We’ll see how progressive they are once they’re the most conservative ones in the room
Ah yes the popular myth of becoming more conservative as you get older. It used to be true because you would get a job, have a family, and retire. Suddenly your biggest concern became lower taxes so you could spend that money elsewhere. Rest of the country be damned.
Except now significantly less people are doing those things because they have a lot less money than their parents did.
All growing old has done is made me way more left. I can see and understand so much more about how the world is fucked up.
j4k3@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
This oversimplified dichotomy is asinine. No group of people are some monolithic Borg mind. These types of tribalism are toxic useless. Russians would call it convenient idiots. It is tribalistic dogma revealing poor fundamental logic skills typical for a culture derived from the inbred Puritan penal colony European rejects.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
It’s because America uses “first past the post” voting. Look it up. If you immediately realize that no honest intelligent person would support that, you’d be right.