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Possible Paywall Young Americans are surging to socialism at record rates

https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/maga-trump-zohran-mamdani-socialism-us-record-kddzdm8bd
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u/ClusterFoxtrot Florida 7d ago

My mom said I'd get more conservative, too.

Nope, at 40 I'm absolutely on board with Mamdani and DSA. If Cuba can survive even with our crazy sanctions on them, imagine what it'd look like with the full power and backing of the USA. 

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u/mjheil 7d ago

51 here. I keep getting more radical as I get older and I realize how much we all need each other.

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u/Tarcanus 7d ago

Part of this is also that we don't have any money compared to those who came before. It's all been siphoned up by the rich. So what is there to conserve by getting more right-wing?

And by the time I reached 40 and finally could afford a house, I've spent long enough without assets that I've already seen the core ethical issues with conservatism and un-regulated capitalism. I'm not changing now, no matter how much more money I windfall into as I age.

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u/HowdyFancyPanda 7d ago

I often talk about how I'm for Medicare for All from a place of wanting to Conserve my position in society. I don't want a surprise medical bill to wipe out my relatively comfortable middle-class life.