Boomers are effectively Leftist, even the right-wing ones, if we're being totally honest.
These are people who believed that it was normal to work in one large Mega-Corporation at a single factory job all your life, and that the Labor Union was a very good thing that functioned as the center of your community. Don't worry, staying at your single Corporation for 50 years would merit you a small house in suburbia, a retirement for 5 years before you died, and you got your Social Security check so long as you registered yourself to the government.
That's how much damage 12 years of Roosevelt did. He was a Democratic Socialist, and he hilariously made people into Democratic Socialists on the Left, Social Democrats on the Right, and we've been pulling away from that ever since.
Most of these politicians were never conservative in the first place. They were crony capitalists and members of the establishment first-and-foremost who said whatever they needed to in order to get elected, then joined hands with the Democrats to do whatever served the establishment's interests.
Boomers are effectively Leftist, even the right-wing ones, if we're being totally honest.
These are people who believed that it was normal to work in one large Mega-Corporation at a single factory job all your life, and that the Labor Union was a very good thing that functioned as the center of your community. Don't worry, staying at your single Corporation for 50 years would merit you a small house in suburbia, a retirement for 5 years before you died, and you got your Social Security check so long as you registered yourself to the government.
That's how much damage 12 years of Roosevelt did. He was a Democratic Socialist, and he hilariously made people into Democratic Socialists on the Left, Social Democrats on the Right, and we've been pulling away from that ever since.
Meanwhile the "conservative" politicians were like "best I can do is lower taxes".
(and somehow taxes kept going up anyway)
Most of these politicians were never conservative in the first place. They were crony capitalists and members of the establishment first-and-foremost who said whatever they needed to in order to get elected, then joined hands with the Democrats to do whatever served the establishment's interests.