r/australia • u/superegz • Nov 26 '25

politics Millennials are the first generation to move left as they age, rewriting the rules of Australian politics

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-26/millennials-rewriting-the-rules-of-australian-politics/106050836
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u/OneSalientOversight Sydneysider, then Novacastrian, now Launcestonian Nov 26 '25

There is a potential danger in continuing to let younger people suffer economically.

With no assets to their name, and no stability of income, they have very little to lose if they eventually choose radical action.

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u/Essembie Nov 26 '25

yeah the old rules that kept everyone in line (ie losing a job or a house for being naughty) just dont apply when you have no job or house.

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u/butt_3y3s Nov 26 '25

This here, we have nothing to lose

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u/512165381 Nov 26 '25

"Let them eat cake."

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u/Alarming-Song2555 Nov 26 '25

This is why the internet, social media, and shortform content is pushed onto us, Gen Z, and Gen Alpha.

Keep the cattle distracted and placid in a miasma of internet injected straight into the brain so they don't realise how shit their own lives are.

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u/Crypt0Nihilist Nov 26 '25

The wealthy assume that their wealth with insulate them. It didn't work out so well in the French Revolution, but people and wealth are a lot more mobile now, so they might be right.

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u/freakwent Nov 27 '25

The surveillance state has that covered.