Different young people are ready to change our politics and culture, but parliamentary presidency and presidential election continue to be geriatric. It’s not just the traditional politics of aging: infant custody has maintained incredible power and influence throughout their lives. Kevin Munger, a professor at Penn State University, found that gender conflicts are inevitable as infants retire but continue to exert political influence over differences, irreligious, and liberals. ‘developing ones. Institutions built are losing credibility, but we should not expect their power to diminish.
Guest: Kevin Munger, Penn State University
Study: “Century Gap: Why Babies Still Need American Politics and Culture”
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Matt Grossmann: Why Babies Rule American Politics This Week Over Political Science. For the Niskanen Center, I am Matt Grossmann. While many young Americans are willing to change our politics and culture, our parliamentary presidency and presidential election are independent. And this is not just a gap of years. The young baby craftsman has gained incredible power and influence throughout her life. Read also : Politics meets Santa Fe Pride rally | Home Affairs | santafenewmexican.com. How do developers take control and is there any possibility that any of the next generation will emerge as obese any time soon? This week, I spoke with Kevin Munger of Penn State University about his new book Columbia, The Age of Generation: Why Boomers dominate American Politics and Culture. He argues that generational conflicts are inevitable as infants retire, but they maintain their political influence over the most divisive, secular and liberal liberals. Institutions built are losing credibility, but that does not mean we should expect their power to decline. Here is our discussion, which began with a brief overview of his ballast boomer.
Kevin Munger: Part of the corner of the book is that there are a lot of things going on in the present generation and in terms of age. So I try to gather all of these into one sentence, which is a ballast boomer. So the fact is that today the infant generation is very strong as a generation and as a group of adults. So this has to do with a number of reasons. So I have no clear story of cause. This is why I have to turn this into a book rather than a paper, but generations are not taken seriously I want, and I want to show A, that yes, generations are an important part of American politics today. And B, that infant carriers are the most unique generation in American history.
Matt Grossmann: So tell us about how the book came to be and perhaps how it originated from your previous plans and work on social media, social media and changing time.
Kevin Munger: Yes. So I did not set out to study this. The fact is that in 2016, the world of digital political communication changed dramatically. There is a high priority on the study of misunderstandings, false news, and the positive findings from this study is that the elderly are more likely to be infected and share the misunderstanding. And that is the first step in moving on to this book. Second, I do some research trying to find out how people evaluate clickbait headlines and other types of digital media in a research context where the standard approach is to use online search to capture topics and conduct experiments- research experiments. But I notice that when I ask people to open a new page during a search and then come back to do so, like looking for a piece of information on the internet and going back to the search, there have been a lot of differences over the years.
So the elderly found it difficult to stop doing research at the time. And I want to find out why. This led me to the theory of digital reading, that there are ways to learn how to use the internet and navigate the online data environment, which is very different in the generational system in the United States today. So that’s the link between digital media and this book. And finally, as I continue to dig, it seems like this is a very important issue, probably something that has to do with digital media depending on who uses the same type of media and social media. news in the United States today. And finally I decided, yes, I can’t do that in paper. So I am going to write a book.
Matt Grossmann: So generations, especially with well-known generations, such as consultants and marketing consultants and people with no social knowledge have developed and are not very large in sociology, especially the idea that there is a species. cut off on some kind of birthday. So assure us that this is a matter of social science and give us a sense of when the array becomes real as a social and political player.
Kevin Munger: Yes. So the fact is, this is a very serious zeitgeisty idea. Of course in pop culture, people like to talk about millennials. And if you look at the course of Google trends searches over time, quite clearly the discussion of millennials began in about 2014. And then a few years later, we began to see some kind of response and people discussing boomers. But so it is clearly in the air. And I think that in fact, it has become so popular that it has slowed down any generational discussion while in fact it is a real issue. So the topic was presented in a logical way with the eminent sociologist, Karl Mannheim, who wrote a paper on the problem of generation, which did much research on it, but this came back in the early part of the century. 20, 1906, I. think.
So it has been the subject of scientific and social research for a long time. Even back to Auguste Comte, the founder of positivism is very interested in how generational replacement determines the rate of progress in society. So it’s a real social issue, and it’s especially important in the United States today, right because of the baby age. So in terms of emphasizing her uniqueness, she is the only descendant of the census. And another point that I have tried to bring up as many times as possible, the whole generation was awarded the Time Person of the Year award in 1967 as heirs, right? So they were inheriting a rich and unique world. And Time Magazine gave them the prestigious award of the year for being born. So this fact is obscured by the confusion between generations and jokes about baked avocado for millennials.
