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Zohran Mamdani is reshaping the Democratic Party faster than anyone expected
(www.the-independent.com)
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are there? hard to say with none of them in charge of anything.
Seems to me when we get the boomers out of the way, a lot of problems also go away. ever notice how racism and sexism is much more prevalent and "normal" with older people? Stands to reason that putting those people in care homes and out of power would make drastic improvements to society.
Are you familiar with the Joshua Generation at all? Literally a training ground for christo-fascists that trained former and current senators.
There's absolutely young fascists currently in charge. Heck "DOGE" was nothing but a bunch of 20 somethings allowed to enact part of their fascist wet dream.
Putting the blame on age and not class is why you're getting so ratiod
Ratioed? Kharma's not a thing here so who cares. And maybe I've just met more old people than you have.
Also your Joshua generation thing doesnt show a prevalance for idiocy in youth, just that some exists. Idiocy in the elderly is a fact of life. Brains dont get better as they age, and the context they grew up in doesnt keep up with the times they live into. I dont care if people like it, people dont get smarter or more relevant to the times as they age.
Teachers are having trouble with boys as young as 8 not listening to them because the manosphere tells them they shouldn't respect women.
Pretty much everyone went to school with some Young Conservative type who was weirdly into politics at a young age.
JD Vance?
I think it depends on your definition of "young", but there are the folks like Kyle Rittenhouse, Jacob Chansley, Ben Shapiro, and tons of other netizens younger than Joe Rogan with their hate-mongering podcasts. Being emboldened in the way they are, more seem to be popping out of the woodwork instead of being shamed or reformed into better viewpoints.
So if you can name 4 shitty young people then all young people are shitty, thats your assertion?
Unfortunately, these are all young people with a vast following of young people. Not to mention Charlie Kirk, Andrew Tate…
Young people skew left and that’s a fact, it’s not a supermajority like it might seem on places like this.
They are exemplars of what befuddled you from the other poster's note of young fascists out there. Forget about that and just look towards basic reading comprehension to better prepare you for understanding complex concepts like examples.
At the very least, the younger generation would have less lead to addle their brains.
Or at least different kinds of addling. Although, I suspect that algorithmic social media does less long term damage than persistent developmental lead poisoning (SERIOUSLY, WHAT THE FUCK? LEADED GASOLINE?)
Oh, like they should have been developing - heh - what, electric cars?!
Okay Space Commander Hippie Love!
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already has made drastic improvement everywhere else in the world outside of the USA, Israel, Russia..
all still run by rapidly aging boomers.