Boomers are telling us how great their home investment is while I’m just patiently waiting for Hugh Morgan to die.
Millennials are the first generation to move left as they age
Submitted 10 months ago by Eyekaytee@aussie.zone to australianpolitics@aussie.zone
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pHr34kY@lemmy.world 10 months ago
willard@midwest.social 10 months ago
Interesting to me to see this talked about. I have observed in myself over the years becoming more left leaning, 20 years ago I considered myself maybe just left of center. Now with more real world observations and experiences I am much further over to the left side.
Always wondered why people “traditionally” moved right as they aged, since it has been the opposite of me. I guess many people take something different out of their life experiences, I don’t know. Interestingly as well, I think my parents (born in the early 50s) may have changed similar to me, but that could just be a difference in my own perception. I think they have always been somewhat left leaning despite being fairly religious, but probably 10 or more years ago they stopped attending church. I don’t think they claim much to any religion these days, despite my father having been a preacher for like 25 years.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Always wondered why people “traditionally” moved right as they aged
I don’t believe it has ever been seriously suggested (by serious researchers) that there’s a link directly between age and conservatism. Rather, there are links between conservatism and various things that tend to be more common with age. Marriage, home ownership, higher wealth, etc. So it’s unsurprising that a generation where that is happening much less would be the one where the correlation with age disappears.
willard@midwest.social 9 months ago
Yeah I always thought that way just based on observation only. Your way of looking at it does make sense, I hadn’t considered it that way.
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Authoritarianism will do that to a motherfucker
velindora@lemmy.cafe 10 months ago
Well, they say if you go left far enough you wrap back around.
c10l@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If by they you mean proponents of the horseshoe political theory, yes.
eureka@aussie.zone 10 months ago
And, in case anyone doesn’t already know, the left-right model of politics and all its variants (political compass, horseshoe, etc.) are not useful models for analysing politics.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 9 months ago
I’m the same amount left, but more and more disillusioned by left wing parties. They gave a lot of talking points but no solid plans on what to do if they got power.
The greens make great headlines, but I don’t think they’re ready to run a pub raffle, let alone the country.
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
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