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So um this explains like 90% of what's going on in American politics right now
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12115-019-00437-7
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12115-019-00437-7
Personally I think it has more to do with the political conditions we've grown up in. Millennials have basically never seen a fair labor market, a functioning Congress or a sane Republican Party. https://twitter.com/danielleseering/status/1386319243516448769
I'm always struck by how many parents' idea of "normal" political conditions are those of the '60s and '70s, when there was a lot more compromise (and a lot less filibuster). They keep thinking that America can return to those conditions even though they're half a century old.
Millennials voted in large numbers for the first time in 2004. We've only experienced a post-Bush political landscape of scorched earth bad faith and culture war.
We're not trying to return politics to some remembered default. We're trying to fix the ways our parents broke it.
We're not trying to return politics to some remembered default. We're trying to fix the ways our parents broke it.
This is also *extremely* important. https://twitter.com/stahlscott/status/1386322800118353929
One thing the study notes is that growing up during the depression and the New Deal actually pushed the Greatest Generation to the left. That acted as a check on the more conservative Silent Generation but now the Greatests are mostly gone. https://twitter.com/aecwilfong/status/1386321504175075329
This definitely plays a role, though white millennials are more progressive than their parents too. Silents are around 80% white, millennials are 60% white. https://twitter.com/GirlWhoWhirls/status/1386322173275504651
