http://wapo.st/1s5c5oC by @JonHaidt #10: Boomers especially polarized. Theory: Boomer right also a counterculture, v similar to hippie one.
The hippie counterculture and Moral Majority were both universalist, where the 80s/90s subcultures were tribal, exclusivist.
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Both countercultures were attempts to rescue eternalism from the threat of nihilism, so not surprising both used Romantic strategies.
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Particularly, the stance of romantic rebellion, so Boomer right & left both FIGHT THE POWER of a mainstream that hasn’t existed since 1980.
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