Well, there’s the president for one
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prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
I wonder what % of Republican boomers that support the war in Iran also refused, in one way or another, to fight in Vietnam.
Would be an interesting stat to see.
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
That was a pretty common evolution they went through. My mom was a free love hippie that is now basically a Nazi. She can’t understand why I cut her out of my life.
sexy_peach@feddit.org 18 minutes ago
Same for my mom. Always a people loving hippie and into crystals and alternative healing, but during covid she discovered telegram and now she votes for the far right and believes in qanon or whatever the latest stuff is.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
The hippie to fascist pipeline is real. Their tendency to distrust the establishment means they also fall for typical fascists tactics where they blame the establishment and people in power for all their problems. Like in my country during Covid lockdowns these so called “spiritual” people voted for the blatantly fascist party.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
That sounds plausible, but I don’t think that’s the case for my mom. I think she was just going with the trend, trying to be in the “in group”. I can say with 100% certainty a big part of her Nazi transition is the lack of empathy that she has.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
I really don’t understand how that shift is actually possible.
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
They were going with the flow.