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  You don't have to be friends with people that enable fascists. There are 8 billion people out here. Quit wasting your time with people like this.
context: This isn't moving the Target day back. This is, Let the kids fucking do it >
  
  That’s the status quo now anyway: politicians in place for 25+ years and don’t do shit but line their pockets and pontificate with their opinions on social issues they formed during vastly different time periods.
  Then, when things from urgency to emergency, they cower away. Wash’n’repeat every 40 years and here we are. >
  
  I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it. Boomers we’re to large of a voting block. When they were young - We had amazing progress in the west. When they had a future they built towards it. Then… It slowly turned. As they aged more conservative they voted to leverage against the future. And keep doing it. No one generation should ever have had this kind of power.
  I hate that I won’t have that my vote hasn’t mattered for 20 years. Xers haven’t mattered even longer. And it’s taken it’s toll on a lot of them. I really hope millennials and Z have enough in common to come together before millennials as a whole get too conservative to do better. We have a lot of work to do. >
  
  
  before millennials as a whole get too conservative to do better. 
  
  I think (and hope) this won't happen. Growing up in a rapidly changing world has (I think) made us more accepting of new developments. We've also seen what conservative looks like and hopefully will know that it is a pointlessly destructive ideology.
  No way to know except to watch it happen I suppose! >
  
  I'm in my 40s and am horrified to see my fellow once liberal late Gen-Xer/early Millennials become ultra-conservative. To the point where I have to listen to them pontificate on harsh penalties on drug users, removing support for the unemployed,  etc. when I know how much they used as teens and that they were raised on government support. >
  
  Do you call them out on it? >
  
  Yup. And then there's a pause of awkwardness and then ten minutes later they move off in the room and start spouting the same stuff to someone else. 
  That's  when I found that there is a real mentality that liberalism is youthful/rebellious/naive and conservatism is mature/respectful/wise. And that the views they expressed when they were younger was just trying to get attention and "being cool" (Their words believe it or not.).