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LinkOpensChest.wavI become more disillusioned of our system and therefore increasingly more radical as I grow older.
Granted, I’ve never lived in a protective suburban bubble where I can stick my head in the sand and pretend that the world’s biggest problem is charcoal or propane.
Baut [she/her] auf.
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FakeGreekGirlI got older and richer, and I’m still just as socialist as I was then. Perhaps moreso, even.
I think the idea is that they have more wealth, and are terrified of losing that wealth. It comes down to greed and fear of change, rather than the actual amount of wealth itself.
Same here. I got older and richer and became even more left wing than I used to be.
But what is true, is that society is becoming more progressive faster than I am, so by the time I am 70, I’ll probably be a relative relic.
I mean… they were right… i am more conservative as i got older. I now put more money in my 401k. I save more. I eat at home more.
However, i still think other races and sexual preferences are human, and billionaires dont need to exist. Social welfare is still a good thing and probably more important than ever. I did buy a gun though. Target shooting is fun. But we need a hell of alot more gun control than there is now.
I don’t think saving money and eating at home are conservative values.
Lots of liberals and progressives do those things, too.
Heck, poor minorities do that to an extreme.
Political conservatism is distinctly NOT about IRL conservatism.
What they conserve is the “social order”. They want to preserve the social stratification, not forests.
One thing I have definitely observed over the years.
It seems only the left comes up with new ideas and so, even when they don’t have political power, they still move society forward.
And yes, there are backlash and temporary regressions, but overall, no free country seems to be moving towards old, conservative ideas.
For humanity, the only way seems forward. Towards the newer and better ideas.
Formally progressive ideas (like mixed race marriage) are no-brainers today
I can’t recall the study right now, but there have been more than one, so it shouldn’t be too hard to look this up: people typically get more liberal as they age, but society becomes even more progressive than that, so they fall behind and feel like they are becoming more conservative.
This does not include the regressive types who are trying to create Gilead, however.
HACKthePRISONSPeople who assume you’re MAGA because you don’t like Biden aren’t the far left.
Most of the far left doesn’t like Biden either. Dude is a centrist placator. I will say he’s better than the alternative, but that’s only because the alternative is a demented ultra-grifter and his cult of fascist rubes.
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Dieguito 🦝I love that meme and I already sent it to my friends, unfortunately for me not only I remained poor but I also interiorized so much the idea that “it’s my fault and something must be wrong with me” that I ended up thinking my boomer parents were just right about everything.
I am leaning towards skepticism about every hint that a “different future is possible” and that social justice will prevail in the end. The current geopolitical, environmental, economic and financial crises point to something else.
looks up from reading “The Conquest of Bread”
Reaally? O_o
My mom did assure me of that, 10-20 years ago.
By age 40, I trans’d my gender and now I’m ready to smash capitalism and seize the means of production. Let’s gooooooo
𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆Any yet we are past the post of neo-feudalism which I find infuriating. This should be the political jihad being fought for votes in a democracy.
I was ultra conservative, born in Alabama to religious nutters, and don’t believe there is any representation for the Left in the USA.
I have become more conservative over the years…
Ferment the rich!
The version I always heard when I was young was, “If you’re not a liberal at 20, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative at 40, you have no brain.”
Here I am in my mid 40s, and I’m pretty sure the conservatives are the ones with no brains.
maria [she/her]I was thinking this as wel, we have an entire generation that is poorer than the previous one, something that you basically never see in history.
Also it seems that politics has gone utterly insane. At some point I feel left vs right was about money. Should we help the poor and take more from the rich or should we lower taxes etc.
Now it’s about wokeness, crazy conspiracies, actually supporting Russia (like wtf happened there), etc.
42, the last few months and frankly years have absolutely pushed me away from the progressive left. It’s fucking wild seeing it happen in real time.
There’s an election coming up here and I’ve been a Lefty liberal voter since I started voting… I’m genuinely questioning whether I can vote for the same fuck who’s been driving the bus the past near decade or if I’ll throw my vote away and vote for the party who doesn’t have a chance. Can’t vote for the fascist wannabe asshole. Can’t vote for the fuck or the party who’s completely lost touch with the people. It’s just bullshit top to bottom.