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What is it with these people and being way less cool than their parents. Isn’t Buttigieg’s dad a Marxist professor?
Parenti's kid is a lib too iirc
When you live in the imperial core and your own material conditions are comfortable, you have to really make a conscious effort to break left, and you have to also understand that while you may be arguing for a slight worsening in your own conditions, you're arguing for a drastic improvement for many others. Coupling that with how American/western countries really try to beat into you that you're on your own/you are an individual against society, well...you have to beat your own self interest and the aggressive, constant barrage of brainwashing
Yup. So many people in the west with a hint of success (or just a job). Think they did it all themselves and they are built different. And if you're never hit with adversity, you can just go on thinking that. I'd say that white boomers have that problem in spades, the system just kept working for them.
Yup. I can't think of anything more depressing than having a reactionary kid. Like I get the perspective of not wanting to "force" Marxism on your kids, but if this can be the result, then you probably should have.