Do you notice a generation gap between left and right politics?
It's certainly true here in the UK, especially if you go off the voting patterns of the last election.
Yes, its traditionally been the case that younger people lean left anyway but this is much much more pronounced than the historic average. In the 1983 UK election, Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives were the most popular party among the young 18-24 age bracket vote has been over 30% for that party in almost every election. These days, Corbyn's Labour Party dominates the youth vote and 'Centrist Dad' is used as a semi-serious insult by leftists on Twitter.
I know that Bernie Sanders has most of his popularity with the young in America and I would not be surprised to find a similar situation internationally.
Is this a temporary thing or a growing trend? Is it down to the changing material conditions amongst the young or social attitudes?
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In my town in Canada the left is a bit odd demographic wise. The traditional parties including the communist and socialists are largely gray haired. Yet nationally the youth wing of the communist party was revived after demand from high school students. That being said groups like the IWW seem to be benefiting most from younger blood. The majority of young people seem to like the ideology but see the old parties as no longer viable and I am starting to agree with them.
@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow I'm involved with left Labour politics over here and when I go to meetings, I'm usually about ten years older and twenty years younger than everyone else there LOL.
A lot of older lefties are veterans of past struggles and got re-involved because of Corbyn. The younger ones are new to politics. My generation is the most de-politicised because our youth and political education coincided with the ideological and political dominance of neo-liberalism.
