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My parent's generation said that I'd become more conservative as I get older. As a millennial, this ain't happening. I've seen what such policies have done to us and I want change.
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lol I'm not even counting on Social Security or Medicare to be around when I'm old enough to retire (if I even can) because I'm guessing that's all gonna be cut in the future.
I'm not even counting on America to be around when I'm old enough to retire.
I used to think this way when I was younger but I have gotten more optimistic in this respect
Why? What gives you hope?
Because many many years ago, when people who are retired now were young, the world also was a terrible place.
What if, instead of allowing these services that we've paid for to be taken from us, we instead force the billionaires to rip them from or bloody fingers while we take bites out of their greedy little hands. 🐰🔥🥰
Is the retirement plan to die in the revolution, or is the retirement plan itself going to die in the revolution?
…Or both?
Yeah, if anything I've gotten more left as I've gotten older, I grew up thinking I was "fiscally conservative" (aka I was involved in the lgbt community but my mom listened to american conservative talk radio in the mid '00s and I absorbed some of those views), and as I went away to college and became politically aware in my own right I've naturally settled on socialism. The fact that I can barely afford rent while a dozen people control over half the wealth in America has certainly affected my outlook too.
YUP. The only way that'd be possible is if we somehow gained something during our generation and wanted to screw over the generation beneath us to keep it. But we didn't get anything, so what is there to conserve, lmfao. The only thing I've become as I've gotten older is more empathetic, to the point it's probably detrimental to my health.
Definitely. I'm in my 30s and the idea of buying a house is still out of my reach. Looks like I'm gonna be renting forever. 🤷♂️
Well said.
Fellow millennial here. Hasn't happened yet. The older I get, the angrier I get at the right wing, for not only denying progress but reversing it.
Yeah. People mistook a trend of people getting more conservative as they got richer for a trend of people getting more conservative as they got older, since once age and wealth correlated more, at least for cishet white folks.
Instead I've steadily tilted farther and farther left with the years.