@salva_pl Interestingly @Stubbs came up with the thought that boomers got more conservative, but Gen X'ers are getting more radical. I reckon there might be something in that.
@ianbetteridge@salva_pl@Stubbs I was living in Nottingham (a mining town), and when I was leaving college, Thatcher closed the mines. And privatised the local buses. There were 22,000+ unemployed in Nottingham after that, and we had to walk everywhere. I was unemployed for three years. There’s no way I could ever bring myself to vote Tory, and I suspect that many GenXers had not-dissimilar experiences
Mind, I was also radicalized by Reagan/Thatcher era conservatism as a teen in the 80s. But I also recall that even then, I was an outlier. Most of my cohort were small-minded, bigoted, selfish conformists only too happy to let someone else tell them how to think, so it comes as little surprise that they still are.
@ianbetteridge Is it a coincidence that in the main the boomer generation got more right wing as they got older and, certainly in my extended circle, GenX is getting more lefty?
@Stubbs@ianbetteridge I think this rings true for me too. Although I was brought up by a hippie mother, and in the 70s we went on protests. Lots of protests. So am I more “radical” now? Probably not. But have I turned into a Tory-loving bigot? Nope.
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