Yes... but I'm probably not going to last long, as there's already a pretty huge bias here...
I have not received a wonderful welcome here with my lack of political affiliation, and your comment speaks directly to it.
I'm much less inclined to forums with a Republican bias though, so I'm here, and hopeful. If you want the wishy washy motherfuckers that flip flop their votes and basically decide elections these days to hear your side and not theirs, maybe you could be slightly less intolerant...
I don't believe this is going to be the case currently... the trend towards conservative was a fiscal phenomenon, as young kids who didn't have a lot of money and wanted a welfare state grew up and became financially independent, they wanted to keep what they were working to get. This would cause a self centric migration from trending democrat to trending republican.
That isn't how the partisan tribes currently work... They've become more of a "morality" enterprise, on both sides.
The choice is now if you think it's appropriate to ban huck finn and Tom Sawyer for the n word, or ban homosexual references. It's a question of do we spend taxes on blacks and the poor, or do we spend it on cluster bombs for Ukraine.
I don't think people will evolve from one side to the other the way boomers did. I think they're evolving farther from center, on both sides.
I don't like book bans period. I don't like the budget growing exponentially period. I don't like that 99% of the population increasingly wants the other half to be completely discounted... I'm essentially evolving towards not liking anybody at all.
I don't think "liberals" are going to become more "conservative" as they age, because that scale is divorced from party politics. Liberal is no longer a democrat trait, and conservative isn't purely republican. Both have adopted the entire con/lib scale in their own way. Democrats have conservative values, republicans have liberal values (the latter to a far greater degree, but I don't think it matters tbh). Just depends on what issue you're talking about.
Dude... My mom had a shit-vette... I was driving that fucking thing to the store one day and the clutch and brake pedals both dropped to the floorboard with a thunk...
It was definitely a Chitvreolet ;)
Bullshit... We had yugos, le car, citations, chevettes... People bought that garbage when we had it to buy, but they've figured out that a car that falls apart faster than you can pay it off isn't really a great idea. Paying half the new cost for a vehicle after 40k miles is a much better way to go.
They got a bunch of a valuable resource, and they're going to maximize its value by... not selling it...? So they've been taking lessons from debeers I guess?
Here's how that plays out when it's a critical resource and not a frivolity... the people who critically need it will establish the resource somewhere else. Lets say you own 50% of the current output. That 50% will be made available somewhere else somehow, because it's critical. Now your 50% is only 33%, and it's criticality is significantly less, and you can't sell it for as much as you used to be able to, IF you can even sell it at all, because you were a dick when people needed it and didn't have it, and the world remembers that kinda shit for a while.
And of course, if it's critical enough, there are some pretty big militaries out there that might come knocking...