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I wonder what % of Republican boomers that support the war in Iran also refused, in one way or another, to fight in Vietnam.
Would be an interesting stat to see.
That was a pretty common evolution they went through. My mom was a free love hippie that is now basically a Nazi. She can't understand why I cut her out of my life.
The hippie to fascist pipeline is real. Their tendency to distrust the establishment means they also fall for typical fascists tactics like putting the blame on the establishment and a secret cabal in power for all their problems. Like in my country during Covid lockdowns these so called “spiritual” people voted for the blatantly fascist party.
I really don't understand how that shift is actually possible.
Most well-to-do and simultaneously selfish generation of people in human history?
Quite likely.
No the final fuck your is when they leave whatever money they have left to their goddamn church.
You misspelled Republicans
No war but the class war
Until class traitors (boomers) spend decades voting against your future interests.
The class war is the priority, but it's ok to be mad at assholes pulling up the ladder behind them.
Considering the complete lack of correlation between issues that voters care about and the policies that politicians actually enact, I don’t think that merely voting makes boomers blameworthy.
Studies have repeatedly shown that politicians in both parties do not act in accordance with what their voters want, so clearly voting does not affect policy.
Sure, but the bourgeoisie have convinced a large portion of the would-be proletariat to side with them. So insomuch as the average 'soldier' in this war is more likely to encounter a coal-rolling boomer than Elon Musk, there is more to this than pure class politics.
Its the 1% vs the working class, not generation vs generation.
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