If they had mortgages to pay and property prices to protect, they would probably be a lot more conservative, right?
Turns out it isn’t as simple as that. John Burn-Murdoch, who authored the FT analysis,tweeted: “If Millennials owned homes at the same rate as boomers did at that age, they would be a couple of points more conservative, but only a couple.”
There are deeper issues at play. “The most likely explanation is a cohort effect – that millennials have developed different values to previous generations, shaped by experiences unique to them, and they do not feel conservatives share these,” wrote Burn-Murdoch. To put this in my own, blunter, terms: millennials have been royally screwed by an inequitable economic system and a runaway climate crisis. Only an idiot with loads of money would be happy with the way things are.
For the record, I am not an idiot with loads of money.
which makes me ageriatric millennial, and I certainly haven’t gotten more conservative as I’ve aged.
https://www.ft.com/content/c361e372-769e-45cd-a063-f5c0a7767cf4
Millennials are shattering the oldest rule in politics
Western conservatives are at risk from generations of voters who are no longer moving to the right as they age
Millennials — born between 1981 and 1996 — started out on the same trajectory, but then something changed. The shift has striking implications for the UK’s Conservatives and US Republicans, who can no longer simply rely on their base being replenished as the years pass.
