and we know that there is a causal relationship between academic achievement and progressive politics
Do we know that? That's actually a very strong claim, significantly stronger than the OP's claim of correlation. For a comment about skepticism of statistical links, your rebuttal is more problematic than the original claim.
Standing for the pledge is not a requirement. Neither is saying it. To try to force students to do either is an infringement on free speech.
Seriously, so fucking infuriating. How am I supposed to not be critical of the people who handed Donald Trump the presidency twice? And the first time they literally directed media outlets to prop him up in the Republican primary.
Right, I'm the problem with my one vote in a state that's gonna give their electors to the Democrat no matter what I do (but I vote for the shitty neoliberal in the general anyway). Not the elite class who gave our country to the fascists because that's what their donors wanted.
Just... no. Memory before 1998 is a terrible litmus test for a birth year cutoff at 1996. Perhaps you had too much lead exposure.
"Vote in the primaries!"
"I do but the party actively undermines democracy during those. Repeatedly, openly, and unashamedly."
"Yeah well they're allowed to just choose whoever they want anyway so you have to vote for the neoliberal in the general."
What are you even talking about? My point is that's not a good measure of the generational transition from Millennial to Gen Z. It's the wrong timing.
I was 5 when Pokemon came to the US, so I don't think it's fair to say I remember a world before Pokemon. I have memories from before 5 sure, but nothing that counts as knowing what the world was like. And that's not even counting hearing about Pokemon from my Japanese cousins before it came here.
I also don't think it's fair to say I can't understand how amazing Pokemon are when those games dominated my whole childhood.
I disagree, that puts the last few years of Millennials into Gen Z though. That puts me into Gen Z and I'm a few years before the cutoff.
That's almost a litmus test for the Millennial/Gen Z border (for the US at least). Usually remembering 9/11 means you're more on the Millennial side. Though generations are fuzzy and ill-defined.
Yeah, I don't know any couples my age who don't both work.
It doesn't really make a difference if both parents are working and make similar amounts. Then that part is no different from filing separately.
But was causality established? That's a very difficult thing to do. I'd like to read the paper if you can find it.
Because it's just as plausible that people predisposed to think critically are more likely to both go to college and move left politically in early adulthood.