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		bena on March 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You can't censor away extremism or any other probl... The weird problem with this strategy is that there's a number of people who become more conservative, for whatever reason, as they get older. The generation that comprised the hippies are now in their 80s. Mitch McConnell would have been in that generation. So while the current crop of conservatives are dying off, they are being replaced by new members.

caslon on March 12, 2021 | [–]

It's not enough to make up the gap, though. Further, hippies rarely voted, and weren't the majority or even close to the majority of their generation.

wnoise on March 12, 2021 | [–]

It's typically because they get wealthier as they get older. I'm not expecting millennials and gen-X to get more conservative. Zoomers, maybe.

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