Matt Grossmann: But a lot of sociological research that tries to take time and age impact, and the impact of the organization has more impact on time and age than the impact of the organization. And that speaks to the impact of the party not usually having some kind of direct alignment with the popular generations and usually gaining many more generations, especially in politics. So I’m pretty sure it’s not a whole generation, but these particular generations make sense. And if so, how did they become so?
Kevin Munger: So this is a fair point, which is that these are not going to be places where if we look back actually, where the line should be drawn. So I think the best research from a kind of stubborn political scientist who doubts all this nonsense is a paper by Andrew Gelman, which looks at the impact of presidential confidence when young people grow up and see as they are. this leaves a lasting history on their part that lasts a lifetime. And obviously there are small generations that he and his colleague have discovered, that do not line up with the array established by the census and then by the research center. But one that suggests that these collaborative influences are a real factor in the specific division, which is at the root of American political behavior. So I think that the issue for generations now is the United States and the issue of these specific generations must come from the media.
So generations are certainly advertisers and researchers who are trying to understand the major pop culture. But these are also very strong in our society. These do not work outside the community. They continue to return to society, the species they place on it, and people incorporate them into it and use it as a source of origin. So I think we can look at, for example, the differences in rates between people today that are related to their birth rate. And it varies a lot.
Brave babies are probably a lot of people, sorry, people born in modern times, which means, I am a baby more than that of our garden than our garden or millennials. Millennials are actually larger than gen X, gen X is a smaller issue of finding arrays and so on. And gen Z is actually the largest. And it’s hard to say, of course, because of the problem during the years you’ve shown up. But there seems to be a meaningful story to be told about social media that affects how people know their age.
Matt Grossmann: So we also have, of course, significant changes in the number of people in these generations. You discuss the differences in the nature of race, which is very different. Of course there is also education and religion and similar changes. So what kind of social change is coming first to the smallest, such racial differences?
Kevin Munger: So that’s the problem with the modern union. And I can’t really answer in this book. And honestly, I don’t try. One of the things I do is when it comes to congressional hearings. So here it is easy to see the age change between councilors and senators, both older than ever. And we can see that there is a clear story of generations. Although this is briefly summarized, the people born during World War II are, in fact, very special. So people born between 1940 and 1950, are the ones who excel in gaining power today. So I’m not trying to solve the HPA problem except this issue. And that’s because I actually don’t think it’s the most exciting thing we can do.
So what I am trying to say, and why I am writing a book, to abandon the way I am used to finding a single reason, is to say that there are different reasons, many of which are not related, some of them are. related, but still different, those that lead to the current effect, which is boomer ballast, which is the inequality of managing the population, the economy, housing, political power, and the media that a century holds today.
And I try to say that this is the effect and what is the effect of that? What is the reason for this? Sorry. What does boomer ballast do? It happened to let us tell the real random reasons. We can point to different paths that all point to the same path. I can’t comment on the magnitude of these different reasons. And frankly, when it comes to how this historical fact is, I don’t feel it is important to link this to a particular time or even place. So what is meant is to find out the fact that American politics is different now than it was before. Boomer ballast is a way of thinking about it and then thinking about how it will affect American politics in other ways.
Matt Grossmann: So the big difference in the age group is participation. And, of course, it was as prominent in the Middle Ages as the one we are talking about. There has been a lot of talk recently that the youth will be a little more motivated and promoting democracy, but surely in 2018. there will be an overall turnout that will lead to more young people voting. But is there any sign that this could continue until 2022? And whether the system we are seeing under Trump and Biden in any form is a hindrance, should they be a hindrance to people’s perceptions of generational changes that could lead us to the path of democracy while young people and How old are you to vote?
Kevin Munger: So this is a long-term goal to get more young people involved in politics, but both in terms of age history they are very balanced. And there is a balance of influence of the party where each new party is less likely to vote than the one that came before it and even takes years. So we have some APC analysis, but taking 2018, I think, is unlikely to continue in 2022. I think there is little effort on behalf of any party, but especially Democrats. Try a little on behalf of any party, but especially Democrats to appeal to the youth base. The fact that the former politicians involved made this only in his face is not an easy fact. I think that young people in society from political institutions and even the voting process are as hard as they feel about non-representation.
