I'm going to keep sharing this info until it sinks in.
Young voters do not get significantly more or less politically activated. Voter suppression gets more or less effective. Ballot drop boxes and mail-in voting, prevents suppression.
People do not become more conservative as they get older. There is not an increasing difference between white GOP and Dem voters as they get older.
Black people don't live long, and many brown voters aren't born yet.
@mekkaokereke, well I have grown more conservative as I’ve aged, thus my White boomer anecdote disproves your data. 😉
While it really is true that I’ve grown a bit more conservative, the country has moved further to the Right far faster, with the result that despite my Rightward shift over decades, I’m further to the Left of US politics than I used to be.
1st, thank you for taking your day job seriously! Recommend!♥️👍🏿
And yeah, while 80s conservatives were arguing with each other about which specific tax breaks helped "the economy" the most, the party went full fash, and now y'all can't stop it.
The Goldwater / Nixon / Reagan egg hatched and became a 200 ft long dragon, and now it's swallowing villagers whole.🤷🏿♂️
I should be arguing with y'all about housing policy, and bike lanes, and police reform. Not "Should trans people exist?"
@mekkaokereke I should clarify that my move rightward was from a starting point of state Socialism (state ownership of the means of production) and economic and political isolationism. So a rightward move still leaves me well left of center in the US. But I got to see Socialism in Nicaragua and Hungary.
I have no problem with state control of natural monopolies and the European style of Social Democracy, welfare, regulation, and support of unions. But I am emphatically anti-Socialist in the "state control of the means of production" sense.
@jpgoldberg Ah!
And that all makes sense.
And yeah, just like you, I tell folks that violent socialism does exist. And there is a violent left just as there is a violent right... but the violent left does not exist in the United States.
But we should understand why Latinx immigrants in Florida that know what a real, violent, leftist is, would be confused and then rightfully concerned when they hear that some woman named Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is "trying to bring socialism to America."
@jpgoldberg They don't hear socialism as in "Bike lanes, weed cafes, affordable housing, and free college." They hear socialism as in "Narco guerillas, kidnapping and ransom, car bombs, and desaparecidos."
Rather than laugh at people who "Vote for the GOP against their own interests!" we should do what it sounds like you do: understand the various valid concerns these groups have. And recognize that there are Black, white, and indigenous Latinx voters, across the entire political spectrum.
@mekkaokereke, I have long been annoyed at my fellow Democrats who assumed that the growing Latin populations in FL and TX would turn those states blue by demographics. It showed a complete failure and disconnect with those voters. They should not have had to learn the hard way in 2020.
(This also illustrates why I never last long when I volunteer for Democrats in TX. Party loyalist are stubbornly optimistic, and I struggle to get along with them.)
@mekkaokereke @jpgoldberg the really annoying bit is a lot of the GOP’s current swing towards nationalism began with anti-immigration rhetoric based on the same idiotic assumption that people fleeing socialist countries will … want to replicate that here?
