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Same here. My dad was hard left hippie, but the step-mom was far right racist from Oregon. I ended up with half my family in Gen X, with me and my little brother as millennial.
But, most of us dropped further anarchist than just liberal. I think it all comes down to money. All of my family are still as poor or poorer than we were growing up.
Only when people become wealthy as they grow up really become more conservative I think.
I think that plays into it, but my most of these people aren't wealthy. They were all working class. And the most left of these people that I still talk to is is probably better off than most of the rest off them. But he's also financially comfortable because he was union.
But I think of lot of those people forgot how bad struggling really is. Nostalgia clouds a lot of opinions. I still tell stories and laugh about some things I had to do when I was struggling, and they can kind of seem like fun stories now that it's over, and the older I get, the less i think about how much it actually sucked.