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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.
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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.
Anecdotally this checks out. I and many people I know were unpolitical, even nihilistic, in their teens and twenties, and lots of us are now activists. Could never have seen myself doing any charity work or campaigning when I was younger, was just a selfish little shit
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'.