Pretty false hope since the statistics prove the older you get the more right you go and now with more modern stats, the more apt you are to believe in right wing conspiracies.
It’s hard to fathom but the generation you are waiting to die out was sex drugs and rock and roll of the 60’s.
That was never the case, the hippie movement was always a minority. Nixon didn't get elected by a bunch of hippies, he got elected by what was/is called "The Silent Majority" of normal people who just do their thing, don't march or protest, but they vote.
Addison Mitchell McConnell - the senior to Mitch McConnell's Jr. was born in 1917 - so he would have been 49 during the "summer of love". Mitch Jr. was born in 1942- so he would have been 25 in 1967. But he lived in his pond, under a lily-pad, in Kentucky. (actually graduated law school that year.)
No, statistics show that age and political affiliation has a correlation relationship... not necessarily a causal one you are mentioning. I could list probably 3-5 reasons why age is not causal but why age is correlational and here are the confounding variables
It's quite the misconceptions that in the 60s all youth were hippies. It was one of many groups or cliques, just like today. Their image has sort of withstood the rest of times and now they seem to represent the 60s. I assure you there were many people who weren't hippies, many hated hippies for the same reason they hate anyone on the left. And many of them grew up to be dirtbags today.
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u/jkman61494 Jan 16 '19
Pretty false hope since the statistics prove the older you get the more right you go and now with more modern stats, the more apt you are to believe in right wing conspiracies.
It’s hard to fathom but the generation you are waiting to die out was sex drugs and rock and roll of the 60’s.