I think this is bad. The only bright side is that young people (men especially) usually grow out of their radicalism when they get older and get some skin in the game.
Obama and Clinton were left wing radicals in their 20s and grew up and became corporate democrats. I know guys who were white nationalists in their 20s who are now cen…
I think this is bad. The only bright side is that young people (men especially) usually grow out of their radicalism when they get older and get some skin in the game.
Obama and Clinton were left wing radicals in their 20s and grew up and became corporate democrats. I know guys who were white nationalists in their 20s who are now centrists in their 30s and 40s.
I for one wanted to bomb the shit out of the Middle East, kill all their leaders, and convert them to Christianity in my early 20s. Basically I was Ann Coulter with a wanger. Now I am just a grumpy conservative.
I hear you. I was a pretty wild right-wing hellraiser 15 years ago too. I guess the key difference that I’m highlighting here is that this generation is just starting from a lower level of religiosity than previous ones. Political ideology is downstream from religious ideology, IMHO.
Yeah nonreligious people tend to be left wing. That being said, I have been running into more centrists and far right people who are nonreligious. Actually more far right people are becoming anti religious (or into Norse paganism)
I think this is bad. The only bright side is that young people (men especially) usually grow out of their radicalism when they get older and get some skin in the game.
Obama and Clinton were left wing radicals in their 20s and grew up and became corporate democrats. I know guys who were white nationalists in their 20s who are now centrists in their 30s and 40s.
I for one wanted to bomb the shit out of the Middle East, kill all their leaders, and convert them to Christianity in my early 20s. Basically I was Ann Coulter with a wanger. Now I am just a grumpy conservative.
I hear you. I was a pretty wild right-wing hellraiser 15 years ago too. I guess the key difference that I’m highlighting here is that this generation is just starting from a lower level of religiosity than previous ones. Political ideology is downstream from religious ideology, IMHO.
Yeah nonreligious people tend to be left wing. That being said, I have been running into more centrists and far right people who are nonreligious. Actually more far right people are becoming anti religious (or into Norse paganism)