Surprise! Actually, not really....Millennials continue to shift to the right

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Anonymous wrote:Tale as old as time: the older you get, the more conservative you become because you have actual life experience, have been mugged longer by the government for taxes, have a family, and acquire wealth. So much for the myth that the GOP would die off with the Boomers:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/01/upshot/millennials-polling-politics-republicans.html

Let's see how badly the Democrats accelerate this trend in 2024.

I haven't found this true with my friends. I think this is "wishful hoping" on your part!

Wow, because anecdotal stories are so useful, as opposed to the objective stats used in the article that covered the entire cohort of Millennials.

Guess you must be a younger Millennial at the tailend who was taught common core math.

All Common Core Math is the idea of showing your work. It's not "new math" or shortcuts, some crazy curriculm, or anything new. Very simply it means show us how you arrived at your answer.
It looks like you, OP, could have used this, no?

I’m a math teacher and this is false.

+1 from another math teacher. It’s gotten so bad I’ve pulled my kid from public school. I’m a Gen X who has gone further right. Really I’m a moderate but I seem very right since schools are so left now.

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Anonymous wrote:Tale as old as time: the older you get, the more conservative you become because you have actual life experience, have been mugged longer by the government for taxes, have a family, and acquire wealth. So much for the myth that the GOP would die off with the Boomers:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/01/upshot/millennials-polling-politics-republicans.html

Let's see how badly the Democrats accelerate this trend in 2024.

I haven't found this true with my friends. I think this is "wishful hoping" on your part!

Wow, because anecdotal stories are so useful, as opposed to the objective stats used in the article that covered the entire cohort of Millennials.

Guess you must be a younger Millennial at the tailend who was taught common core math.

All Common Core Math is the idea of showing your work. It's not "new math" or shortcuts, some crazy curriculm, or anything new. Very simply it means show us how you arrived at your answer.
It looks like you, OP, could have used this, no?

I’m a math teacher and this is false.

+1 from another math teacher. It’s gotten so bad I’ve pulled my kid from public school. I’m a Gen X who has gone further right. Really I’m a moderate but I seem very right since schools are so left now.

“Im A mOdErAtE.”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tale as old as time: the older you get, the more conservative you become because you have actual life experience, have been mugged longer by the government for taxes, have a family, and acquire wealth. So much for the myth that the GOP would die off with the Boomers:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/01/upshot/millennials-polling-politics-republicans.html

Let's see how badly the Democrats accelerate this trend in 2024.

Yeah speak for yourself. My 80-something year old white parents have gotten way more liberal as they got older. Especially around social issues. Same for their siblings. None of them cares about things having to do with sex, which Republicans think is an issue they can win on. Or rather I should say, they don't think the government has any business being the morality police like the GOP thinks it should be. Whether that's regarding LGBTQ, abortion, etc. They also are much more aware of racial injustices than when we were younger and will talk a lot more about what it was like growing up in the 1940s and 1950s with regard to racism and bigotry.

And I'm still as liberal as they come at age 58.

Sharing anecdotes in a thread about trends across the population demonstrates a lack of critical thinking ability.

Nope, Boomers may be in the Midwest and Fla hanging on to Fox, but there are many quite educated 60 through 75 years old who remember the first time we had to fight for all this again. We are everywhere.

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So many people forget that boomers were also hippies. The protested war, they fought for women’s rights, and they fought for Roe. The Fox crowd gets the attention but hippies didn’t become trumpers. It’s ageism and stereotyping (and self centered immaturity) to write them all off as conservative.

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Anonymous wrote:Tale as old as time: the older you get, the more conservative you become because you have actual life experience, have been mugged longer by the government for taxes, have a family, and acquire wealth. So much for the myth that the GOP would die off with the Boomers:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/01/upshot/millennials-polling-politics-republicans.html

Let's see how badly the Democrats accelerate this trend in 2024.

I haven't found this true with my friends. I think this is "wishful hoping" on your part!

Wow, because anecdotal stories are so useful, as opposed to the objective stats used in the article that covered the entire cohort of Millennials.

Guess you must be a younger Millennial at the tailend who was taught common core math.

All Common Core Math is the idea of showing your work. It's not "new math" or shortcuts, some crazy curriculm, or anything new. Very simply it means show us how you arrived at your answer.
It looks like you, OP, could have used this, no?

I’m a math teacher and this is false.

+1 from another math teacher. It’s gotten so bad I’ve pulled my kid from public school. I’m a Gen X who has gone further right. Really I’m a moderate but I seem very right since schools are so left now.

“Im A mOdErAtE.”

When you don't like what you've read, you restate it in alternating capital letters.