I think the fact that they appear as a generation and this is a gap in every sense from the people in power makes them less likely to be truly happy about the possibility, say, in the 2024 general election. the longest-serving president again opposes the second-largest president. It has nothing to do with their worldly experience at all.
Matt Grossmann: This seems like we have no representation, so we are not going to try to increase our representation. Is there a way out of this if this is the system and this system continues?
Kevin Munger: I think the comparison case is helpful, which means that I blame the multi-party system on this issue. In other democracies, in Europe, you have a third party, which focuses more on young people. In most European countries, you have a green party where there are young candidates who can get involved early and this starts with a good system of youth political participation.
Their interests are represented by them, the people they represent are connected to them and their perception of the world and the experience of things and the existence of a party and gaining a foothold in parliament allow them to build associations, build structures- ginen. the practice of joining by more important means such as gathering and being party organizers and none of these are possible for young members of both parties in the United States.
If you are serious, serious in electoral politics, of course, you can go and become a member of the College of Democracy but after that, most people fall out of any kind of party movement in this two-party system, which is so . they go so far as to see the world and the things they care about.
Matt Grossmann: You also have a chapter on culture, how to reconcile things like Christmas music and old movie stars. How does this relate to this fact? What does it show? We talked about all these kinds of political system characteristics but it seems Boomer ballast goes beyond the political system.
Kevin Munger: Of course. This is a matter of comparison. Institutions in the US, which are simpler and, in large part, this means more efficient internet and social media, allow Boomer ballast to play differently than non-flexible centers like the two-party system or educational institutions or law schools. or things that are illegal to win such a novel competition, right? Doctors, lawyers, professors, young people cannot create other types of these institutions.
In social media, thanks to the proliferation of digital media technology, young people are increasingly creating social media for, through, and about themselves. We can find out in the mainstream media, which we still think of as the mainstream media but increasingly, only Baby Boomers social media, we are seeing changes in the trend being produced, which I argue as part of the larger theory that in a modern media economy, demand often results in its own prosperity because media producers can measure the needs of their audience.
You see the average age of movie stars is increasing. The issue for individual cases is clear. All of the remakes and the influences of the movie industry today include real actors as they are in the Baby Boomer’s movies.
If Tom Cruise is the youngest but Boomer actor, rightly so, then there is the sequel, which is the new Top Gun movie, still playing the same. He himself still. We couldn’t find a new movie star in this media environment, the level of Tom Cruise, until the number of requests of Tom Cruise in particular, due to factors related to the life of Baby Boomers and the economic instability and time power of … t get new movie stars to join this venue.
This is only one area where it is easy to measure, right? There’s a lot of good information about who’s been in movies for a long time so I can do it, but if we look at the one that dominates big slots in cable news, for example, or other major media outlets today in general, they tend to be quite old too. There is no excuse for young millennials who want to get into this system to try to work with the system, given that there is an opportunity to go and create a YouTube channel where they can talk directly to ga. their audiences, find out what their audience wants, and give them this in a conversational style, which is different from mainstream media.
Matt Grossmann: You also look at how people are discovering their true generation and you see what kind of Boomers are the first, of the second millennials. Why is that? What impact does this have?
Kevin Munger: This goes back to Mannheim’s theory of generation, and it has to do with the idea of one place. There are people born at the same time who face the world in a similar way, which gives rise to the idea of design and people who consider themselves as such.
The Boomers, again, is a historical anomaly in terms of the world they inherited being very different from the world that came before and from virtually all the rest of the world we have ever experienced in terms of broad base, economic development, new media technology. broadcast media, which manages to balance people with connecting them with experience to university and university as what will lead to more people in this generation.
For millennials, the story looks similar but different. The reality of the situation in this case is a little… They are forced. The fact of the baby boomer ballast itself is what has been the cause of the millennium, precisely because of the age-old history of older people complaining about young people, precisely because there are so many older ones and they are dominant in the media and other fields. culturally, this leads to a great deal of interest in millennials as well, which in turn increases the thousand-year understanding of self.
I think this is actually a different system that happens with Gen Z, which has to do with the fact that this is the first generation that was first raised on social media that was created, by, and about themselves . There is a special break in broadcasting values and principles and everything that social media represents. The fact that Gen Z has been using social media since he was a child means that long-term social media predictions of social and economic development have been shattered. This means that what … Gen Z is just a fanatic, can be very different than what came before in an impossible way in a different media technology system.
