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Because everything is fucking my shit up and family is worth less than nothing. Older generations got some personal benefit from fasch policy as they aged.
Me, I just see it proven evil and stupid literally every single day. Hard work just gets you more debt. Ownership is fake unless youre already wealthy. The law doesn't protect me. The government is not my friend. The people in charge dont know what they're fucking doing unless there's a child in the room-and in that case I'd rather not know, but keep finding the fuck out. We know we don't get to retire.
It's a material interest thing. And at this point a lot of us aren't dumb enough to betray our comrades for the scraps our grandparents go6 by age 30.
I’m doing pretty well, personally. I’m in my late 30s, I own a condo that I bought myself - not inherited, and I have a good job with job security. I’m not saying this to brag but I am saying this to say that anecdotally, I have never understood the notion that as you get older, the more conservative/Republican one becomes. And just to heep en the anecdotes, the above is pretty much everyone I work with and everyone I know professionally.
Maybe all these so called lefties that came out of the sexual revolution/hippie/peace and love-era and turned conservative…just weren’t particularly good people to begin with. Maybe being a hippie and smoking weed and being sexually adventurous in your younger years, was just that. Fun. The political ideology was just ‘fashion’ that enabled the lifestyle. But then they got bored or it became more fun to be wealthy when mom and dad handed them the keys to the house and got them the cushy corporate job - but they were always shit bags, even when they were young, so called “liberals”.
I don’t know. I didn’t live through what Boomers and Gen-X modern conservatives, formally liberals, lived through. I just have a hard time believing anyone in 2025, that lines up ideologically with modern day Republicans, can possibly be a good person. It would need thorough explanation to convince me that they formally had an ideology that lined up with mine. I can’t even begin to comprehend a justified rationale for becoming conservative. It seems like horseshit to me.
Yeah but I'd rather find why they sucked than pat myself on the back and congratulate myself for being a good person.
This is what the past year has taught me about my ex-hippie father. It was always just an aesthetic for him. Major bummer.
How do you think the hippies afforded that lifestyle? Most of them had rich parents. They were kumbaya because they didn't have to worry about anything, not because they had any sort of solidarity.
Nope. Knew some. You coukd genuinely work part time for a month, then fuck around doing van-life for a year on that money.
Some had rich parents. Not all. Maybe not most.
This. I was born middle class to a family who was first generation to go to Uni. Left Uni with $1,000 in the bank (no debt), and ended up a millionaire in my 30s due to hard work and a lot of luck.
I'm pretty damn progressive. Fuck the Republican/Democratic party. We need UBI for free food and housing. And a wealth tax.