Ok, I’m sure anyone that uses reddit has seen the “why is gen-z so conservative?” Posts. Frankly, I think that’s not accurate. I’m gen Z, literally no one I know in my age bracket is remotely “conservative”. Most of them are either run of the mill blue voters, or leftist and recognized that voting for Kamala or Trump wouldn’t fix anything and if the Democrats want votes they need to move left, not right. Liberals just can’t fathom that.
Who was at college campuses protesting the genocide in Gaza? Gen Z. Who said they wouldn’t vote for anyone who supported Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians? Gen Z. Liberals and Democrat establishment did not listen and instead arrested and suppressed us.
Sure there are some Andrew Tate bros sure. But those guys were always going to vote fascist, they come from Christian fundamentalist households. They are born into the ideology.
Liberals really just cannot fathom that the left had no candidate. Hell, I know this is very dem-soc of me, but a Bernie-like candidate would have likely done so much better because Bernie said things other than “Trump bad”. He appealed to class struggles. We even heard from some people in 2016 that when Bernie left, they either didn’t vote or went to Trump because he made a bunch of promises to the "little people ".
I think it’s not so different from millennials. A 22 year old white man from Missouri is probably going to be exactly the same as all of his ancestors. A 22 year old in Oregon, same. I think this whole “we are getting more conservative!” Thing is more of a cope than an actual statistic. I mean, how could you even accurately measure that statistic? I’m not going to fill out a form online describing my political beliefs lol. That sounds sketch af.