I think I said it before, gen z men are the most conservative young voters since the silent generation
(media.kotakuinaction2.win)
Comments (9)
sorted by:
Yeah, they have to be. They are minorities in their own countries with crazy female counterparts and said countries going to shit.
They grew up in the worst of the "White Men Bad" period, and the video games (from western studios) all suck now. Yeah, they're sick of it.
The modern Democratic party is a party by and for the HR department, and their candidate was the personification of that sort of scold. They suck all the fun out of everything.
Also if you're 18-24 you were either in high school or college during WuFlu, and the Dems were largely who were responsible for sucking the joy out of the most formative experiences of your young adult life. If they did that to me I'd be pissed at them too.
I disagree. I think people hoping Gen Z are conservative are going to be sorely disappointed.
Trump is not a conservative candidate. He's somewhere between a classic liberal and a fiscal conservative / average-ass boomer. This tidal wave of support is because people are absolutely sick of the Democrats. Like u/lgbtqwtfbbq said, the Dems are the party of wokescolds. They represent a bureaucratic dystopia where even laughing at funny memes is forbidden. They're unfun authoritarian party now.
That is why Trump' has so much support and why it's coming from a much broader group then the Rep's are used to. He's got the people nostalgic for when America was good. He's got the men who just want to be men without a federal HR department looking over their shoulders. He's got the people who think the left are the antichrist. He's got the people who are just sick of crime. He's got the people who just want to be taxed less.
These groups were not historically always under the same tent. I really really want this broad base of core-American-values voters to stick together. But if they go into 2028+ thinking Trump's mandate means that they have all that support for a Evangelical platform or anything like that, they're going to get demolished. And if we really do manage to put a big enough dent in the cultural damage done by the woke era, there's a strong chance individuals' priorities are going to shift and they're going to end up on different sides again.
tl;dr: Gen Z might be small-government conservatives at best. Which is fine with me. I just hope we don't end up in a purity spiral like the left and I worry about cohesion post-Trump.
One of the causes that the left started to take up in the late 00s that sadly was jettisoned was the idea of letting kids play and do errands unsupervised. I forget what they called it, but there was a whole movement that was a reaction to the "helicopter parenting" that had taken hold. But that idea of giving kids space to explore and create would have been much more appealing to men than what they're doing now.
Now the right seems to have taken up that mantle, probably because the parties at this point have effectively split along gender lines. I'm not sure the left is capable of reversing that, but if they are it'd probably require a James Carville type to be given unilateral authority to throw all the fags and hags out of positions of authority in the party.
They are absolutely not. They are probably going to be about as conservative as Gen X is now.
That being said, please remember that you're just thinking of Social issues.
The Silent Generation literally put full blown Democratic Socialists, Socialists, and Communists into power everywhere they went.
I look forward to enjoying one minute long videos of Millennials being yeeted into camps with maximum rizz.
Dayum if I'm reading this right, Gen Z women are moving rightward as well??
At about half the pace of men but trending right more