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Millennials are the first generation to move left as they age (www.abc.net.au)

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Millennials are bucking trends, becoming an increasingly progressive voting bloc and rewriting the long-held rules of politics, writes Isabella Higgins.

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[–] 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Atari Gen here . Born in 1980. I'm in rural Tennessee. Started out super right... As I've gotten older I've moved further and further left.

My political views these days are summed up by this..

I want my gay married neighbors and their adopted trans kids to be able to defend their land and their legal pot plants with full auto imported ak47s. And of course if something happens.. they can go to the hospital and use their universal health care.

It goes a little further than that.. it that's a good start.

[–] eureka@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I know a few people in rural US who made the jump from a super right US Libertarian position in late-teens/early adulthood all the way over to Marxist positions. I'm not certain, but I suspect that the US Libertarian and Republican mindsets are often normalised there so people are raised with them by default, but a lot of the underlying ideas that validate the US Libertarian position, like individualism and "freedom", work better as abstract ideas and tend to break down upon inspection. Most of the additional freedoms of the US don't matter when people don't have the money, health and other resources to make use of them. It just allows the rich and powerful to trample the rest.