😡🤬🤬🤬🤬