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Millenials, and presumably gen z, are getting less conservative with age, a complete reversal of the traditional trend. We're also the first generation that's poorer than our parents.

They kept the money flowing in the post-war economy, and kept propping it up with increasing globalisation, pushing the poverty onto poorer nations, but it looks like that's stopped working and now the economy is cannibalising its own young.

I hope this sparks revolution, and I see our job right now as building the structures that will make a better world afterwards.

My brother (staunch conservative) once paraphrased Churchill to me: "Anyone who is a conservative when they're young is heartless; anyone who's a liberal when they're old is brainless."

Now that 50 is just over the horizon for me, I say that someone who voted for Donald Trump thinking I'm brainless is a compliment. Also, forgive student debt, give us universal healthcare and a universal basic income, fuck the rich, and come the revolution, may each of you reading this get to throw a Molotov at someone who owns a private jet. 💙

Boomers to me in my teens: "Don't believe anything on the internet, find actual trust worthy verifiable sources."

Boomers to me in my 30's: "Don't trust the LameStream media! I found this guy on Facebook who made a real compelling video about how all Hollywood stars are transgender!"

I used to be conservative up to my mid 20s because I didn’t know enough about the world and all I had was my parents’ influence.

Now in my mid 40s I’m as progressive as they come, and I believe there are absolutely no redeeming qualities of being a “conservative” and it’s ruining society.

This resonates with me a lot as someone that's been left of center in FL for the past 27 years. I feel really defeated actually. I've typically identified as politically active, but I just feel run-over at this point. I am working on getting approval from my job to leave this state, and I'm 2 out of 3 hurdles done. I can't fight fascism my entire life, and I feel like I have. I'm tired.

If you're conservative when you're young you have no heart.

If you're liberal when you're old you have no money.

Guess why the new generations don't become conservative with age.

Just because the world is shitty the way it is, it doesn't mean that it has to stay that way.

And just because you personally benefits from the injustice of the broken system, it doesn't mean you shouldn't oppose it.

That's the part of the movie's message I feel that people tend to miss.

Becoming more conservative is a result of having amassed a fortune to protect. No fortune, nothing to conserve.

Boomers really are the dumbest, most arrogant and obnoxious people on the planet, huh

It's really quite simple; all of the wealth has gone to executives and shareholders.

Regular working people have been fucked.

What I find funny about right wingers trying to say that people will become more right-leaning as they get older is that the quote that they're citing seems to point to the idea that the left-wing person's ideas aren't going to change and that they'll continue to hold the same beliefs.

“It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.”

Seems to imply that it means you'll get stuck in your ways and continue to hold left-leaning views, the exact opposite of what the boomers are saying, it's based on an older version of the word conservative, meaning to keep things as they are. Ironic that they're citing it as a reason for why they think people will become like them when it seems to point to the opposite, that they'll stay the same and continue to hold left-wing views.

Of coarse the idea that someone will stay the same or change in some predictable way is a generalization, people grow and change in different ways depending on the individual, same applies for getting stuck in said ways.

Well, it’s true that you get more conservative as you “grow up”. The problem is that the last few generations of kids are simply refusing to grow up, in the traditional sense. They aren’t starting businesses and buying homes and rental properties, they’re not getting married and having children of their own.

For some reason instead they just decided to take out big student loans and then stay at their parents house and play video games and TikTok. If they would just grow up and start a successful business then of course they would get more conservative, but they just want everything for free.

If you can't win, you have to resist.

I don't think getting older necessarily mean you become conservative. I reckon many people conflate with looking for stability with capital "c" Conservatism. I certainly understand now what one means by looking to settle down. But it would not make me fiscal conservative; become a pro-lifer; religious; or traditional.

I happily went the other way.

The difference is whether you are fundamentally upset about the unfairness of society or if you only care about whether you personally are being hurt by that unfairness.

It's doesn't necessarily mean the pendulum goes all the way, and it's not just about politics. For example, do find some things like music or games younger kids play now dumb or worse than your own childhood experiences, well then boom, you're a little bit conservative now. The cycle repeats.

Lol I was more conservative as a teenager than I am now.

No one with a conscience can afford to do anything except fight harder because it's not really about us at this point, it's about the Zoomers, Alpha Genners, and future generations.