I completely agree with you. There might be some exceptions but in general what you say is true: when there’s a sea change, a zeigeist, young people are the first to sense it. You don’t get sweeping changes and protests at the senior care facility.

I think it’s also that the young have less to lose and more to gain. Most gen Xer are sitting around on their hands because they stand to lose much more than they gain. They have mortgage and car payments, children, and health insurance. If anything breaks, that can all come tumbling down.

The key word is “widescale”. The reason is that a malignant narcissist can get a small group of cultists to do anything. But in order to get a large group of cultists to do something, he needs a propaganda machine like fox News and they have a much older demographic

There are a number of open weight open source models out there with all their data sourced from the public domain. Look up BLOOM and Falcon. There are others.

It’s been said that the election of facists is driven by the failure and corruption of liberal democratic governments. But in this case it was partly caused by the appointment of the conservative Merrick Garland as AG and the emergence of overt propaganda networks. A felon skated through an Election cycle because of no enforcement of the law and a lack of public awareness of how guilty that felon was.

Sure but when people demand deregulation and privatization get both it’s a little funny to see them sobbing their eyes out

Without any irony at all these people simultaneously demand deregulation of all industries

Fear and stress shut down empathy. But narcissists feel constant fear and stress. And we’ve made a hellworld that rewards narcissism