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Still regardless of how much you earn I struggle to grasp the idea that you'd view getting rid of the current perpetual shit show as a negative. Guess it shows it's good to get out of your bubble.
I was thinking about this last night, and how there's that old thing of people getting older supposedly starting to swing more right (not sure if this is just made up mind). But even if it's true, how can anyone swing as far right as the government has gone and look at them and think 'I used to be quite lefty/centrist but as I've got older it's all started to make more sense to me'.
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It used to be true, but isn't any more.
This could be a shift in social attitudes - e.g. It's not just that a teenager today is more progressive than a teenager in the 90s, but that same teenager in the 90s has more progressive views now as an adult, than they did then.
Personally I think it's more that the preconditions you need to support maintaining the status quo are no longer there. I know I use this example a lot, but if you took Sunak's parents from 1980, and put them in 2010 they would never have a shot at providing him the same opportunities.
But overall I think current Tory support will come from a place of true conservativism - i.e. I've always voted Tory and I think I will be better off.
hugo7
On my daily catch up (big bank/ops side) a couple of the older people, clearly aren't relishing an incoming Labour Govt due to taxes for higher earners, school fees, interest rates.
I couldn't keep quiet over interest rates and had to call that out. But I thought it was interesting.
Admittedly most of my peers who share my views are in a different salary bracket from these particular people, but many of them are on high salaries and want the Tories out.
Still regardless of how much you earn I struggle to grasp the idea that you'd view getting rid of the current perpetual shit show as a negative. Guess it shows it's good to get out of your bubble.