Each generation rejects the previous which is why the pendulum swings. Conservative 50-s liberal 80-90’s, conservative 2010-2020 (when the bills are due)
>>Each generation rejects the previous which is why the pendulum swings. Conservative 50-s liberal 80-90’s, conservative 2010-2020 (when the bills are due)
Emphatically not true until the post WWII era although the phenomenon was apparent after WWI. Previous to that, wars were a chronic condition without a subsequent differentiation between youth and parent value systems. Why? What in the 20th century made such a difference, one that was effortlessly exploited by lefties while we remained blind to it?
Why have conservatives traditionally been oblivious to the cultural determinants of social and psychological dynamics other than the primitivist Pavlovian ones? Are we innately stupid in this regard or did something in our outlook simply not take such dynamics into account?