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i think having a mortgage was a seen in the US as crucial in the 1950s as a means of pacifying a population who also took part in the largest strikes in US history at the time and who had proved they were prepared to fight alongside communist, and indeed alongside POCs, for what they believed. Since then, states have found similar ways to tie down other generations to debt obligations, eg student loans, that contributes to good/normative behaviour. It is no surprise to me that it is children, who aren’t burdened by huge debts, who have been increasingly making the most noise to upset the status quo. i recently suggested to a group of my friends (in their 30s) that they were likely to shift to the right or centre as they edged towards 40. They laughed at me but ALL of them have since let slip various ways in which they have allowed for rightist ideas to inform their thinking or actions. Anecdotal evidence, of course.