Same with my grandma. She grew up in the south but moved to sf bay area in her early 20s, but stayed pretty republican however she has much more empathy than both my parents combined. She always comments on how sad it is to see homeless and gives them a few bucks quite often. Whereas my parents are just the typical, "get a job bum" type of shitty people. Honestly if I talk to my grandma about leftist policy she agrees on most of it, but things like Fox warp her mind with how they demonize it all, it's truly just so fucked up.
Her ideology is very contradictory but I also feel like she is so old it's hard in a way to "change" how she views dems versus republicans after being drip fed all that fox shit for over a decade now. It sucks, but I'm glad she is willing to learn and do better when I confront her with her previous problematic views like saying my lesbian cousin is just confused and horrid shit like that. Idk what she truly believes but she won't ever say that shit again around me again after I explained how that type of reasoning has been used by bigots for centuries.
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Boomer is definitely a mindset. My parents are gen x and are some of the biggest boomers I've ever encountered
Not an american, but my Gen X brother has the exact same boomer energy because he's landed a labour aristocrat job that's relatively safe.
Even my actual boomer parents have more empathy for people.
Same with my grandma. She grew up in the south but moved to sf bay area in her early 20s, but stayed pretty republican however she has much more empathy than both my parents combined. She always comments on how sad it is to see homeless and gives them a few bucks quite often. Whereas my parents are just the typical, "get a job bum" type of shitty people. Honestly if I talk to my grandma about leftist policy she agrees on most of it, but things like Fox warp her mind with how they demonize it all, it's truly just so fucked up.
Her ideology is very contradictory but I also feel like she is so old it's hard in a way to "change" how she views dems versus republicans after being drip fed all that fox shit for over a decade now. It sucks, but I'm glad she is willing to learn and do better when I confront her with her previous problematic views like saying my lesbian cousin is just confused and horrid shit like that. Idk what she truly believes but she won't ever say that shit again around me again after I explained how that type of reasoning has been used by bigots for centuries.