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.
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.