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Interesting. The younger set in this part of twitter is disproportionately trad and conservative but the general trend in this crowd is decisively progressive. I find it reassuring tbf. It would be historically weird if this age group *wasn’t* strongly left leaning.
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The woke derangement syndrome moral-panic epidemic elides extent to which this is just kids being unpragmatically utopian kids (with some help from cynical older grifters). They’ll age into healthy pragmatism, and some will horseshoe into redpilldom, but some effects will last.
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I kinda think 19-29 age group historically leaning radical left is an adaptive response. It’s how younger lifestage primates learn cooperation, mutualism, collective action etc., while they are weaker and they’re most helpful as a weapons-of-weak.
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With individual success and sorting of cohorts into losers/clueless/sociopaths, you get the normal adult distribution by the 30s. This generation has perhaps been slightly extra successful due to internet tools, but I suspect not as much as some think. Par for the course++
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No matter how distasteful you find woke politics, it’s one of those great truths of the human condition and a permanent part of our genetic-memetic lifecycle at all scales. Cf “the opposite of every great truth is also a great truth” — Bohr.
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If this tendency didn’t exist to balance out the hobbessian-libertarian-individualist tendency that tends to take over past 35 or so to varying degrees, we’d have to invent it
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Tbh young people are *bad* at being trad conservatives. You can’t be a good trad conservative until your 30s/40s and can only pull it off if you do a tour of duty on the progressive frontier in your 20s. If you try the opposite sequence you’ll basically be a moron at all ages.
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