Matt Grossmann: You also ask generations about the issues and the exact type of Gen Z that emerges here while meeting the stereotype of what young people are concerned about, environment and education, over the years thousand. Have we made the mistake of dividing my head and dividing my age?
Kevin Munger: I think that undermines the reality of what was put in place. I think it is possible that the age of millennials is more similar to Gen Z, and we see this in cultural expressions, the idea of young millennials is related to Gen Z and there is… as if we were doing this inductively.
They are very concerned about climate change and the debt of college students and improving mental health and even gun control. These topics differ from the more important ones, according to the older ones who are most concerned, as you might expect, Medicare, Public Safety, public health in general.
Matt Grossmann: Gen X has emerged for a lack of generational awareness. The funny thing about this is that you would expect that from the ideas of Generation X most likely, that they would get to interact with each other about this. How do we see this generation?
Kevin Munger: Well, I go out and make fun whenever I can. Mostly because many of my many colleagues are Gen X and, in fact, they and many other people I have encountered on Twitter are frustrated about leaving this conversation.
The story of the culture you describe is irrelevant. I think it doesn’t matter, though, more than a simple fact, that there are more, less Gen X-ers than there are either millennials or Baby Boomers. This continues to revisit the importance of demographics as the driver of American politics, which is not highly valued.
We like to think about things that have political solutions or those that we can talk about in an interesting way but the reality of the demographics is determined by random decisions and random opportunities from decades past. There is nothing that we can do about them. There are no interesting things to be found. However, the earth is human. The people we have are divided according to age in a special order. This applies to everything from birth to how strong the economy is or how weak it is to politics, because the average number of voters of all ages focuses on young or old.
I think that only focusing on the humanities as a cause of many things is unacceptable, especially because we like to focus on the causes and effects that are close by but here the causes and effects are different for many years.
Matt Grossmann: That means we can predict the best things that will happen in the long run in the future and the prediction should be over a thousand years, and everyone will be upset because the birth rate has fallen for thousands of years. What do you think?
Kevin Munger: This is where different paths are cut in different ways. It is true that census is an important method by which millennials have an advantage over other generations. If we look at other factors that Boomers have to gain that have increased their demographic power, including economic power and control of large institutions, millennials are lagging behind on these. I think this is common, increasingly common among specially designed, people, early thirties… The housing situation in big cities is just infidel. It’s a big obstacle to how we think our lives are going to go and it doesn’t seem like it will change anytime soon.
This issue, which seems to be a domestic issue, is, in fact, for thousands of years in millions, an important problem in society today. This is the kind of thing that means that millennials will be a strong force but the way in which these different benefits combined for Boomers will not be available to millennials.
Matt Grossmann: Follow us through these steps. First of all, it’s about food, how much of a baby’s representation in the political arena and then follow us in other ways for it.
Kevin Munger: Yes. The census is the first. Then there is the main source of economic growth, which allows them to participate in the process of developing themselves as they wish and then I think it is the control of many big institutions. The golden age of high schools was in the mid to late 60s, many people who still run our universities today got their PhD at that time and entered the best working market for PHDs ever and entered the best market working for PhDs forever. And so they still have some kind of glue. Many developers have been able to start this process of buying a home and accumulating property early and are well on their way as a result. And the size of the population and these political and economic benefits have played a role throughout their lives to give them specific political achievements. For example, the Constitutional Amendment that reduced the voting age to 18 took place for Baby boomers. So this kick started the social political system for people between the ages of 18 and 21. And it happened because of the political power of the young people who at that time were Baby boomers. There is only one example.
I think another important example is the 2008 financial crisis where the government spent trillions to ease costs as a way to address the financial crisis. They can invest the money throughout the economy. They have chosen to do so in order to provide mortgages, which are not suitable for infants. So there are various political reasons why they chose to do so, but the fact that the political elites have the power and that it has to do with politics to give them government resources adds to them. during their lifetime.
