The really weird thing about this election, which this analysis here repeats, is that a majority of young, especially young male voters went for Trump.
That is bizarre, because the political platform of Trump, the GOP, and especially Project 2025 is a frontal assault on young people. From reproductive rights to recreational drug use, from LGBTQ+ rights to employment rights, from access to universities to access to health care. Everything in that platform is meant to take from the young and give to the old, because the old have been reliable voters for the GOP.
It is not surprising that Trump suddenly polls tragically bad with GenZ after the vote. The question is, how could GenZ voters fall so easily for the mirage of lies? That’s the same people that accused Boomers of voting GOP because of lead poisoning, after all.
The youth are more susceptible to algorithm propaganda. The ones that didn’t get sucked down the right wing rabbit hole took the Palestine protest vote bait.
This. They’ve been honing their propaganda aimed at the youth for a couple decades now. It got me when I was 18 and, tbh, I don’t know if I would’ve broken out of it if I wasn’t gay. The “don’t tread on me” part of the propanda was really what sucked me in, then I saw how hard they fought against people like me having the same rights as them and realized they were full of shit. Young people today are going through the same thing, but with even more sophisticated propaganda to initially hook them.
That’s kinda what I was saying… lol. They’ve been really focused on indoctrinating young men for decades. They know they’re going to lose a certain amount of them, because their policies are deeply unpopular, so they’re banking on being able to get enough people while they’re young, then keep the wool pulled over their eyes.
And now they have all the big tech players on board! YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and X (of course) are all happy to algorithmically lift far-right content, and let right-wing bots comment on anything to sculpt narratives.
We are fucked. I’ve tried talking to some of these people, and they live in an alternative reality. Discussing facts is questioning their reality, and it puts them hard on the defensive.
“The pen is mightier than the sword” and they have all the pens.
Because “youth” is not a block, just as “Boomers” is not a block either.
A lot of young people are against LGBT rights, oppose the liberalisation of drugs, and care little about women and reproductive rights (including women themselves!).
GamerGate involved mainly young people, for example.
The really weird thing about this election, which this analysis here repeats, is that a majority of young, especially young male voters went for Trump.
That is bizarre, because the political platform of Trump, the GOP, and especially Project 2025 is a frontal assault on young people. From reproductive rights to recreational drug use, from LGBTQ+ rights to employment rights, from access to universities to access to health care. Everything in that platform is meant to take from the young and give to the old, because the old have been reliable voters for the GOP.
It is not surprising that Trump suddenly polls tragically bad with GenZ after the vote. The question is, how could GenZ voters fall so easily for the mirage of lies? That’s the same people that accused Boomers of voting GOP because of lead poisoning, after all.
The youth are more susceptible to algorithm propaganda. The ones that didn’t get sucked down the right wing rabbit hole took the Palestine protest vote bait.
This. They’ve been honing their propaganda aimed at the youth for a couple decades now. It got me when I was 18 and, tbh, I don’t know if I would’ve broken out of it if I wasn’t gay. The “don’t tread on me” part of the propanda was really what sucked me in, then I saw how hard they fought against people like me having the same rights as them and realized they were full of shit. Young people today are going through the same thing, but with even more sophisticated propaganda to initially hook them.
Cambridge Analytica was 7 years ago.
They didn’t stop. Imagine how much better it is now…
That’s kinda what I was saying… lol. They’ve been really focused on indoctrinating young men for decades. They know they’re going to lose a certain amount of them, because their policies are deeply unpopular, so they’re banking on being able to get enough people while they’re young, then keep the wool pulled over their eyes.
And now they have all the big tech players on board! YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and X (of course) are all happy to algorithmically lift far-right content, and let right-wing bots comment on anything to sculpt narratives.
We are fucked. I’ve tried talking to some of these people, and they live in an alternative reality. Discussing facts is questioning their reality, and it puts them hard on the defensive.
“The pen is mightier than the sword” and they have all the pens.
TikTok may be doing to GenZ what Facebook did to their grandparents?
Because “youth” is not a block, just as “Boomers” is not a block either.
A lot of young people are against LGBT rights, oppose the liberalisation of drugs, and care little about women and reproductive rights (including women themselves!).
GamerGate involved mainly young people, for example.
I know more misogynistic young people ( 18-35 in my view) now than at any point when I was that age. It’s heart breaking