• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Yes, 100%. Narratives that generalize artificial notions of “generations” only really serves the interest of marketers and people looking to divide and conquer.

    It gets even dumber when you learn that there is not much supporting evidence that shows that people get more conservative as they get older…

    But yeah, a whole lot of ink being spilled about how we need to have the Democrats all turn on each other on not only lots of purity tests, but simply on the number of times they’ve been around the sun? And people constantly taking up not only the right wing mantra of “term limits”, but also age limits? Get the fuck outta here with that noise…

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      9 hours ago

      Generational cohort scapegoating is no better than attacking people based on their Chinese horoscope signs.

      And yeah, term limits, in particular, empower party apparatchiks and civil servants and weaken eleted officials. The result of that is more regulatory capture and more power to the parties’ big donors.

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      19 hours ago

      People confuse naïvety with left-wing. Sure, young people are going to be more forgivingly left or more absolutistly right before experience shades in some more of the greys.