Ryan Burge, a Professor of Practice at the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at WashU, says fewer Americans are getting more conservative as they age. People born between 1940 and 1954 still are, but among people born from 1955 to 1979, there’s no change in political outlook as they age. For those born in 1980 or later, it looks like they are becoming more liberal as they age.
I take this as a hopeful sign. I don’t think anyone on the political right has any idea how to organize the new world AI is quickly taking us to.
In a few years, driving jobs and unskilled work will be gone to cheap robots. AI is poised to be able to do more and more white-collar work. At some point, the choice will be the chaos of collapse if we insist the old free-market economy is the only way to do things, or figuring out how everyone lives, gets fed, and gets healthcare in a world where most people won’t have jobs.
The fact that more people will be left-leaning and liberal than conservative in this world is a hopeful sign that they won’t choose collapse and clinging to the old order.
Hopefully more left than liberal
To be conservative, you have to have something to conserve.
A lot of my peers are just now waking up and understanding how badly we have been screwed over in favor of what is basically a double handful of billionaires.
Oh yeah. Gladly most of us are younger and we will see them dead anyways.
And we will build our own fair world without such atrocities, because they all are obviously artificially created by the parasite rich class.
It sounds delusional that people think the corrupt billionaires will give us universal basic income instead of say… bombing us to smithereens like they have done to Gaza and now Iran and afterwards bulldozing our remains and build another data center.
They depend on our infrastructure. Once we have AI they’ll either use neutron bombs or micro drone swarms loaded with neurotoxin. Leaves the building intact with minimal damage and virtually no survivors.
Americans are becoming MORE Liberal? Oh NO! We NEED to try and get as MANY MAGA as Possible before we Lose EVERYONE!
-The American Liberal Political Party AKA Democrats!
Its funny how liberal is used as a buzzword insult by the alt-left and the right.
Horseshoe theory.
I think that most of the problems the left has with liberals is that they never seem to embrace liberalism. Democrats maintain a liberal veneer, but they really don’t give a shit about things like democracy, individual liberty, or equality before the law. Liberalism was largely abandoned in favor of neoliberalism, which is basically fake liberalism plus financialization of everything.
Horseshoe theory must be true because your reply just turned me into a eugenicist, post your cranial measurements right now.
What concerns me is that I always thought younger people were usually liberal by a pretty large majority, but now it seems like a bigger portion are conservative than in the past. So they might become more liberal as they age but they’re starting further right than they used to. Kids who grew up through trups first term probably think this shit is normal. American principles have been eroded or completely re-defined, and they have no clue what we used to be and used to strive for.
I’m GenX. We’ve never had any political, population, or economic power: we were constantly outnumbered by the Boomers, who were always like, “Wait your turn!” - while simultaneously refusing to give anyone else their turn.
It looked like power was going to go straight from Boomers to Millennials, which was fine, as they’re more in tune with the world, and more overall.
It scares me to think that power may instead transfer to the young hyper conservative/MAGA/Andrew Tate people instead. I’m hoping that either that won’t happen, or that I’ll be dead before they get control.
Not really. It’s just that there’s no such thing as a moderate conservative anymore, everyone who would have been is just a Nazi now
That’s been the case for me, although I was never particularly conservative to begin with. I’ve seen it with some of my friends, too, to varying degrees. If this is as widespread as this guy claims, we need to speak up more, the Democrats don’t seem to have noticed.
I’m as left as it gets and have been since I was a teen but I’m arguably becoming more radical as I age, given how society is unfolding as I age.
I vote in the primaries, and I vote the most leftist candidate on the ballot. If there isn’t one that I really like, I’ll write one in. It’s an easy message to send, that you want more liberal people in office.
I might be biased, but I think they are getting gayer too.
