So um... how do I put this? You're literally describing the current president, who older voters chose to represent them at significantly higher rates.
That is not specifically true. Level of education has a lot more to do with supporting Trump than age. I’m a senior citizen but I’m college educated and have a functioning understanding of ethics and right vs. wrong equations. I realize that no matter the politics one desires one doesn’t resort to political tantrums and putting a highly unethical, because their public record states that is precisely what they are, individuals in high offices because they are feeling under represented. I can DISCERN the difference between a standard issue political hack and a bonafide sociopath and realize the hack, while far less than perfect, is the lesser evil.
I would expect young people fresh from 18+ years of having their needs largely met for them to be a little less self-reliant on average…
It’s not a matter of ability. Of course one would expect younger people to be ‘“on route” and less arrived. It’s a matter of expectation. The lack of “on route”. Failure to launch.
that goes without saying - but the past nine years have really shone a spotlight on the just how much an even deeper fragility and sense of entitlement pervades the older generations.
Nonsense. Show me the metrics that support that.
The history clearly shows a past where older people supported young people as they approach maturation, where those younger people then cross over into functioning adulthood, and then those functioning adults support their advancing into their final years elders as they slide out of self-sufficiency in declining years. It’s always been the way, until recently, where increasingly non-functioning 30 and 40 and even 50 year olds move back in with their parents looking for the kind of support they received in the childhoods, with 20 something’s never launching in the first place. Still living with Mom and Dad.
And it’s not the multi-generational homes we’ve seen in past periods of economic despair. Where members of all the generations present work hard and chip in to carry everyone present along. It is the reappearance of younger generation failing to reach orbits of their own falling back into the gravitational sphere of their parents, and grandparents, looking for the kind of emotional and economic support of children and very young adults.
The fears of immigrants and crime and 'socialism' and gay people and trans people Muslims are almost entirely abstract, distant bogeymen which in almost all cases don't affect their lives in the slightest, and in some cases actually improves their lives... but those imagined fears have caused the older voters in particular to pretty much abandon all sense of morality, fairness and values of liberty, democracy and human rights in favour of a Big Daddy would-be 'strongman' government by one of the most thin-skinned man-babies on the planet!
Bogus. Again, the metrics don’t bare that out. It is, again, a matter of education. A desire to dig into things to figure them out for yourself rather than accept, on face value, what one is spoon feed from whatever bubble an algorithm places them in.
Young people are more apt to be click baited and algorithmically accepting of where there smartphones and social media put them. It’s not senior citizens matching in “Gays for Palestine” protests, members of a community demonstrating for people who would stone them to death for their sexuality.
It’s a function of self-dependence to find out things for yourself, not accept on say so. “The Information Age” generations are statistically more apt to not question the security of being assigned a bubble by an algorithm. Though, again, education level is the deciding factor in much of this. Less so than age.
And you're wanting to compare that to young people... what? Responding to actual direct criticism (which does actually hurt most people of any age) by backing away or something…
You’re barking up the wrong tree. You can’t say things to me and expect me to accept it because you say so. You have to make a case. I have mine, and if I don’t I’ll dig and find out truths. I’m a fully functioning, self-sufficient, adult. I can pay my own bills, conduct my own life without leaning hard on others, do my own research, use deductive reasoning and critical thinking to come to working, fact based, conclusions. All that grown-up stuff. {smiling good naturedly}
navigatorresearch.org
www.nytimes.com