Matt Grossmann: So you look at support for young and old candidates and you get some evidence that understanding generation is related. But to me it does not seem like strong evidence that we are in a kind of polarization of generations based on design. So we have this good boomer idea that people have knowledge of generations and not just their own, but in relation to another, in relation to this debate which is usually dismissed as an online discussion. So, that may be part of the generational debate. So I think to what extent do people see it as the polarization of generations and the arguing of generations? And how do you interpret your arguments on supporting young candidates, young and old or young and old who give priority to candidates in this regard?
Kevin Munger: Well, yes, I have a research test, which looks at whether young or old are prioritizing partners and people who give priority to issues that affect their age in particular. There is a significant impact on the medium. They are not as big as you say, but this is a form of conjecture. And when we go to the real example of the first world democracy, there are a lot of differences that candidates choose over the years. In fact, the term distance gap refers to the time in sixty years when young and old people have different political priorities. But these differences are greater now, in terms of the division of Republicans, Democrats and much more within the Democrat party, the division of heads.
I actually think at this point we lost a little bit back to the Republican primary in 2016 so, but before Trump closed everything down, there was a similar split in the headlines where Cruz and Rubio received the largest share of votes from the youth. than Trump. Trump wrapped it up quickly. Thus the overall target in primary, there was no significant age reduction. But I think this exists in both parties and in the Republican Party, for some reason it dominates the corner of the race race, but in the Democrats, it is the clearing of the division head.
Matt Grossmann: Although it makes sense? I mean, to what extent do people see it as a division of heads and ideologies or a built-in phenomenon or something in those lines? And do people see this online discussion about racial diversity, this is a lot of fun?
Kevin Munger: I’m not sure how to break this down and sort out why, which often motivates us, but the fact is, these things are very relevant today. This age and policy priorities and media style are all closely linked. So people themselves go into the polling booth and say, “Who is the candidate of the thousands? I want to vote for a thousand years?” I can say for sure that it is not so, but are they using the media in a context in which perhaps a thousand years will provide the political elements that are relevant to them and those that they encounter on a daily basis? Maybe yes. So there are many ways in which this division of the head can play through the desired elements. Mindfulness is what I really think. I think there is a lot of research on different types and how people themselves assess these different groups really affect their behavior. I think this is not one of the top three on these scales though.
Matt Grossmann: And is there an analog type of non-discrimination that this is not only people identify with their own generation, but they appear as opposition to someone else?
Kevin Munger: I find that young people, I think Gen Z and Millennials are more likely to oppose a politician who says they will give priority to issues that older people are concerned about. So if there is, it seems he is upset about the old direction.
Matt Grossmann: So you see that public policy is focused on helping the elderly. And this is, of course, a frequent study, to what extent can it be explained by kinship and generational integration?
Kevin Munger: So the long-term welfare of the United States has a higher proportion of what goes to the elderly than any Western democracy. And usually this happens because of the lack of spending money for those who are not elderly, but while the elderly carry a large population and live longer, this spending becomes more important. So the most obvious issue is the issue of social security. So Doug Arnold has a new book on social security reform, which is good in what I rely on a lot of this fact, but it is clear about predicting the future, the table of events can not be set that is after social payments. mountain. And it has become clear over the years that some form of reform will take place to address demographic change.
And Congress has spent years banning a small amount of social security taxes, which could go into baby boomers when they are in the workforce and earning money and paying them in social security amounts to a minimum. they need to do that. to ensure full utilization. So as a result, the debt of social security is higher than what should be taken at the current price. And what will happen is that at some point, the lines will cross, the revenue will be less than the money going out. And they will either cut social security payments for retired journalists, or increase taxes on young people who are still working. And it will not be the first because of the power of older societies politically.
Matt Grossmann: So they can stop the change, but I guess, are they responsible for the initial inequality? So, we can think of many other reasons why public policy is more focused on helping the elderly, but of course there is news that ARP as a group and other political influences of different generations of news are affected by this. . So should we combine the two? Boomers dominated politics and politics, as a result of which their interests were diverted.
Kevin Munger: Yeah, so the concept has always meant people who are more selective and more influential and are members of influential organizations. And this has always been older on average. So of course, that impact is what led to the system we have today. But even if infants are not elderly, when they are in their early teens, we can solve the security problem by increasing their taxes. And we did it not because they were strong, because they were a powerful political party. So I think these two impacts both of these methods are working and will soon work again in the same way.
Matt Grossmann: So of course you study technology changes on a regular basis. And of course this is the most indicative of the description of these generational lines. How should we deal with changes in the use of technology as the first way that generations are evolving?
