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Supporting the conservative party which seeks to undo progress and maintain the status quo as a form of "rebellion" is so goddamn typical of idiot kids. The elderly and young people agree on one general stance: "idk wtf you're talking about and I absolutely don't like it or want it."
The shrink of our memories and attention spans will have been our undoing. It's probably already over, and it'll be another 50 years or so before people realize it. Idk if we can ever recover from all of this, so I'm just gonna drink and play video games between chores today instead of watching for current events.
It's important to take breaks from the doom and gloom. We can take a day off from rearranging deck chairs once in a while. We owe it to ourselves.
They're not doing it to be contrarian. They're doing it because the Republican party has spent more time than they've been alive establishing themselves as the anti-establishment party as well as the victims, and the good ol' fascist play of giving young men disillusioned with the bad things in their lives an easy target to blame rather than blaming the people who are actually at fault - the Republicans.
There are 40+-year-olds who were surprised when Rage Against the Machine didn't support Trump. What machine did they think they were raging against? The Democrats of course, well known for being the party of the establishment and the status quo. Not like those scrappy Republicans, looking out for the common man while the Dems look down from their big-city ivory towers with disdain.
“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.“ It also revolves around this aspect too.