We need to go back to requiring logic and rhetoric classes in college. It's getting ridiculous, people can't even make coherent arguments anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:Tale as old as time: the older you get, the more conservative you become because you have actual life experience, have been mugged longer by the government for taxes, have a family, and acquire wealth. So much for the myth that the GOP would die off with the Boomers:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/01/upshot/millennials-polling-politics-republicans.html

Let's see how badly the Democrats accelerate this trend in 2024.

I haven't found this true with my friends. I think this is "wishful hoping" on your part!

Wow, because anecdotal stories are so useful, as opposed to the objective stats used in the article that covered the entire cohort of Millennials.

Guess you must be a younger Millennial at the tailend who was taught common core math.

All Common Core Math is the idea of showing your work. It's not "new math" or shortcuts, some crazy curriculm, or anything new. Very simply it means show us how you arrived at your answer.
It looks like you, OP, could have used this, no?

I’m a math teacher and this is false.

+1 from another math teacher. It’s gotten so bad I’ve pulled my kid from public school. I’m a Gen X who has gone further right. Really I’m a moderate but I seem very right since schools are so left now.

“Im A mOdErAtE.”

When you don't like what you've read, you restate it in alternating capital letters.

We need to go back to requiring logic and rhetoric classes in college. It's getting ridiculous, people can't even make coherent arguments anymore.

*high school not college. Needs to be spread as far and wide as possible.

[Anonymous]

We need to teach CRT starting in 1st grade. No need to dumbify our kids as per the GOP's wishes.

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Anonymous wrote:Boomers are dying off and GenZ won't be voting for anything other than liberals and progressives for at least 20 years.

Young people don't vote.

2020 and 2022 say hold my edible.

Exactly. Young people vote now bc republicans are handing guns to unstable freak shows to blow up classrooms and killing young women who want abortions.

So thanks to republicans, the young are voting!

[Anonymous]

This may shock so Republicans to hear but the young people don’t like that they were afraid of getting shot to death at school.

And old millennials moms like me really don’t like it either.

I’ve moved to the right somewhat - I make 7 figure so ya I care abt my money - but republicans literally promote the chance of my child being shot to death at school. Zero chance I’d vote for them.

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I don't believe it. Millennials and younger generations are less racist, sexist, and every other --ist; less religious; less likely to support extreme abortion bans and the degrading of women's rights; more likely to have grown up with school shootings; and better educated than earlier generations. That does not translate into a rightward shift.

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And less likely to tolerate rapists and racists.

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Anonymous wrote:Tale as old as time: the older you get, the more conservative you become because you have actual life experience, have been mugged longer by the government for taxes, have a family, and acquire wealth. So much for the myth that the GOP would die off with the Boomers:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/01/upshot/millennials-polling-politics-republicans.html

Let's see how badly the Democrats accelerate this trend in 2024.

I haven't found this true with my friends. I think this is "wishful hoping" on your part!

Wow, because anecdotal stories are so useful, as opposed to the objective stats used in the article that covered the entire cohort of Millennials.

Guess you must be a younger Millennial at the tailend who was taught common core math.

All Common Core Math is the idea of showing your work. It's not "new math" or shortcuts, some crazy curriculm, or anything new. Very simply it means show us how you arrived at your answer.
It looks like you, OP, could have used this, no?

I’m a math teacher and this is false.

+1 from another math teacher. It’s gotten so bad I’ve pulled my kid from public school. I’m a Gen X who has gone further right. Really I’m a moderate but I seem very right since schools are so left now.

“Im A mOdErAtE.”

And you’re a clown.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Boomers are dying off and GenZ won't be voting for anything other than liberals and progressives for at least 20 years.

Young people don't vote.

2020 and 2022 say hold my edible.

Exactly. Young people vote now bc republicans are handing guns to unstable freak shows to blow up classrooms and killing young women who want abortions.

So thanks to republicans, the young are voting!

School shootings have been happening at least since I was a kid in the 70s and 80s and — except no one cared because it was a a major US city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it's important to differentiate between national politics and local politics. Democrats have a significant advantage with every generation below the boomers - abortion, health care etc. But at the local level, democrats are a disaster - crime, restorative justice, absurd school boards. So I think that's where the tension lies. People generally like democratic policies at the national level. But they've come to despise the local progressives that are ruining cities throughout the country.

Doesn't mean people are turning to Republicans. That's a clown show.

I mostly agree with you.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't believe it. Millennials and younger generations are less racist, sexist, and every other --ist; less religious; less likely to support extreme abortion bans and the degrading of women's rights; more likely to have grown up with school shootings; and better educated than earlier generations. That does not translate into a rightward shift.

Per the chart in the OP, it’s a minimal shift. The older generations have a more dramatic shift.

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Anonymous wrote:Boomers are dying off and GenZ won't be voting for anything other than liberals and progressives for at least 20 years.

Where does Gen X fit in all this?

Written off as usual.