MicroWave@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 days agoGen Z Won’t Save Usslate.comexternal-linkmessage-square139fedilinkarrow-up1308arrow-down115
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minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down3·9 days agoTurns out that growing up with a phone in their hand made a lot of them particularly susceptible to right-wing propaganda.
minus-squarestoly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 days agoI agree that this is the lesson, but it’s bolstered by decades of bad behavior by the previous generations who chose not to leave a livable world for their children.
minus-squareBMTea@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·9 days agoTen Z didn’t vote Trump in. They simply voted for Kamala less.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·9 days agoWhich helped Trump win.
minus-squareBMTea@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·9 days agoMaybe they bought into Kamala’s messaging that Trump had no chance and that even Republicans hated him. No point turning up if its as good as won.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 days agoThat’s not the message I saw. I saw him being considered an imminent threat, unlike in 2016.
Turns out that growing up with a phone in their hand made a lot of them particularly susceptible to right-wing propaganda.
I agree that this is the lesson, but it’s bolstered by decades of bad behavior by the previous generations who chose not to leave a livable world for their children.
Ten Z didn’t vote Trump in. They simply voted for Kamala less.
Which helped Trump win.
Maybe they bought into Kamala’s messaging that Trump had no chance and that even Republicans hated him. No point turning up if its as good as won.
That’s not the message I saw. I saw him being considered an imminent threat, unlike in 2016.