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There’s a lot going on with it. I’m gonna gloss over some things here and there but this is the basic trend as I understand it. A lot of it has to do with differing responses to the world getting worse and what different generations had at their disposal to explain it.

Currently there’s a lot of money being poured into propaganda aimed at pulling young people to the right. So where Gen Z had a lot of care put into making sure that blame was placed on like minorities and women for why their lives sucked, Elder Millennials didn’t really have that. We were a bit better educated on average since things hadn’t gotten as bad yet, and the propaganda machine hadn’t been as heavily invested into yet. So a lot of us were better equipped to identify that the root cause of the issues was capital accumulation.


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