MountaineerCoalition could lose 35 seats as younger Australians not shifting towards conservatives as they get older
IlandarThe oldest zoomer isn’t even in their 30s yet. Seems a bit early to make predictions about their relative conservatism.
There is also a lot of talk about economic policy in this article but not much about social progressivism, which I think is where the big gap between my generation (millennial) and previous ones is being generated. Unlike any other generation before us, we have grown up completely connected to the rest of the world. We get our news direct from the source almost immediately, versus days late and heavily edited through a newspaper or news broadcast. I have have more international friends than any other generation in my family by an absolute mile. I think this awakening to the shared human experience has made our generation more caring and empathetic and thus more resistant to conservative policies which are more likely to have a narrow focus and be driven by selfishness.
Additionally, I think the fact that millennials have copped so much shit from conservatives over the last couple of decades has formed a wall of untrustworthiness that is going to be difficult for the Coalition to break down.
They’ve actively worked to undermine our very existence, while gleefully removing advantages that they often had that could’ve helped us - HECS, undermining medicare, creating housing crises because there’s no other way to make a buck in Australia since they went full neoliberal…
Yeah. Leopards, meet face.
And I think the responses in this article demonstrates that they still don’t actually understand the problem here. They think if they just create economic policies that specifically target us, we will vote for them like previous generations did. But to my earlier point, I think our generation (and future ones) are increasingly concerned with how economic policies affect everyone. It’s not enough to just help me buy a house or lower my student debt. I don’t want to see future generations face the same problems, or worse, that my generation has and I think this is a sentiment shared by many younger people today. The social connections we have made through the internet and looming global existential threats like climate change have created a generational consciousness that is wider in scope and more concerned with tomorrow than those that came before it.