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Gen X isn't naturally like this because of age, but because of political and media marketing that worked to stamp their generation with certain conservative values from a young age. If this is gonna happen to Gen Z, it will happen soon. But few tend to deradicalize once they are anti-capitalist.
Yeah, I'm honestly concerned since my parents' political views changed radically the last 5~10 years or so. They were super loving and caring. Now they're very "paranoid" about things that shouldn't really leave them that stressed and xenophobic bordering full on racism. Overall gender related topics topics, random news on Facebook, immigrants...
I think that, if my parents that were so understanding and caring about everything and everyone, can somehow have their opinion change drastically in 5-10 years, what's preventing that from happening to me, or my generation, down the road? I'm not trying to say that every gen X or boomer thinks that same way though. But a lot of them have grown more "resentful" I guess...
Yeah, computers and Internet aren't their expertise so maybe they're more likely to fall for fake news and clickbaity titles designed to infuriate them and generate views.
But who knows what's coming? Maybe there's something else coming up that my generation will be too "boomer" to understand. Maybe we'll fuck up everything without even noticing we're doing it until it's too late. Maybe I'm just being too paranoid myself.
Think tanks are paid a lot to figure out how to dupe every generation and make fools of us. Should be obvious, but a lot of young "leftist" or "progressive" democrats are... maybe happier to tow the party line than they let on. And oddly support Israel, full-stop. Maybe we will vote in a "leftist" raegan democrat or something. The path to hell is paved with good intentions.