- Joined
- Feb 19, 2017
What are you talking about? Democrats aren't owed my vote just because I don't like Trump. I got no reason to vote for someone who's policies I dislike just because Orange Man Bad. I'm aligned with the left, not with neo-liberals who favor a return to normalcy over making people's lives better.
A more important question to ask is what are you going to do if the current cultural zeitgeist ends and the next one shifts away from leftism?
I get not voting for a neoliberal like Bloomberg or Biden, and I figured you'd probably vote for the Greens if you vote at all. But nothing lasts forever and your past assertions of culture always moving in a more "progressive" direction is just Whig History bullshit nonsense.
The Boomers were extremely left-leaning on average in their teens, twenties, and early thirties, but then went rightward as they approached middle age, most often going in either a neoliberal direction or joining the ranks of the Religious Right and the neocons.
It's entirely possible that the Millennials and Early Zoomers could have their very own "Yippie to Yuppie" equivalent movement in the late 2020's and 2030's.
The Core Zoomers (the bulk of whom are just now reaching voting age) seem to have more in common with Generation X, being more moderate liberal or centrist overall, and the Late Zoomers and Alpha Generation are at the same age the Millennials were when the Religious Right was at its height, so I would not be surprised if the Alpha Generation kids end up going rightward as a response to the SJW's of their childhoods.
So, if the zeitgeist shifts away from the Woke Left, what will you do? Are you going to "sell out" and leave the left? Will you continue fighting for leftism in vain? Or are you just going to swallow the black pill and join the 41%?