• @VinnyDaCat
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    37 months ago

    I don’t believe this. Not because I don’t want to, but because I can’t.

    Trust me, I never thought my parents, or many others from the boomer and gen X generations would end up this conservative. Knowing that a lot of it’s from fear mongering and misinformation, I can’t say I have faith that millennials won’t change later on for the same reasons. We’re not immune to either of those, we’re just better adjusted to handling how it’s currently spread.

    If I’m wrong in a few decades I’ll be grateful though.

    • drphungky
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      27 months ago

      Democratic party might just get more conservative to match, since a lot of the effect is anti Republican, not necessarily that millennials are somehow magically going to stay progressive unlike every generation ever.

      • @VinnyDaCat
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        17 months ago

        Possibly yeah. I mean a lot of the Dems currently are rather moderate, which really shows the extremes the Republican party as a whole has slipped to on the scale.

        I’m not entirely sure how this would work with our two party system though. Unless the Republican party collapses and reforms then liberal viewpoints would be left without representatives.

        • @lennybird
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          37 months ago

          There’s a bit of the notion of what’s progressive and conservative changing with times. You know the adage: old dogs, new tricks.

          We millennials will almost certainly have more modern beliefs the generation before us and before that. But I doubt any old generation will match any new generation.

          Still I have hope with respect to the rapid loss of interest in establishment religion.