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  A lot of older people hear communism and think Russia, China. Communism actually has a place in the world, but obviously anything under a fascist government never goes well.
context: I grew up with Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, and Reading Rainbow. I think that is why. >
  
  Unironically true. The radical message of "Other people exist and matter." 
  For me the most frustrating part is that you're allowed to be selfish here - which is different than greedy! 
  I like to say: Yeah I do want what's best for me, and it's best for me (yes personally, yes individually) when everyone around me is intelligent and healthy and happy. Because that means I get to benefit from all kinds of cool shit when everyone is prospering. 
  I'm not even talking about a communist/socialist utopia here. I'm just saying "hey can we please just look out for each other maybe?" >
  
  Also less likely to be a victim of crime.  Most blue-collar crimes are crimes of necessity.  When people around you are happier, healthier, and more intelligent, they tend to,  you know, also commit fewer crimes.
  Things like jackasses driving like jackasses on highways/local roads going 100+mph and destroying entire families in a crash?  They tend to mellow out and go with the flow more when properly educated to care about other people.
  As it turns out, when you care about others, you also care about yourself because you're reasserting the normal behavior of people actually giving a shit.
  The reason democracy is typically the best discovered form of government is explicitly because it's a government that, theoretically, is forced to actually help its people.  Which helps boost education and health, which stamps down on rampant greed, which boosts research and innovation.
  All of which cycles back into a very healthy government.  As we can see, America is very, very unhealthy. >
  
  Because as I get older it's increasingly clear the right wing is absolutely fucking insane. >
  
  War, housing shortage, more war, recession, more war, more recession, job shortages, more war a worldwide pandemic and another recession to look forward to and it's all encompassed in the greatest information age of humanity. The lifetime of ANY millennial is why millennials are less conservative. 
  For fucks sake, we're the first generation to actively avoid having children, multiple developed nations panicking over population growth, because there's no guarantee of what we're leaving for the next generation, let alone our own. >
  
  First generation since industrialization that's worse off than our parents, because our grandparents decided to be greedy. >
  
  For millennials it’s just our parents not grandparents. Most millennials grandparents were greatest generation and they left the world much better than they found it for their kids the boomers. >
  
  They also raised the boomers to be little shits though, so there's that. >
  
  They created the very things in their kids that they hate but refuse to acknowledge their being responsible for it.
  My dad likes to talk about how Boomers failed us kids but does it in such a  condescending way that it's still insulting Millennials 🙄 >
  
  Saying stuff like: "It's my fault. I should have spanked you more." >
  
  He likes to talk about how they didn't teach and guide us enough, heavily implying that we're currently failures and useless. I forget his exact words last time. Either way you can't help but feel bad when he's talking about his generation's mistakes.
  It's like some weird narcissism where it's still somehow not their fault the world is the way it is. >
  
  It’s a generation realizing their faults. My parents worked 1 job each, didn’t buy their home (inherited), didn’t go to college, got kicked out of inherited home and inherited another one that they barely did enough maintenance to do it was considered livable. My dad used to tell me we couldn’t afford things ever. I grew up and moved out, learned he was squirreling it all away into his retirement that was over 1M and the “payments” he was making to my uncle for his half of the house inheritance were actually paused until I went to college. What the fuck my parents were doing with the money, where they were going, what they were thinking, I have no fucking clue, but knowing what I know now, I know they were very selfish and self centered individuals who put their own comfort above all else. Both born in the early 70’s.
  I rarely call them for no reason (less than 4 times per year), I don’t invite them to family gatherings, and I don’t discuss money with them. My wife and I have worked very hard since we met (I was 17) to be in a better place. My parents did little to help (there was a period of time I refused to answer their calls on weekends because they always demanded money I didn’t have for some bullshit). Now, I make over twice as much as them, live in a different city, own my own home, and haven’t asked them for a thing in over 10 years. Now, they call all the time just to be buddy buddy. I wish I could believe them but if they treated me as badly as they did as a child, why would I trust them now as a man?
  Saddest part of it all is that I had one of the better home situations amongst my friends growing up. >
  
  As a millennial myself (one of the oldest, turning 41 this year), I became an adult and started paying attention to politics right as GW Bush was elected (with a minority of the popular vote). I watched 9/11 happen (I was in a chemistry lab in college and I remember that moment with perfect clarity). I watched an increasingly-extremist GOP tear the country apart, destroy essential social services, and demonize people I cared about who happened to be gay, or black, or latino, or muslim.
  I watched them vilify and denigrate the best President in my lifetime for eight years because of the color of his skin as much as his politics, and then I watched them elect the worst President in the history of the country (again, with a minority of the popular vote) and suck his testicles as he tore down the institutions that made my country something to be proud of.
  You're goddamn right I'm not getting more rightwing. The Republican Party is a party of domestic terrorists, grifters, liars, and thieves. They will never have my vote. Not in any election, at any level. Not ever. >
  
  This is the best comment on Reddit today. If I knew how to give an award 🥇 I would. >
  
  
  There are deeper issues at play. “The most likely explanation is a cohort effect – that millennials have developed different values to previous generations, shaped by experiences unique to them, and they do not feel conservatives share these,” wrote Burn-Murdoch. To put this in my own, blunter, terms: millennials have been royally screwed by an inequitable economic system and a runaway climate crisis. Only an idiot with loads of money would be happy with the way things are.
  
  Ding, ding, ding. And if you think we're radical, just wait til you chat with the generation coming up behind us.
  I genuinely am far more pissed off by fellow millennials that I run into from time to time, as opposed to boomers, who came of age when I did and found any answers for anything within the ideology of the Right. >
  
  “And if you think we're radical, just wait til you chat with the generation coming up behind us.”
  I am an uncle to both my brothers’ 9 year old sons and I spent two years as a taxi driver driving kids to and from school. I’ve encountered so many kids who genuinely viewed ‘money’ as the core of all our problems. Heart warming. >
  
  Gen Z is the only generation where I've met multiple people who openly say they are communists, and that capitalism is the root cause of most of our country's problems. 
  I think Republicans are right to worry about the communists, but unlike Republicans Gen Z can actually state what communism is and most are against capitalism as it is implemented today