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There's a couple of different ways to think about this. When I was younger, I thought it so unfair that gay people couldn't get married, and I didn't know any mixed race marriages in my parents friends or my friends parents; women were still sort of oppressed, there wasn't great birth control even.
So I guess conservatives didn't have much to complain about; there were still scary rednecks around but that didn't feel political.
A lot of these things have been fixed now, but the people who saw the discrimination of the past as some sort of natural order are complaining about it.
So there were protests and all throughout my life but until recently they were people wanting progress, to fix inequality and discrimination.
Now that a lot of these things are mainstream accepted A-OK, the conservatives think it's time for the pendulum to swing back, but that doesn't make sense to most of us. I do have plenty of friends who are like that but we can't debate politics, it's not any nicer than online. Outside of the wacko beliefs they are fine, we connect in other ways around things we agree on and all of the kids are progressive so I think it's a limited time problem.
I'm not so sure that's entirely true, there are plenty of angry social regressives among the young too.
Well, all of ours are. And at least there isn't the tacit acceptance of 'how it is' so much anymore. I just always take comfort in the fact that the 3 men over 50 and 1 grandma may be voting regressive but me and 13 more offset them, between our kids and their partners. Plus one other grandma.