Jeremiah

This was true as far as it goes, but making anti-whiteness a state ideology for 10 years sure did manage to have lots of hard-to-predict bad consequences, and I count the backlash against it as a consequence.

In any case, I'm not using this blog to design a propaganda project or build a coalition.

I just like saying things that I think are true.

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Joe and Seth write, quote, It's simplistic to say this about hate.

It's a shifting equilibrium, and while the greatest slash boomers built most of what we would call the modern world, it is not difficult to recognise that they're operating on shorter timeframes than most of the rest of us have to, and this drives some of their politics as a block.

I see this as the same argument against overwhelmingly the low-skilled segment of immigration.

Weird societies tend to be cooperative and trusting and think in longer timeframes.

This is a fragile equilibrium and is threatened by a demographic shift towards those who are more opportunistic and think in short time frames.

Look at trust studies across countries.

Yes, there's significant impact based on the government and support structures in place, but there's population level effects too.

Age is just a very obvious indicator of the same kinds of prioritisation.

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Scott writes, I'll reiterate the point I made in Why I am not a conflict theorist.

Although it makes intuitive sense that boomers being older would be more short-termist, these kinds of intuitive stories about how people vote in their self-interest are false.

Federal deficit spending is the clearest possible example of trading off long-term prosperity for short-term gain, but the young are more likely to support it than the old.

Climate change is another place where people are being asked to sacrifice now to prevent future disaster, and the generation gap is minuscule.

I don't blame people for not knowing this, because most polls try really hard to show the opposite.

For example, the first thing you'll find if you look up opinions on deficit spending separated by generations is questions about, should we decrease deficit spending which will probably involve cutting entitlements to the old?