As MellowWheat said, people don't become conservative as they get older. That's a myth. People just stop accepting new ideas and stop thinking they can be wrong. They stop changing basically. They get what they wanted, but once they do they don't want more so they end up just wanting to keep things the way they got them.

Also, even this I don't think is fully true. The boomers and the next generation or two mostly became conservative when they got older, but I don't know if this is necessarily the rule. They were just raised to be selfish. I've seen it with my parents. They just tend to think about themselves and their family first, and things happened to work out because the economy grew with them so almost everyone had enough, but that's not the case anymore. We need more cooperation if we're going to survive.

People stop changing around their 20s typically. But the world around them doesn't stop. This happens to almost everybody.

I'm not too worried. Tankies are prominent here, on the fediverse, but despite the mewling of cretins like GenZedong, are not particularly powerful in the latest gen.

I've noticed a lot of them are "puritan pilled." For example, growing up, if there were sex scenes in a movie you would say "yeah, that makes sense. People like to fuck and fucking is a big part of relationships. Showing people being intimate isn't really a big deal." But now, I've heard younger people complain about sex scenes in movies. Like, as if it should be reserved exclusively for pornography. Which is a very....reactionary cultural take. It's sort of ghettoizing intimacy, and it's very similar to the perspective of prurient Baby Boomers in the 1990s or 00s who wanted every movie that showed a penis to be rated NC-17. I wonder if the Zoomers won't wind up having a lot more in common with their Baby Boomer grandparents than they realize.

I've seen a lot of tankie zoomers, but the generation on the whole seems pretty woke to the difference between socialism and authoritarianism

So you guys aren't even upvoting this like "bro it's obviously a joke" you're upvoting like "yeah no I think we should just murder people who do bad things sometimes, maybe even pretty often."

The reign of terror french were pretty proto-red-fash tbch, people don't exactly consider very often WHY it was where the fiercest resistance to this lang d'oil region centered uprising was concentrated in regions like the basque country, bretton country, and the lang d'oc regions. It wasn't that they yearned for royalist ideals to be reinstated, it was because Robespierre and his even crazier backers were so paranoid by the end that something like movements for language rights were treated as exactly as traitorous as plotting to restore the bourbons to the throne with a counter purge to boot.

Something the modern revolution idealizing french seem to have made fully into one of their "the quiet part" policies with how they implement their version of laïcité.

"Authoritarianism is cool when "the people" are doing it"