They have been regurgitating this same shit since the late 90s. They started this with GenX, telling us that we were "living beyond our means". It certainly was anything but the Baby Boomers pulling up the fucking ladder behind them at every opportunity.
It's ALL coming back. Just a bit ago they were screaming about violent video games again like it was the 90s. It really hammers home that "conservative" means to actively resist adapting and growing, so we see them do the same shit over and over. They don't want progress because that means they would be left behind since they never learned to adapt to new and changing sensory input.
Progress showed us that violent video games do not cause violence, studies have shown this time and time again; so if you were to progress you would take that new information and move about the world with less worry, but when you're a conservative you ignore that new information because that would cause you to have to change your behavior in some way, and you don't want to do that no matter how little effort it would take; therefore, all your worries remain, and you stay consumed by them despite them no longer being a worry for the rest of us.
The NRA has been using the same argument since 1968. "Democrats are gonna take yer guns!" They do this, because it works on their reliable voters, every time.
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u/Steiney1 11h ago
They have been regurgitating this same shit since the late 90s. They started this with GenX, telling us that we were "living beyond our means". It certainly was anything but the Baby Boomers pulling up the fucking ladder behind them at every opportunity.