Interesting how there's only about 150 seats difference if only 50-64 year olds can vote.
Quite the opposite. They view themselves as more experienced from life and tend to want to put that experience into their voting power for the sake of future generations.
Every time I talk to someone elderly about politics, they always make a comment of "doing it for your generation" at some point or another.
They care. They just may not actually understand the ramifications of how they are showing that care.
I love the consistency for Green. They get one area and goddamn it is theirs. That transcends age, apparently.
Very curious how increases in lifespans will affect politics.
My grandma is 82, thank you very much. She's lovely and has always voted Labour.
A part of it is also that with age people view the value of money differently. As a young lad still in education it's easy to claim money should be spent on helping the less fortunate, but a grown man feeding a family and paying his debts will be less inclined to put that high on his priority list. We have a saying in the Netherlands that goes "When you're young and you don't vote left, you don't have a heart. When you're old and don't vote right, you don't have a brain."
I hate this generational war, and it's omnipresent everywhere in the world at this point. The real elite - the actual enemy - turning older generations against the young by having traditional media prey on their fear of mortality and losing control. And at the same time, devious and ambitious sects among our own generation turning the young against the old with visions of revolution and cleansing of obsolete elements.
Just a damn circus all around.
Or...
People from a generation prior who did not grow up with the ability to learn any kind of information in an instant, versus those who did grow up that way. The informational divide between the older and younger generations is staggering. Even Gen X vs Millennials shows a huge gap in how they receive their information, and as a result, what world views they have. It sounds simple and silly, but it is absolutely huge when you consider how different generations learn about things.
I think people severely downplay the importance of the internet in today's political landscape. Go back just 20-30 years ago, and it wasn't even a notion.
I don't deny that, nor do I deny that the baby boomer generation was incredibly pampered on the whole in comparison to generations both before and after, and that's given them an inflated sense of entitlement and an attitude of always knowing best.
Still, none of this was supposed to happen this way. We shouldn't have the baby boomers and internet generation at each other's throats all the time like this.
its a grandma conspiracy!
Its very likely their Party never used negative campaigning or fearmongering got make their older people to hate younger people.
Plus their few more constituencies that all ages are vote same Party unitary like in one Welsh constituency have Plaid Cymru have all ages vote for seemly while since Dwyfor Meirionnydd created.
It's that way IRL, the Greens have dominated the Brighton Pavilion constituency in the past three elections despite getting absolutely nowhere in the entire rest of the country.
I think in this case it's probably just an artefact of the way the model works though
My constituency used for be a Labour safe seat and how it's just SNP forever no matter the age.
Mixture of Caroline Lucas being generally well respected across the board, and Brighton leaning very left in general I guess.
That's just the way it is going to happen. You have two wildly diverse groups fighting for control now. The younger generation is coming of age to enter the political game, and the older generation is dying out. It's a huge dichotomy of ideals fighting each other, and it is going to be ugly and tribal.
Now, in the future, say 20-30 years from now, I would say that all of this should be smoothed over as everyone alive at that point will have the same informational standards. (That is assuming that we don't start a new, but similar, rift with information vs misinformation)
What in blue blazes are you on about? Your entire mass casualty fantasy relies on the very thing you say doesn't matter. Your "faux-moral millenials" are the very group of people pushing hardest to prevent your end of days rant. But it doesn't matter, because we're all dead anyways, so fuck it.
If this is your world view, then I suggest you go back inside your bunker. I'll screenshot the post, but I'm not aware of any mental clinics that take screenshots for admission requests.
I don't know what climate change denial trip you think everyone is on, or what that has to do with generational differences in ideologies, but stop.
Everything you have presented as a consequence is an assumption. You cross off people eating less meat, driving eco-friendly cars, and protesting coal as pointless. I'm assuming you're hitting on lithium as the scarce resource, in response to which people are working on figuring out alternatives to lithium batteries with other elements.
I don't really even know how to phrase the disconnect between your delusional argument and the topic at hand in the thread. It's like everyone was talking about if apples or oranges are better, and you come into the room screeching about how it's trivial because they all turn rotten anyways. No shit.
Yeah you know I think statistics will show millennials are the ones making the most effort and progress on this
so from one millennial doing what he can in his own small corner of the world;
fuck you speak for yourself
Conversely, my grandparents got dragged out of a local 2010 election round table with all the candidates for singing God save the Queen at the top of their lungs, while supporting their local UKIP candidate.
That same christmas they turned up to our house with UKIP stickers all over their car and a Golliwog hanging in their back window.
The BNP genuinely won in South Oxhey, my gran's constiituency. She was massively upset and I don't blame her.
Hooray, the old people in my city know what's up and we remain an unbreakable Labour (and Remain) stronghold. It's nice to live in an area where common sense prevails and the word Tory is unequivocally an insult.
On another note, if things carry on the way they are then the pro-Tory generation will die out in the coming decades, but I wonder what the next generation of voters will be like. Will they continue to support Labour, or will Labour become the new establishment and the future young vote for Conservatives instead?
A Golliwog? Fucking hell, that's just straight up racist
my grandma is 92 and can't keep up with who is even in the WH anymore or what's happening out there. I feel the same is with my father who is much younger but still doesn't give two craps about the news unless it angers and confuses him or says something sensational about democrats.
like he criticizes the democrat mayor of the city we live next to EVEN THOUGH WE DON'T LIVE IN THE CITY OR VOTE FOR HER and she pulled the city out from bankruptcy after the previous mayor ran it to the ground.
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