Early trends for Millenials and young Gen X has them not getting more conservative as they are aging, or at least substantially less so than older generations.
Because they don’t have the same generational wealth.
Fuck we don't even have wealth...
Before the rents increased too much, I lucked into an old 1930's era house in a rural town 1 hour away from work with all these lovely features:
Rotting fiberglass insulation
ungrounded outlets
no dishwasher
a clothesline instead of a dryer
non-catastrophic plumbing issues
unfinished drywall on the second floor
windows with busted opening mechanisms
gutters with holes rusted through them
a shitty-ass furnace that cost me $600/mo to heat my house to 60F last year
All for the low-low price of "i can just barely afford the monthly mortgage payment"
But now that I'm a homeowner, I'm considered wealthy these days. Yeah, don't see myself swinging R anytime soon.
I know this might not be relevant, but American obsession with dryers seems so weird to me lmao. I live in Germany and I'm not sure I've ever seen a dryer, even at my rich friends parents house, and them mafakers had a sauna in the basement. Just kinda interesting how they are completely culturally irrelevant in one country, and considered almost a basic necessity in another.
In my part of Canada without a dryer you'd have damp, moldy clothes 9 months a year. I could hang them up inside to dry but I'd be running a dehumidifier beside them. We lived without a dryer for several years but it made laundry an extra pain in the ass and drying was always the bottleneck. No problem in the summer months with the clothesline.
Yeah, I kinda suspected they were very useful/necessary in some parts and just spread to the rest because people move around a lot
They are also, in the scheme of things, a very cheap and easy to install appliance (typically directly next to or on top the washer).
I believe it's because there's no reasonable conservative option. There's nobody even pitching "fiscal responsibility" or "small government" anymore. You've gotta drink the Kool aid and support The Donald or you're a liberal cuck. There's no room for being just right-leaning; you've gotta go all in.
Gen Xer here, I’ve never seen a republican led federal government that ever actually acted fiscally conservative. Being fiscally conservative and small government has always meant cut social programs and cut taxes but never cut spending to one of the biggest cost centers in the government, the military. There’s nothing fiscally conservative about cutting taxes and ballooning the deficit. There’s nothing fiscally conservative about starting two wars and essentially putting them on credit cards. The American people only put up with them for so long because the only ones who had to sacrifice for them were those that died or came back maimed. If we had to pay for them with higher taxes instead of passing the bill to the next few generations, those wars would never have even happened.
That's a good theory, as a lot of the people we see joining up for the right are usually either doing it out of spite/ironically (and eventually having the "be careful what you pretend to be" moment where it stops being ironic) or they've been grown and raised around these worldviews.
Early trends for Millenials and young Gen X has them not getting more conservative as they are aging, or at least substantially less so than older generations.
Because they don’t have the same generational wealth.
Fuck we don't even have wealth...
Before the rents increased too much, I lucked into an old 1930's era house in a rural town 1 hour away from work with all these lovely features:
All for the low-low price of "i can just barely afford the monthly mortgage payment"
But now that I'm a homeowner, I'm considered wealthy these days. Yeah, don't see myself swinging R anytime soon.
I know this might not be relevant, but American obsession with dryers seems so weird to me lmao. I live in Germany and I'm not sure I've ever seen a dryer, even at my rich friends parents house, and them mafakers had a sauna in the basement. Just kinda interesting how they are completely culturally irrelevant in one country, and considered almost a basic necessity in another.
In my part of Canada without a dryer you'd have damp, moldy clothes 9 months a year. I could hang them up inside to dry but I'd be running a dehumidifier beside them. We lived without a dryer for several years but it made laundry an extra pain in the ass and drying was always the bottleneck. No problem in the summer months with the clothesline.
Yeah, I kinda suspected they were very useful/necessary in some parts and just spread to the rest because people move around a lot
They are also, in the scheme of things, a very cheap and easy to install appliance (typically directly next to or on top the washer).
Hey! Niiice!
So then wealth, not age, makes you conservative.
I believe it's because there's no reasonable conservative option. There's nobody even pitching "fiscal responsibility" or "small government" anymore. You've gotta drink the Kool aid and support The Donald or you're a liberal cuck. There's no room for being just right-leaning; you've gotta go all in.
Gen Xer here, I’ve never seen a republican led federal government that ever actually acted fiscally conservative. Being fiscally conservative and small government has always meant cut social programs and cut taxes but never cut spending to one of the biggest cost centers in the government, the military. There’s nothing fiscally conservative about cutting taxes and ballooning the deficit. There’s nothing fiscally conservative about starting two wars and essentially putting them on credit cards. The American people only put up with them for so long because the only ones who had to sacrifice for them were those that died or came back maimed. If we had to pay for them with higher taxes instead of passing the bill to the next few generations, those wars would never have even happened.
That's a good theory, as a lot of the people we see joining up for the right are usually either doing it out of spite/ironically (and eventually having the "be careful what you pretend to be" moment where it stops being ironic) or they've been grown and raised around these worldviews.