Probably as an over reaction to lost wages and the feeling of being completely unable to secure financial freedom for their family if they even had one which likely makes them feel like failures thus the hard pivot back to forceful ideology.

I mean unfortunately expectations of what a "man is" hasn't changed much since pre world wars with added consumerism since.

So it's equality where the equality is worse for everyone and social stigmas still are abound. It's a powder keg.

I mean minus South Korea, the graphs still show young men leaning left at pretty steady rates. More young women have moved left though, which is perhaps unsurprising given how hostile right wing politics is towards them. (And how open that's become recently)

• Different time scales on nearly all the charts

• no definition for what is conservative vs what is liberal

• Divergence has occurred within the past 10 yesrs

• Date range is floating for 18 to 29 year olds

• no data for equality

• no data for relative power

• no data for consequence

The data just...doesn't support this premise, so probably not.

When the fuck were those days? I’ve been alive since 1977, and at no point since have I been “in charge” or “not had to worry about consequences”