This isn't a joke either, they genuinely believe this.
In the words of my dad "you were predestined to care too much about basically everything"
Anyone else have similar family "explanations" for their leftist views?
This is a dumb post but I'm stuck in bed sick and feverish, I have to kill time somehow.
I heard a great argument recently that it's because they were born and raised during the peak of the cold war and told every day the world might end and they're all gonna die, and then nothing happened and their life went great so why give a shit ever
edit: the video I heard the argument from
That makes sense, mine tend to say "it will all work out in the end" when confronted with anything too worrying. I see it as a way to avoid having to think or change anything. They got theirs, they're too old to deal with anything bad now so they just look after themselves and hope for the best. Sadly that attitude fucks up their kids futures and they don't want to acknowledge that, so they have to tell themselves that it will all magically be fine in the end.
The Big Cope