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[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

I hope not eventually thier base will die out. Majority of young voters will be left leaning. Sorry GOP boomers are dying and so will your party.

[-] WagesOf@artemis.camp 14 points 1 year ago

We need to find a way to shutdown the outrage stroking right wing indoctrination media complex first.

If you have no prospects and no education to know how to separate reality from hate mongering lies it's pretty easy for an alternate reality talking head to convince you that the only reason you don't have a job, house and wife is because someone named Carlos was allowed past the border to pick cucumbers.

[-] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Their base is already dying out. They wouldn’t need to try so hard to rig Wisconsin’s election if they already had a majority. What we’re seeing is a dying party trying to claw its way back to relevance.

[-] remus989@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

I've heard this for literal decades. It's clearly not something we can bank on.

[-] ares35@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

a lot of younger cheddarheads have been raised in the maga ways, though. it might be the case overall, but not as defined here.

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

It's why all this has been accelerating to the point we are at now, where they aren't even trying to hide it, now. They have their voters so wound up and chomping for war against anyone they perceive to be a threat to rolling back to when white males had all the power and privilege.

It's why boomers won't leave the workforce, and Congress, even when they are being led around like a spin-off of *Weekend at Bernie's." Soon as they retire or step down, the youngsters come in undo all the lies and bullshit they were too dumb and/or gullible to question. The was just an employee recognition event where I work, which is in higher ed, and there was someone there who had over 55 years at the university. Fucking wild. I can't wait to retire and stop doing this money-for-time (and during the prime of my life) so some rich asshole can make more money in an hour than I make all year!

[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah my company keeps hiring guys with 40 to 50 years experience and I am like WTF retire already.

[-] CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

There are tons of super right wing young people. I mean all the alt right "personalities" are probably under 40. Lots of my coworkers, for example, are at best die-hard Republicans, and most of them are under 35.

They're in no danger of dying out. And even if they actually are, we should rely on that to reduce the influence of the Republican party.

[-] TeenieBopper@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I'm not terribly hopeful. I'm an older millennial. As I've gotten older, I've watched my friends grow up, get jobs, have kids, move to the suburbs, etc. They got a little bit of what's theirs (obviously not enough, but still) and they want to protect it. They vote to protect their investment in their house and to keep their school district good. They're nowhere near fascist like the current crop of republican politicians, but they're scared and that leads them to voting more small c conservatively. You and I both know that republican policies are trash and that the values espoused in theory by the democratic party are better for them. But they finally made it. They're prizing stability or better, because change is scary.

Will the super racist republican party base die out? Maybe. Probably. But they're just going to be replaced by center right democrats. Sure, that's better, but not so much better that it'll fix all the problems we have. Maybe the gen-Zers can do something about it, but I'm afraid their political power will be dwarfed by the sheer size of the Millennial generation.

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

States are removing even the smallest traces of leftism from public schools and as those fail (by design) they're hoping families will opt into private schools that are traditionally parochial and thus indoctrinate children even harder.

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