I was always leaning liberal and now I’m even more leftist. Mainly because conservatives got even more dumb.
And I’m someone who grew up with parents that were staunch republicans and made me go to church every Sunday. Then I turned 18 and my parents are still christian, but they don’t do church anymore. hmm wonder why. Also one of them hates republicans now and switched registrations. I don’t even think older people even believe that whole “you get more conservative as you get older” garbage.
Past generations saw some level of stability by their 40s and felt that something worked.
Ain’t nothing worked for any of us and those people who did turn conservative in their 40s are now 80 and voting to literally murder gay and trans folk.
Anyone who believes this is just as deranged as the Q people lmao. What an outright fabrication of anything resembling the truth. Nobody on either side of the spectrum, be it left or right, are voting to murder anyone. Maybe take a peak outside your Reddited echo chamber because the real world has much more nuance than it’s allowing you to see.
Reddited chamber?
We on Lemmy…
Is this a bot account? Do I have to start looking to see if bots are posting here as well?
We on Lemmy
No shit. Didn’t you get the memo that Lemmy was filled with Reddit transplants over a month ago?
Reddited echo chamber.
I’m aware of where we are and comments like that person’s are no less outlandish than that of Reddit’s delusional tankies.
I’m a human, beep boop.
I’m in a demographic that’s probably not common on this site. I work a physical, traditionally “blue collar” job. It’s the kind that attracts the “male with no college education, conservative politics” – you know the type.
The thing is, I am also a white guy that looks and sounds like them. I own guns, I’m an outdoorsman, I can crack off-color jokes with the best of them. They assume I’m “one of them” and openly share shit with me they’d never say out in the open.
I hear Qanon adjacent crap far more than I care too. A current favorite of theirs is the “Trans people and drag queens are grooming kids!” A disturbing number of them frequently speak in support of violence against or even the murder of LGBTQ/leftist/woke people. Hell, listening to them talk I’d expect a few of them would probably do it themselves if they thought they could get away with it. This is the sort that got excited when they heard there was a shooting at a Pride (unrelated to Pride it turned out) event near our town.
So you’re right: nobody is voting to murder anyone … yet. But the aforementioned exist and vote for those that absolutely would if they could. That happily support policies pushing society in that direction, and would be thrilled if murder of their political “enemies” were a reality.
This will never stop being weird to me, or at least unfamiliar.
Reason; I was raised by boomers, but they were legitimate 1967 Haight-Ashbury hippies (actually my dad derosed out of Vietnam in '67, so he wasn’t in SF until '68, but leave us not quibble) who even now, though both my parents are dead, are still far to the left of me, and I’m basically a Bernie-style democratic socialist.
To put in perspective, while my parents weren’t actually part of the SLA, they personally knew and were friendly with some of the most notorious of the lot, though they had parted ways by the time the SLA started to get seriously crazy.
All of which is just to say that growing up with Boomer parents in NorCal was a very different experience for a lot of gen Xers like myself.
We don’t have lead in our veins this time around.
When I was 18 I was a right wing libertarian. When I became a software engineer and started making good money I became a progressive democrat. Now that I make 6 figures I’m an Anarchist Communist. Question: when does my career of the last decade become a “real job” and make me a conservative asshole? Because I’m still waiting.
