How was he popular in the first place
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Gen Z desperately wants change, any change and Dems were against change.
That's my take at least.
Half of Trump votes and a bigger part of abstentions are a protest directed at the economic system that, in the aftermath of Covid, got rich people richer while most people got reduced buying power in the form of inflation.
Then surprise surprise: sh!t policies and more inflation. Can Trump keep control of this growing rage or…
There's also a lot of incel Zoomers. I think that's where the bulk or his youth support came from.
It's so stupid because it's entirely typical for guys 12-22 to not be getting laid, and the boys who get sucked into this extremist bullshit shouldn't be thinking they are victims of anything other than typical adolescents. The dumb kid to neo nazi pipeline is really shitty and clearly still works very effectively.
Well, that's true, but the Zoomers are facing some unique headwinds. They're the first generation to come of age in a post internet era, and I've heard people argue that being inundated with social media as well as having such easy access to pornography is giving them a warped view of sex and personal intimacy. There's also data going back to 2017 saying they have less sex than previous generations. And on top of that, many of them had Covid interrupt what should have been their formative sexual years.
Anyway, I'm certainly not excusing any of these little shits that become Nazis. But when I think about how I was as an adolescent, and then think about what these kids have to deal with, I can definitely understand how someone like Andrew Tate could manipulate them.
It's more that Gen Z wants change without putting in effort. They (and millennials too) aren't voting in primaries at all let alone showing up in non Presidental elections so all parties are putting money and effort into candidates that appeal to older, more conservative voters that actual show up.
The younger people I work with and interact with on a regular basis that admit they voted for Trump say they didn't do it because he appealed to them but because they had some protest against Harris or Biden. Dems dropped the ball entirely this election but the majority of voters fail to turn out and prove their desire for change and progressive candidates is anything but talk.
There wasn't a primary to vote against Harris in though. I'm not bashing you, it's just that was a mistake IMO.
There was primary for congressional seats where the actual change Gen Z keeps saying they want will have to come from. And there was basically no participation there nationwide for their generation.
I see plenty of change coming right now from the office of the President though.
Racist parents have racist kids. That's my take.
I get that these kids were brainwashed a little but what bothers me is that it was never any secret what was happening to women's rights and LGBTQ+ rights but they went for it anyway. It wasn't some secret plot or trick, these people told us all exactly what they're about.
Even if they don't care about queer people, they happily sold out the rights of their own mothers because the word of some ex reality TV star meat head was more important to them. I feel like even if I was that age being bombarded by propaganda, I would've woken the fuck up the moment they started going after my mother and my sisters.
I actually saw a story on Reddit shortly after the election, that's a double whammy in this regard. It was a divorced woman who is currently in a relationship with another woman, telling the story of how her own son visited her and fessed up to voting for Trump and happily said out loud "I don't agree with gay people." Based on the reactions she described afterwards, this dumb piece of shit kid only realised that the people he was hating included his own mother, after it was already too late.
It's all fucked. I forgive these kids to an extent but I know that when I was that age, I did in fact have a sense of morality and could in fact use my own brains to figure things out for myself.
They voted for the memes, and are now in the process of realizing real life is not a meme
Yes but meme man named the department DOGE (/s)
Be aware: Newsweek put out a string of content before the election, making it clear that Harris was winning and that Democrats were in the clear when few other news outlets were being that optimistic. Recently, they've been putting out a lot of articles talking about how the Orange One is losing popularity. While I hope that's true, they definitely have a weird angle. Take their content with a big grain of salt.
Where can I buy large grained salt?
You can put a bunch of it in the microwave with a bowl of water to make a humid environment that might help it to form into a huge chunk. Then you can put it in a sock to persuade your local billionaire to stop fucking up society and the planet. I may have left out a few steps, what were we talking about again?
Kosher salt is large grained.
Little too late for that…
been kind of sad for me, the process of realizing these kids were fucking stupid.
i had really high hopes for some reason.
Growing up with social media.
I genuinely think the type of social media you use in your youth has a very strong influence on the type of person you become:
Instagram/Snapchat: Average, slightly sociable
Reddit/Tumblr: Insightful, knowledgeable about niche topics/social issues (respectively), better at writing, worse at socializing
Twitter: Argumentative, not really capable of cohesive long-form thought, great at one liners though
TikTok: Mindless beasts conditioned through a variable-ratio positive reinforcement algorithm to uncritically believe whatever thoughts China wants to insert in their brains: "The US is awful!!" Heck yeah! "Because of this, we're going to not vote/vote for Trump!" Wait, what?
One would think watching Nazi salutes on inauguration day of a GOP president going blitzkrieg all around the world, would be enough to forget about them reaching the White House again... but, seriously, this is the USA.
You assume they read about history and know what Nazis were beyond tiktok memes.
Looks like they missed that year in school.
Either all of the polling sites are lying or that impotent clown still has a 47% approval rating. Why? I have no idea.
I don't think it is young people that are the problem. Recall, it is largely billionaires and elderly statesmen that either supported the coup, or stood aside. Of all people, they should understand the consequences and it is their job to guide the nation. That includes telling people how neat government programs can be.
Our most influential people either failed to communicate, or are aligned with the plot to some degree. Young folks are too busy slaving away to dedicate time to politics, which requires time, money, and education. Things that society has consistently transferred towards the wealthy, while denying the poor.
Either USSA 18-29-years-old are weird, or newsweek is corporate shill. Mix in one bag
mass deportation plan, targeting of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, and suggesting that the U.S. will "take over" the Gaza Strip and resettle Palestinians from the area while it is rebuilt.
and ignore everything else.
Well, thank Faust, I am not in Memericas.
What do these numbers mean? How is there negatives?
I would expect a scale from 0-100
Edit: its a scale from -100 to +100
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