05-01-2022, 11:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-01-2022, 11:31 PM by Eric the Green.)
Some younger people more often commit crimes or other violent actions than people over 30, no doubt. They have the vitality and lack of perspective needed. Certainly sometimes people in their 20s or late teens can be narrow-minded fanatics. To an extent, I was, and many boomers were. Some people might say I (and other boomers) still am, though. These days, indeed, the only sensible thing is to be partisan. The Republican Party today is dominated by crazy conspiracy theories and an anti-democratic, xenophobic cult of personality on the one hand, and by an equally crazy but considered a more normal but real conspiracy called neoliberalism (lower taxes, less regulation, anti-welfare, prosperity trickles down from job creaters, etc.). Usually the two go together, especially because most of the adherents of the latter, older conspiracy are bowing to the cult power of the former, conspiracy theory peddler, who embodies both kinds of destructive foolishness.
And it's important to point out who supports this dangerous Republican nonsense. It is mostly older people, not those in their twenties. Most of the 20-somethings oppose it, but are nevertheless victims of it; because the neoliberals have successfully destroyed the sense of civic responsibility and trust among the young people with the destruction of democracy they have so-far carried out, along with their destruction of education, which the conspiracy-theory xenophobes are seeking to destroy even more now with book banning and other laws supporting bigotry in schools and in medicine.
Those on the center-left and many on the left, on the other hand, though they support progressive policies, do not peddle division and seek instead to find support among every demographic, as President Obama does. There are crazies on the left, though, who only support the most thoroughly and perfectly leftist candidates, and think they don't win only because of rigging. This and other conspiracy theories also exist or are supported by some people on the left, and by some from throughout the political spectrum as well; just not as thoroughly, nor are they able to put their theorists in power as the right-wing is able to do. But is it mainly young people on the left who support these crazy theories and fanatics on the left? I'm not so sure.
And it's important to point out who supports this dangerous Republican nonsense. It is mostly older people, not those in their twenties. Most of the 20-somethings oppose it, but are nevertheless victims of it; because the neoliberals have successfully destroyed the sense of civic responsibility and trust among the young people with the destruction of democracy they have so-far carried out, along with their destruction of education, which the conspiracy-theory xenophobes are seeking to destroy even more now with book banning and other laws supporting bigotry in schools and in medicine.
Those on the center-left and many on the left, on the other hand, though they support progressive policies, do not peddle division and seek instead to find support among every demographic, as President Obama does. There are crazies on the left, though, who only support the most thoroughly and perfectly leftist candidates, and think they don't win only because of rigging. This and other conspiracy theories also exist or are supported by some people on the left, and by some from throughout the political spectrum as well; just not as thoroughly, nor are they able to put their theorists in power as the right-wing is able to do. But is it mainly young people on the left who support these crazy theories and fanatics on the left? I'm not so sure.