this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2026
544 points (99.8% liked)
Memes of Production
1443 readers
390 users here now
Seize the Memes of Production
An international (English speaking) socialist Lemmy community free of the “ML” influence of instances like lemmy.ml and lemmygrad. This is a place for undogmatic shitposting and memes from a progressive, anti-capitalist and truly anti-imperialist perspective, regardless of specific ideology.
Rules:
Be a decent person.
No racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, zionism/nazism, and so on.
Other Great Communities:
founded 2 months ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
On one hand, I recognize, from a neutral standpoint, that this is fucked. People become more right-wing with age because they acquire more that they can lose - not just materially, but socially as well - more family, friends, connections.
Instead of becoming deeply rooted in life, which engenders some limited degree of conservatism insofar as it prioritizes stability (ie, getting rooted doesn't make you anti-gay, but it might make you more anti-riot, because you don't want your kid or spouse getting brained by a stray brick on the way home from the grocery store), we're becoming literally less rooted in life. This is contrary to every generation since the 1930s. It is a sign of instability, which is bad - yet that it is instability indicates the need for instability - the current situation is untenable at any level of stability.
How fucked.
On the other hand, thank fuck I won't be in the old folks home with a bunch of fucking conservatives. We'll unionize when we get there and demand the good tapioca pudding, and give out hard candy to all the protestors while reminiscing about when we were limber enough to toss bricks through cop windshields.
Maybe, if that were the reason, but the reason they are conservative isn't because they are anti-riot, it's because they've been listening to the Conservative Propaganda Machine exclusively, and have been convinced by Traitors and Pervoids that gay people should be exterminated.
Stop thinking anything these psychopaths are doing is in good faith. There is ALWAYS an ulterior motive, and it is always more evil than we could have imagined.
I mean conservative in the broader sense of 'less inclined to revolutionary action', not conservative in the sense of 'aligned with the braindead fascism of the modern right-wing'. I think it's normal for a functioning society to see older and more rooted individuals as less inclined towards radicalism than they were when they were young and rootless. I think it's deeply abnormal for any society which wishes to remain functioning to see the exact kind of right-wing loons we're dealing with as a significant portion of any demographic.