Probably because they've yet to see a right-wing government complete a 4 year term without a calamity occurring.
I'm 100% serious.
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I agree 100%. They're incompetent and dumb as hell.
And Ezra Klein out here saying Dems need to move right....
I know anecdotes aren't data, but I'm a millennial who moved further left with age.
I started left, but am now more vehemently so.
I started as a communist and ended up an anarchist.
I was repeatedly told that when I got older I would "understand" why policy makers made the terrible decisions they did, and that it was immature to believe they were cartoonishly evil.
Instead, I learnt that the reality was even worse than cartoonishly evil.
A lot of things suddenly get explained when one becomes aware of the traits associated with Psychopathy and Sociopathy and how around 5% of humans are high in the spectrum for one or the other.
In my own experience, certain kinds of behaviors are incredibly hard to believe in (deep down, emotionally, even if intellectually one does) when a person has an average or above average level of empathy: when you have a normal level of empathy it's pretty hard to put yourself in the shoes of and naturally accept that some people are casually and without any feeling of guilt the kind of person who, for example, couldn't care less if their personal-upside-maximizing actions hurt even little children or puppies as long as they didn't get reprisals from others for doing it.
Instead, I learnt that the reality was even worse than cartoonishly evil.
Yeah, it's saying something when you figure that IRL villains are very often worse than the mustache-twirling villains featured in comic books.
The banality of evil.
The first? Are we sure about that? Generations circa 19th and earlier 20th century haven't moved left as they aged? Sus.
While each successive generation is generally more progressive than the last, within a generation people normally become more conservative as they accumulate wealth, which is something that used to happen as one aged
Millennials are the first generation to move left as they age
I told you boomers I was gonna do that, when I was 17, already coming out of my corporate-fanboi phase of my teens. "Afukinatoadaso"
Glad there are millennials who came after me doing so too. Unsurprising, given what we went through. Well done capitalism, selling out our futures.
Now I just hope more remembered it's freedom too, and not just jumping boat from Big Baron into the arms of Big Brother (or Big Bully, or Big Bank, or Big Blight, or Big Bot).
Like ol Mikey Bakunin said: "We are convinced that freedom without Socialism is privilege and injustice, and that Socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality." -- Mikhail Bakunin https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin
[Edit... it's only early to mid 40s for the first Millennials so far... We'll see if that sticks. As the saying goes, "60's the new 40".]
Maybe because concervativism went from stay at home mom's to ethnic cleansing and genocide.
No shit. We are living in a worse time of inequality than the gilded age.
Saw our boomer and genX parents ride the rise, told it'd be ours too, only to witness everything taken away, revealing only the lies remaining; the false promises that daddy corporation would take care of us all.
On a personal note, saw my parents throw away their entire 2 million, cost me a million in effort through blackmail, slavery, torture and fraud, and then inverted my efforts, so it's like they managed to throw away 4 million, and then I'm there with the government doing waves of culls of the disabled poor by cutting them off to starve, denying them even the pittance (~ I've heard said, disabled people's costs of living are 4-10 times higher, and, so, why is the top rate of disability support income less than half what they say is the living wage?)... yeah, the inequality keeps going down all the way. Not just comparing the billionaires and trillionaires to the working class and upper precariat. ... All while knowing the technology exists to emancipate everybody to lush abundance... Buuuut, is suppressed, because, ' gotta keep those rents and regressive tax extortion and usury flowing, eh?
Sucks being dependent on your abuser.
... Will not be televised.
Definitely true for me. Wish I could say the same of my siblings and their partners :(
I'm just following my grandparents' lead
Same, my grandmother never voted for a conservative in her life. I miss her, but I’m sure that if she had lived to see this day, it would have just made her golden years more stressful than they already were. I at least have the knowledge that even if my parents disagree with me, she would’ve supported the things I stand for.
"First generation to be worth a damn"
No matter how good or bad your situation is, turning right is like gouging your own eyes out. It makes the situation worse for literally everyone. Even the hyper rich would be better off under a more left paradigm.
Right wing parties feed on fear: the fear of losing what you have.
Millenials have had no chance to build anything to lose. They're not self contained fiefdoms jealously guarding Whats Mine Is Mine, they rely heavily on social groups and community.
Get on my property!
Let's go! One last Millennials are ruinning...
Fascism!
Is this a trend outside Australia as well?
Maybe as a group ? but I am cis white Gen X and started out as middling conservative in my eary 20s, now green environmentalist and anarcho-socalist at 58.
How anyone can age, look around at the enviormental devestation, including climate change enhanced catastrophes that are going to get much much worse along with vast inequality and think this is good lets keep doing this, is bemusing beyond my ability to understand.
We're in the post-truth era. People have been taught that scientific consensus is equal in weight to their feelings on an issue. Climate change can be dismissed as fake news even though there is abundant evidence, it's a disturbing thought so it can just be thrown out.
Greed
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