This is what my anti communist mom and father-in-law have been telling me. 😂

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    4 months ago

    The assumption previous generations made is that as you get older you will gain more wealth and assets, and so you become more conservative from a desire to protect that wealth.

    Except with late-stage capitalism people just stay poor for their entire lives, so this never happens.

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      Then they die and the eight people who survive their 55th birthday are the conservatives with acres and acres.