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In Australia.

In America the effect really depends on the subgroup you're looking for. Educated vs uneducated, wealthy vs poor, rural vs urban. Overall Millennials haven't gotten more conservative as they age, but aren't continuing to move left. The entire cohort has always been many points left of the others, absolutely from the constant crises. I'm not sure of any recent research on the cohort moving further in recent times, but I'd love to see it if anyone has it.

The other worry here is, Millennials might also be the last generation to do this, as we're losing in many thought spheres where young people get their information, including first political impressions of the world around them. Conservative think tanks absolutely saw what was happening with Millennials and vowed to win back the next generation.

Probably because they've yet to see a right-wing government complete a 4 year term without a calamity occurring.

I'm 100% serious.

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 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.

The first? Are we sure about that? Generations circa 19th and earlier 20th century haven't moved left as they aged? Sus.

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.

Definitely true for me. Wish I could say the same of my siblings and their partners :(

I'm just following my grandparents' lead

"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.

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.