05-30-2017, 10:25 PM
(05-30-2017, 08:43 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(05-27-2017, 04:18 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(05-20-2017, 05:16 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: It's at least based on data. Do you have any data to the contrary?
It's what people believe at age 20 that really matters. In the 1970s many Boomers entered college as conservatives and ended up as liberals.
The kids born just after 9/11 have yet to get through their teen years. They aren't really close yet. Indeed, the first such kids have yet to qualify for drivers' licenses yet in most states.
All true. That's why the study compared them to previous generations at the same age. Granted it's a big assumption that the degree of indoctrination in college remains constant between generations.
However much 'PC' Silent and Boomers may have wanted to indoctrinate Generation X into robotic radicals, the older generations failed completely in the effort. The only resistance that Generation X posed to the Right was on sexual repression and the pushing of pseudoscience. Generation X was not going to sacrifice reason or self-interest to any ideology. Give Generation X credit for some chilly rationalism that leaves little room for superstition.
We have yet to see how current children approaching adulthood will respond to Trump (or for that matter, Obama) as President. We do not yet know what the consequences of Obama are so far (the most interesting thing about his Presidency will be his origin... yawn!), let alone those of Trump.
GIs of a certain time were indoctrinated in "New Era" economics (basically plutocracy, 1920s style); events proved such economics catastrophically inadequate.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.