When my generation (I was born in ‘87, so the end of Reagan’s term) reached voting age. I’m a Libertarian, but I tend to vote Republican in attempts to counter the hypermajority of Democrats here in IL.
My generation was a mixture of latch key kids and helicopter parents, on top of rapidly degrading anti-American curricula in schools, making most of my generation feel entitled to everything it wanted. Social media made it worse, by creating endless numbers of attention whores who were able to block and allow only messages with which they agreed, creating echo chambers.
Yep. I’m not one of those, but my friends from high school? God. It’s depressing. Even the one with a PhD in History is a commie pinko. How that happened, I have NO clue.
Gah. I live in the bluest of states, and my vote never means anything, though I cast it faithfully...so I know what you mean.
I have often thought that what we see now is the result of the Sixties radicals going from being radical to putting on suits and cutting their hair, but not cutting the childish beliefs they held.
They held the root of those beliefs, and codified them in laws when they got their hands on the levers of power.