Current Events > Will politics move more left in US when the boomers finish dying off?

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Or are we stuck in hell until the oceans swallow us

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stuck

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The mainstream opinions will move left but the government will continue moving more right wing, as the two do not coincide whatsoever

People said this about boomers themselves lol

Naw because people who live in fly over states will still stay red because that's all they know. I have lots of coworkers my age who has lots of Red state beliefs

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The healthcare, fossil fuel, and finance industries will presumably still have money to spend on political campaigns

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The boomers, as it turns out, had children.

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Yes

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Remember that many boomers used to be bleeding heart hippies. People change, especially once they actually start paying taxes.
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People don't really change, we just assume that the small percentage of young people who are politically active represent their entire generation.

There are a ton of right-leaning millennials and zoomers, they just don't start voting until they are older.

Yeah, as people have already said. Boomers were the free love hippie generation. Plenty if them were straight up marxists when they were younger

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voldothegr8 posted...

Remember that many boomers used to be bleeding heart hippies. People change, especially once they actually start paying taxes.

No they weren't lol and even the few boomers old enough to have been hippies weren't a huge group of people, the vast majority of the country had nothing to do with that scene.

Yeah the hippies took over California with help from tech and it's a socialist hellscape according to everyone to the right of michael bennett. It used to be nixon and Reagan territory

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My moms a nearly-70 ex-hippie boomer. Shes still a socialist.

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Balrog0 posted...

Yeah the hippies took over California with help from tech and it's a socialist hellscape according to everyone to the right of michael bennett. It used to be nixon and Reagan territory

California is a hellscape but it's firmly a neoliberal hellscape and not a socialist one. That's who the tech hippie boomers are and were, largely.

Nope, the younger generations will just replace the boomers with the same beliefs.

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GregShmedley posted...

religion

But young people are increasingly rejecting religion

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But topic title is a bit insensitive.

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Well, boomers have been gradually dying off for quite a number of years now. And yet even though there must have been fewer boomers alive in 2016 than there were in, say, 2008, there was still a lurch to the right. So if you're assuming that most boomers are right wing, or that most right wingers are boomers, how was this possible?

In fact, why has American politics zigzagged between left and right at all, if it's been shaped by just one generation -- shouldn't we have seen instead a relentless drift to the left over the years, as that generation began dying off?

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fuming posted...

California is a hellscape but it's firmly a neoliberal hellscape and not a socialist one. That's who the tech hippie boomers are and were, largely.

I literally chose my comparison point for this reason

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Firewerx posted...

Well, boomers have been gradually dying off for quite a number of years now. And yet even though there must have been fewer boomers alive in 2016 than there were in, say, 2008, there was still a lurch to the right. So if you're assuming that most boomers are right wing, or that most right wingers are boomers, how was this possible?

In fact, why has American politics zigzagged between left and right at all, if it's been shaped by just one generation -- shouldn't we have seen instead a relentless drift to the left over the years, as that generation began dying off?

Lol you think public opinion shapes american politics in any way

fuming posted...

Lol you think public opinion shapes american politics in any way

I don't know how else politicians get voted into power, except by the decisions that people make when they mark their ballot papers.

Again, the question: if all boomers are right-wing and they're the ones who've supposedly dictated who sits in the Oval Office, why has American politics zigzagged left and right at all? Unless, y'know, an entire generation isn't a single undifferentiated mass with a collective mind permanently focused in the one direction, or something.

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Nits make lice.
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