the reason young people are all of a sudden voting for right-wing parties isn't any of the reasons the media is imagining, and isn't some ideological shift, it's because the reality during the covid pandemic, which defined the youths of the current young generation, was that the democrats and liberals in general were the no-fun party and the republicans and conservatives (libertarians, really) represented the opposition to no-fun. joining the revolution meant siding with the republicans and the right against the no-fun of the democrats and the left.

that's not going to undo itself or go away.

that's probably permanent until some other cultural event changes it, 20 or 50 or 100 years from now. the next batch of young people will copy today's young people and etc. this is self-perpetuating.

the last similar cultural political shift was in the 1960s. what happened after 2020 is that opposing covid restrictions began to define the counter-culture, and it's going to slowly take over the mainstream as generational replacement sequentially removes the millennial generation from power.

as a musician, i'm actually happy to have a counter-culture back. there has been no counter-culture for my entire adult life. i wish i could get out of the house to experience it, but i'm stuck inside fighting with these stupid women trying to take over my apartment and steal my stuff. i'm on a path to a solution that will get me out to enjoy and participate in the counter-culture but it could take a while still.

it may be a better idea for liberals to try to take over the republican party, given that the authoritarian leftists in the democratic party represent a dead end, anyways. however, all of the symbols and marketing and relics of the democratic party are going to increasingly be a dead-end and a non-starter as they become moribundly unpopular as the covid-restriction no-fun emblems with an increasing share of the population, as boomers and xers and millennials slowly die out.