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If you were born in 1900 you probably are at the tail end of the Lost Generation — the Greatest Generation is considered to be those born between 1901 and 1927.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Generation

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Lost Generation describes those who experienced WW1. Given that he turned 18 in 1918 it's certainly possible he enlisted or was drafted. The article implies he didn't join WW1. It's that experience rather than his exact birthday that would categorize him into Lost vs Greatest IMO.
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In the US, something like 98% of eligible men enlisted in WWI. There was no draft.

So yes, VERY high probability of service.

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Wild to think there were people who as adults lived through all of the railroad buildout, WWI, the 20s, the depression, and then WWII. Complaining about AI buildouts causing electronics prices to regress by a decade or so begins to seem rather trite in comparison.
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Well, then and the millennials
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> Perhaps due to those experiences, you will be the only generation that votes more left as you age.

I doubt it. My dad lived through the Great Depression, and fought desperate battles in WW2 and Korea.

As a young man, he was a socialist. His experience in fighting for American freedoms changed all that. Before he passed, he told me he regretted leaving me in a country that was significantly less free than when he was young.

I don't believe you'll find many communists in the greatest generation, especially among the war veterans.

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In 1994, the Greatest Generation voted D+7, higher than any other generational cohort.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2015/04/30/a-different-...

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Your link doesn't seem to cover the Greatest Generation.

Also, the Democrat party has steadily moved leftwards over time.

I don't have statistics, but combat veterans voice very negative opinions on Jane Fonda and her support for N Vietnam.

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> Also, the Democrat party has steadily moved leftwards over time.

the only way someone thinks this is if they have fox news blaring all day every day. the dems keep moving rightward step by step to appeal to "moderates" while the right wing keep moving the overton window even further right.

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Look at the 1994 graph. They're n/a in the 2014 for obvious reasons.
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> Also, the Democrat party has steadily moved leftwards over time.

What an absurd statement. During the Great Depression FDR was considering a worker's bill of rights that would guarantee employment. In the '60s LBJ used the specter of a dead president to push through the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts (which have been considerably undone). In the '90s, Clinton undid the what remained of the Federal welfare state in this country. In the '10s, Obama was barely able to pass legislation that forced people to buy health insurance. In the '20s, Biden's major achievements were largely spending related. So in what universe has the party steadily moved leftward?

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“Left” doesn’t mean socialism. In the long run, it comes out of the enlightenment period, quite literally.

Traditionally, the left is associated with small “L” liberalism, and the right is associated with small “C” conservatism.

Generally speaking, it has been a historic debate between whether the “natural” way things are is good and prudent (e.g., monarchs, religion, castes, roles, and norms), or if the way things are should be challenged to try something that seems better (e.g., liberté, égalité, fraternité).

When one of these ideas is successfully, it is often adopted by the right, when one fails, it is often abandoned by the left. Whether or not socialism is part of the left depends on whether folks on the left think it’s an idea worth trying. In America, right now, the vast majority are still quite hesitant to include it in their platform.

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> “Left” doesn’t mean socialism.

In American english it does.

> when one fails, it is often abandoned by the left

Rent control has never worked out (it results in a housing shortage), but proposals for more rent control constantly flow from the left.

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You are off by a generation. The Greatest Generation was born in the 1920s. This was the generation that produced the Boomers.

I knew my great grandparents. Most were born in the last part of the 1800s and lived through the First World War as young adults. They always seemed significantly less scarred by the Great Depression than their children (the Greatest Generation). There was a communist undercurrent to the Greatest Generation but they didn't get it from their parents.

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Lost Generation: adults during WW1

Greatest Generation: adults during WW2

Silent Generation: children during WW2

People born in the 20's would be split between Greatest & Silent.

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