After the 2017 GE I eavesdropped on some tennis club Tory turning the air blue about his granddaughter having voted Labour. "She voted for that Jeremy Corbyn just because she'd get free tuition. WHY SHOULD SHE GET FREE TUITION?"
His own granddaughter. The old hate the young.
His own granddaughter. The old hate the young.
The last few months have seen a flow of solidarity from young to old through mutual aid groups. The old are still planning on voting Tory.
The only way around this, really, is an opposition worth voting for an a more democratic electoral system.
The only way around this, really, is an opposition worth voting for an a more democratic electoral system.
Why do home-owning Boomers who hate their own grandchildren?
My theory is that they've internalised neoliberal ideology more than Gen Xers or Millennials because they've been in the labour market throughout the neoliberal era.
My theory is that they've internalised neoliberal ideology more than Gen Xers or Millennials because they've been in the labour market throughout the neoliberal era.
People my age or younger have been to some extent insulated from neoliberal mores by having spent part of the neoliberal era period in school, college, uni etc.
Obviously there have been attempts to introduce competition to the education sector, but they've probably been tempered by the likelihood that encouraging kids to embrace rugged individualism would lead to absolute bedlam in classrooms.
It also wouldn't be likely to produce the kind of pliant, supplicant citizenry that capital requires as its workforce.
