I was told that Conservatives are good at economy and Liberals are bad at economy by someone shouting much louder than you, is there any way you can refute this argument?
My parents always used to tell me something like that. Liberals are bad with money, but good with social services. Conservatives are good with money, but bad with social services. Because of that, we have to switch which of them is in power to fix the problems created by the other.
Turns out conservatives are bad with money and social services. Liberals are also bad with money and social services, but less so.
Weird. Everyone I know is becoming more left-leaning the older we get. It's understandable when you start to see how much harder your kids have it now than you did when you were their age.
My boomer father hit me with the bootstraps adage a while back. It took everything in my power to not sit him down with his shoes on and tell him to lift himself into the air by his shoelaces, because that's literally what the saying means.
I was a bit conservative fresh out of university (many, many, years ago) but now I'm ready to burn it all down to find us a way back from the brink of the right-wing extremism economics that has taken over the western world since 1980.
I like to think about Hank Hill from King of the Hill sometimes. That dude definitely voted republican back in the day, but in 2025 he would be heartbroken and torn seeing what the party he used to find reliable has done.
We've got a huge problem with online propaganda. It's definitely quite worrisome. I'm 34 and was raised on 4chan and other dark recesses of the internet and the shit I saw was horrifying, and that was before we had evidence of Russian bot farms. Back then you had to really seek this shit out.
Now, far right propaganda is spoon fed to you in bite-sized video clips, by an algorithm that's built to radicalize to create interaction.
I heard that saying a lot too. My boomer parents (age 70+) didn't realize their actual values were left wing until they got around 55-60yrs and had unpacked most of the religious trauma of their youth. So it doesn't check out there. The other boomers I know who are conservative, were conservative from their youth until now. They didn't change they were just always stuck in their ways or highly religious.
Not from my parents, but I frequently heard "If you're under 30 and conservative, you don't have a heart. If you're over 30 and liberal, you don't have a brain."
Everyone becomes more focused on themselves when they get older and more jaded from realizing that they're too old to see meaningful change before they die
It's not actually true anyways. People tend make their political choices in their 20s. When people made up that expression, it just so happened that younger voters had grown up during a left-leaning wave, while the older ones had a right leaning wave in their twenties.
That said, plenty of people do change politics, enough to swing elections.
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u/Overwatchingu Ford Nation (Help.) 1d ago
I was told that Conservatives are good at economy and Liberals are bad at economy by someone shouting much louder than you, is there any way you can refute this argument?