How exactly did the hippies age into Regan voters? What was the actual mechanism behind it? It wasn't just "real life" or whatever, there had to be a reason
>>538996824>What was the actual mechanism behind it?maturation of the mind.stop living wrong.
>>538996824Television
Because they were low-IQ tenable trend-chasers. Bad music and not bathing to a literal brainless golem is a logical pipeline.
They were the prophet generation.
>>538996824cocaine and Mondale
>>538996824Jimmy Carter was a leftist bimbo and ruined your economy so bad that you had to ration gas and inflation was almost 20%. At the same time the iranny trannys kidnapped 66 of your diplomats and were holding them hostage threatening to execute them on TV.Reagan said he'd have the hostages released or else and they were immediately released literally minutes after Reagan was inaugurated
>>538996824a marxist's friend was killed by the panthers
>>538997075Why is cocaine so awesome
>>538997458it really isn't, you should try MDMA and LSD and Ketamine
>>538997458Because society rewards impulsivity, as it's the easiest kind of behavior to exploit, and cocaine makes you impulsive without also making you retarded, unlike alcohol
>>538996824They got tired of living with little money and it broke them until they submitted to capital and all became business owners. They're all hypocrites and traitors.
>>538996824Pulling up the ladder on their own kids
>>538996824Because boomers became whatever benefited them the most in that moment. In the 60's it was being a carefree, anti-establishment hippie. Just have fun, have sex with some recently sexually liberated stacy slut, play frisbee on the college Quad. In the 80's it was being a yuppie careerist, climbing the corporate ladder, importing spics for cheap labour, and gutting social security.
It was always a movement without a spiritual center. It would inevitably lead to disillusionment with itself, and the capitalists/state/mainstream was the only path open when they wanted to stop LARPing.
>>538996824reagan ran on pretty libertarian rhetoric as i recall, and was considered an outsider. it won over a lot of who you'd now consider liberals or lefties.
>>538996824constant exposure to hippies
>>538996824>the actual mechanismtrend hopping traitors.
