great documentary about the RW hate machine and how it has impacted your age cohort (and other, but especially Boomers and before).
The Brainwashing of My Dad
I am 24yo, but only lived in the US for a couple years as an adult (I was born in Los Angeles, but we moved back to London, where I was raised, when I was less than 2yo) so I am not in the 'real life face to face' position to truly answer your question. I skipped grades in primary and secondary school, so most of my closest friends are 3 to 6 years older than me. Overall I get on best with 2nd half Millennials (say born 1988/89 and up) and Zennials (what I am, those born 1992/93to 1997/1998). The differences in a few years now seem to make a bigger difference than before. I see a larger difference between myself and a person born in 2002 or so as opposed to me and a person born 6 years earlier, in 1990. Some of that, I fully admit, is simply due to lack of adult experience in the person born in 2002.
RW brainwashed assholes in the US and the UK seem very similar to me on many points, and a lot of that is due to the RW media and internet/social media infrastructure harmonising the propaganda. The US ones are often far less on events going on outside the nation through. I am just gobsmack at the provincialism exhibited by a staggeringly huge amount of the US populace, especial the rural parts. I would go completely fucking mental if we had to live out in the middle of nowhere in a Red State. Probably would be instantly in real physical danger as well (I am a mixed race married lesbian who takes no shit from berks, I am not so good at suffering bullies, racists, homophobes, and fools). Dozens (hundreds probably) of the stories told on here about interactions with RW Q-MAGAts and other assorted rotters makes me SO grateful I have to barely put up with that shit in my real life.
Sorry I could not answer your question better.
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