Kevin Munger: I think to a great extent, I think media technology is growing in a world and in a world where media technology is more available than at any time of our working lives, obviously it is strong for whatever happens . And as I said before, the way social media allows young people to make their own media is a new phenomenon in the history of social media. So I think the media is an important part of the story.
Matt Grossmann: And I mean, I think, there is an argument on the other side that this is some kind of distraction? As you said, those who really jumped were described as having a very high birth rate, that is, they were born with many people like them. So it doesn’t seem to match what it really is about the real media and communication technologies they have.
Kevin Munger: Absolutely. So when it comes to the kind of argument I’m trying to make, the kind of story I’m trying to tell here, these are the ways in which there are. I believe that. When we speak or when you read the same article, it will emphasize one of these approaches. I would say that both exist. The question we would like to ask is one of them expressing 40% of the differences, and the other expressing 30% of the differences or vice versa? And I don’t feel this is something we can respond to with the information we have. So I think these are the two ways that exist. I think these are powerful ways that describe what is happening in the community.
Changing media technology will be a powerful process when media technology changes, but not when it does not. So there is no such thing as a long-term permanent answer to this question in terms of if the birth rate has been around for a hundred years and the immigration rate has been constant, then demoography would not matter, but for now. And this explains a large number of differences. So we should think about that when we describe what is happening in the United States today.
Matt Grossmann: So, as you mentioned, the issue of generation gap was very high in the 1960s when at least politically the differences were not as strong between the generations as they are now. So why did we have this interview then? And how does it differ from the conversations we have today?
Kevin Munger: The end of infant development has been a historical phenomenon in every way. So they differed from the previous generations in the way she appeared to the commentators at that time, obviously. So the reality of their rebellion, it was a story like that, but again, different then Gen Z and the media today, the reality of the wealth in society, letting them be the rights of the youth is another story, right? So the previous generations did not have the same mentality of adolescence and the same mentality of economic security that the developers had, which was to allow them to create what Boomers had, which is allowed them to create a new ideology or revolutionary way. being in the world, it emphasizes the independence and the various social structures on the ground with this. So, I think, progress in American society has been very strong in terms of how generations have affected each other, but the Baby Boomer generation is the first and the generation gap in terms of how people in the same family face challenges. the world is very different.
Matt Grossmann: But again, I mean, it’s also a caricature, right? There weren’t many people in college when the picture of Baby Boomers was that they were all in college. What does it look like, I think the caricature of Baby Boomers at the time to the caricatures we have today for teenagers?
Kevin Munger: I think media technology at the time was the most responsible for understanding the integration of generations. So the idea of rocket music and their use is something everyone experiences, right? The Beatles, everyone has Beatles and their parents don’t. So this is what creates a sense of community among young people. College, then Vietnam, The Vietnam War was the main area in the Boomer century. So this division played a role in American politics today. McCain / Kerry’s election was about Vietnam in the first place, which also spoke of infant strength.
So of course, there are differences in how individual Baby Boomers face the world, but on the other hand, so if we think about the real things that matter when they come together. So Baby Boomers also have the highest level of integration. So they were the smallest racial minority in American history. If you are thinking of building racism and white supremacy for immigrants like Black Irish and immigrant Jews who eventually became white, they are being discriminated against. Baby Boomers are more similar and traditional for some real reason than past or future generations, which also contributes to an understanding of each other’s origins. And again, these would mean that you have to spend for these processes. And everyone is talking about them as a census. This is the history of the first century America that has been defined as organized by the census. So of course the media affects how we think about the world, right? So this went back to their own thinking and became strong in American politics.
Matt Grossmann: So how should we think about the impact of age, especially in predicting what will happen in the future? Should we expect years of impact on integration and on the right path? That is, should we expect young men to start intervening and start walking right away either by age or with various adult changes, such as having children, home ownership that may have been delayed for more than a century? behind?
Kevin Munger: Yes. I mean, the impact of these years is well documented. So I don’t think there is any reason to think that they will not happen here. How old is she with these things in life? This is more difficult to solve, but I think both are definitely based on what you describe. Then I tried to get into new research on this long question. Do people become conservative as they grow up? This is a myth that Thomas Jefferson is making a joke about if a non-Democrat is 15 years old, then they are not good, but if they still have a Democrat at 20, then they also do not have excellence. which speaks of how life conditions were different at the time.
