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To be conservative, you have to have something to conserve.
A lot of my peers are just now waking up and understanding how badly we have been screwed over in favor of what is basically a double handful of billionaires.
What concerns me is that I always thought younger people were usually liberal by a pretty large majority, but now it seems like a bigger portion are conservative than in the past. So they might become more liberal as they age but they're starting further right than they used to. Kids who grew up through trups first term probably think this shit is normal. American principles have been eroded or completely re-defined, and they have no clue what we used to be and used to strive for.
I'm GenX. We've never had any political, population, or economic power: we were constantly outnumbered by the Boomers, who were always like, "Wait your turn!" - while simultaneously refusing to give anyone else their turn.
It looked like power was going to go straight from Boomers to Millennials, which was fine, as they're more in tune with the world, and more overall.
It scares me to think that power may instead transfer to the young hyper conservative/MAGA/Andrew Tate people instead. I'm hoping that either that won't happen, or that I'll be dead before they get control.
It sounds delusional that people think the corrupt billionaires will give us universal basic income instead of say... bombing us to smithereens like they have done to Gaza and now Iran and afterwards bulldozing our remains and build another data center.
Americans are becoming MORE Liberal? Oh NO! We NEED to try and get as MANY MAGA as Possible before we Lose EVERYONE!
-The American Liberal Political Party AKA Democrats!
That's been the case for me, although I was never particularly conservative to begin with. I've seen it with some of my friends, too, to varying degrees. If this is as widespread as this guy claims, we need to speak up more, the Democrats don't seem to have noticed.
I vote in the primaries, and I vote the most leftist candidate on the ballot. If there isn't one that I really like, I'll write one in. It's an easy message to send, that you want more liberal people in office.
I might be biased, but I think they are getting gayer too.
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2026
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