I am 36, I was raised by Boomers and as a kid whenever you fucked up they would tell you to be responsible
But personal responsibility is a conservative value today. They generally want to be responsible for themselves and have the government do less for them and get it of the way.
So how did we get raised by people who seemed conservative but were actually leftists in the end?
A lot of them - okay, I was born just on the brink, I'm either a boomer or Gen X, except when the idea to name generations was first born that would have been Generation Jones, 1954 - 1965, because the conditions in which we grew up were different to the "actual" boomers, but because it was only a period of ten years that kind of got mostly added to boomers later - well, anyway, people my age and older still mostly trust the "experts", and that what they see on news and in television in general would be mostly true. Because that is what we were raised to do.
And what the news tell and what you see in all MSM now, and for several years, is no longer at all nuanced, now they are very openly pushing certain world views. But the change still happened slowly enough that a lot of frogs never realized, so they didn't jump out of the kettle and are still swimming in the hot water.
Younger generations seem to be rather more suspicious. I suppose it may be because they are in general still more curious about the world, older people often seem to lose that curiosity and start thinking that they already know how things are. And especially for the youngest, who are now either in their late teens or in early adulthood, the disparity between what the news etc claim, and what they can find out or see with their own eyes, is presumably rather more obvious.
But a lot of the boomers see what they expect to see: because they believe that the "experts", scientists, politicians etc are telling the truth, that is how things of course are. No need to try and look beneath the surface.
And yep, that "lot of" applies more to people who are, or were, during their working years, doing white collar jobs, have some sort of higher education, and mostly live in cities.
I agree - mainstream to conservative boomers (i.e. not dyed-in-the-wool hippies or lifetime union types) are basically too trusting of the ‘establishment’, including gov’t, medical, TV, news, and education etc.
Agree, they were raised that way (to trust). That trusting nature has been twisted and used against them on many fronts.
The programming has been going on for a long time now and is difficult, or near impossible to break in my experience.
There is another element not discussed much. There is an obvious ‘influence campaign’ on social media and elsewhere training younger people to ‘hate’ boomers. Basically blaming boomers for all of their own generations problems. National debt, housing prices, social security, pensions, etc. These foibles brought to us by the cabal are now being used to turn generations against one another. ‘Boomer Hate’ or whatever you want to call it is real and, in my opinion, being fomented & engineered to divide people.
Spot on, TaogTavov!