But yes, this idea is, it is normal everywhere that it is almost as old as being conservative. It does not mean anything else. So when we try to put our measures on, do you want the tax rate to go down or what is our particular conservative view, if they do not fit into the story that everyone believes in, that people are bigger. conservatives as they get older are worse for our standards.
Matt Grossmann: Well, in the modern debate, it’s very important because if you just take the people who are doing the research they are saying, “Well, let’s take a look at what will happen to the changes in the number of votes cast. do it in time, here are all 20 states that say. They will move to Democrats this year if there is no change. ” , there has not been much for a thousand years, for example, and the response to that has been positive, all of these factors. different millennials, getting married and having children later, have homes, permanent homes later delay those, these influences. So for me, it is important to work out that if we are trying to evaluate this, this article, at least the possibility that these generations will continue to exist in the way they have.
Kevin Munger: So, but by conservation do you mean choosing a Republican?
Matt Grossmann: This is certainly one result of conservation impact, but I think I don’t agree that taking the issue is the best way to assess that. If we were to assess their potential for Republican election, we would finally like to look at factors related to whether or not they voted Republican, which included additional ideological criteria.
Kevin Munger: My story here is something like, in terms of predicting the future. The boomer’s ballast perspective is helpful from these, sorry, demographic stories, because it says, “Yeah, that’s right, in the end,” but everyone is wrong about when it will happen. People say, “Why hasn’t that happened yet?” And I say Boomer power has not reached its peak yet. So if we look at the number of people who will turn 65 in 2023, next year, they will be bigger than ever or in the history of the United States. And these people have unparalleled economic potential. They will have the wrong time to dominate the political media and get involved in politics. They run the two political parties, and their influence in the big political institutions will increase in the next five years, maybe 10. And I think that what makes the world feel amazing is because of the institutions we with them. preventing revolutionary internet technology and the value of young people from real impact on issues related to how the country is run.
And so there is this big tension between the fact boomer ballast is encouraged by all these factors and young people just feel distant from the whole process. This means that I think most of the long-term research on the subject of position change may not be relevant at this time. So, as a result, I can say that perhaps the party that will win in the 2030s is the first one that can embrace the youth and their affairs.
So if they can start this system of building partial trust among young people who are far from the system as a whole, this will be the story that finally comes to the fore after Baby Boomers finally saw the power. And I think part of that would be the balance story. I think that coalitions as they are in terms of issues and organizations that are important, many of these organizations will not exist. So you talk about gradients, the relationship between age and religion now. The religious aspect of conservative alliances is significant, but the number of religious leaders among young people has dropped dramatically. So this is something that is not important in the community, so it will have less power to attack in any kind of alliance.
Matt Grossmann: How prominent is the United States in generational politics? Of course the institutions are different, but most of the power we are talking about should be in the world, or at least in the world in the rich world. So, to what extent do we share the same views and influence in some areas?
Kevin Munger: I think it’s very different. I think the UK has Baby Boomers. I think that other generations, other countries, Germany, for example, have different historical experiences in the memory of many people. And so the destruction of generations existed there, but it was very different. So I actually don’t think this is going to be very common at all. I think it was unique with all these things that were unique in the United States at the time. And I think it’s good news in many places to see how the internet allows young people to play a role in their economic, political life.
Matt Grossmann: How can this work you do on generations affect your other work on the use of technology and its impact?
Kevin Munger: Yeah, so I focus very much on new political systems, which are attacking young people and trying to understand style. So I think it’s true at the moment, the AOC representative has a different approach using Twitter and that young millennials in Congress are doing it a different way. And I’m trying to figure out how to do that and see how that works. To try to update the concept of home style, to become a digital home style, to see how snowmen interact with young politicians who use the internet in a way that suits them and how it affects this process of politics and dissemination.
Matt Grossmann: There is a lot to learn. Political science is available weekly from the Niskanen Center and part of the Democratic network. I am the host, Matt Grossman. If you like this discussion, I recommend looking at the following, Ethnic Demonstrations, Violence, and Backlash, How Marriage and Insecurity Strengthen Strengthen the Strengthening of Professionals, How Social Media Strengthen Strengthens Voting, How Happy Residents and Interest Groups Rule Local Politics, And Immigration Policy is California’s Past, the Future of Republicans. Thanks to Kevin Munger for joining me, please check out Generation Space and listen next.
