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  Don't talk about this stuff like it's past tense.
  A 2016 Pew Research study found that 58% of Americans believe that their lives are not largely determined by factors outside of their control and that 73% think it's "very important" (10/10) to work hard in order to get ahead in life.
  I would love to see this study rerun in the post Trump era, but there's no way these numbers aren't still very high
context: The whole snowflake thing is hilarious since the right are the most thin skinned ‘people’ I ever had the misfortune to know. >
  
  Accuse your enemy of that which you are guilty >
  
  That's modern conservativism in a nutshell -- every accusation is a confession. >
  
  That’s because all conservatives are literally adult children, socially and emotionally stunted from never having challenges (I.e. “peaking in high school”) >
  
  Anecdotally nearly everyone I know who "peaked in high school" happens to be MAGA >
  
  Also from Maryland checking in to say…same. >
  
  The amount of people who shit on the kids THEY raised is hilarious. Nobody asked for participation trophies, Larry. YOU just gave them to us. And guess what? I didn’t care. It had no bearing whatsoever on the way I grew up. Being a latch key kid raised by a television, however, did. Thank Star Trek, not your shitty plastic trophy. >
  
  OMG yes!  I had a family member use that and I looked him directly in the eye and said "Your generation invented them, you think any of us actually wanted these things?  It always weirded us out how often all of you saved the useless ribbons and trophies to prove how much better you were than someone else even though all of us had the same ribbon.   Now you want to scream about it?  Where was your outrage when we were complaining they were lame?"
  As per usual, subject change happened.  It is funny though, there's a bit of terror coming from some of them who retired with government paychecks..  All of a sudden they're coming to the realization that this Congress might actually cut them off entirely. >
  
  Gen X here.  I never understood the become more conservative as you age thing.
  If anything, my views become more progressive the older I get. >
  
  I think it came from people earning more money and growing wealth and then feeling that it's unfair that some of that wealth is taken and given to people who didn't "make the same effort" that they did.
  When you're young and don't have much, it's great to think that the rich should help the poor, but once people get rich they think that the only reason they are is because they deserve it and others don't. It takes a lot of self-awareness to realize that wealth is due completely to circumstances and luck.