Mongrel wrote:Literally no brakes on this man's mouth or brain (for some questionable value of "brain").
Not a real tweet, though. The actual post was much whinier.
Mongrel wrote:Literally no brakes on this man's mouth or brain (for some questionable value of "brain").
Thad wrote:The conventional wisdom that Boomers shifted from liberal to conservative is largely a mirage. They were never that liberal to begin with; it's just that when they were college-aged, they liked sex and drugs and didn't want to get drafted.
You Don't Wanna Know wrote:The thought I've had for a while now is that people don't get more conservative as they get older, but rather conservatism molds itself more around them. It's not even really a theory since the GOP is outright about courting whoever happens to be retirement age at the time.
The most striking thing about it though is how they pretty reliably undergo a regime change every 20 years to match whatever tick is up that generation's ass. In the 60s Nixon courted turn-of-the-century people who couldn't handle all these new civil rights; in the 80s Reagan courted people who remembered the dustbowl and were panicked about another Great Depression; in the 00s Bush courted the people who grew up thinking Americans were born to fight the world's wars; now we've got Trump reminding all the 60s kids that foreigners are spooky and the government will send your brother off to die.
What the GOP will look like when we're struggling to cash in our benefits I have no idea, but you'll probably hear the term "American Dream" thrown around even more than it is now.
IGNORE ME wrote:The craziest thing is thinking about how in 2036 or 2040 when some new thing kills off the MAGA cult people are going to be wistful about the "old GOP", again. "Sure, they were unreasonable murderous terrorist assholes, but at least they were honest about it!"
Oh God the Xennial GOP's just going to be people who are nostalgic for the Cold War isn't it. Ugh.
IGNORE ME wrote:nostalgic for the Cold War
IGNORE ME wrote:IGNORE ME wrote:nostalgic for the Cold War
Like, that was the perfect American war, right? We got to be the brobdingnagian heroic superpower fighting the forces of some kind of evil, but nobody had to, like, actually get into combat with anybody
Mongrel wrote:Even that's aiming high. I'm thinking Pakled-Ferengi hybrid.
oh my God we are the Klingons
Friday wrote:It's a myth that people get more conservative as they get older. They get more conservative as they make/have more money.
The reason Boomers thought (and think) that age equals conservatism is that the majority of Boomers made a lot of money as they aged and saw themselves and all their friends starting to become more conservative and drew the wrong causation.
It's sort of like that old party game what's her face used to play: 10% of people will be leftists no matter what their wealth, 10% will be conservative, and 80% will go whatever way their financial situation pushes them. Though again, I disagree with her numbers. I think it's closer to 20/60/20 for both Nazis and percentage of people affected by personal wealth.
sei wrote:https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/okcupid/thedemocratsaredoomedorhowabigtentcanbetoobig.html
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