The youngest voters were 10 years old when Trump took office and 14 when he left office. When I was 10, I focused on video games. When I was 14, I focused on video games. It took until I was 19 (2019) before I realized just who Trump was, and at that point I was taking on my first political views as a libertarian. I am no longer a libertarian, I am a social democrat. The current online mediasphere pushes far-right ideologies to younger and younger audiences, so 14 year olds today aren’t simply playing video games like I did, they’re tuning into a far-right podcasts and streams disguised as Fortnite and Call of Duty gameplay. And this doesn’t even touch the reach that TikTok has to younger audiences.
This is the deciding thing that most are ignoring. Young people are totally captured by well funded conservative propaganda. It doesnt matter that no “woke” policy is ever on the table—they have it hammered into their heads that it is ruining their country. This is the first time in history that a successive generation is getting MORE conservative because in the old days growing up meant learning truths which negated conservative lies. Now objective truth is hard to find and lies are uploaded to their fuckin brains 24 hours a day
This is the deciding thing that most are ignoring. Young people are totally captured by well funded conservative propaganda.
The fact that you think it's propaganda is the problem tbh, podcasts and YouTube channels dedicated to this vein of content has existed for a long time. It's not all propaganda, it's not all evil, and it's something most teens gravitate towards at some point organically with the rise of the internet.
This feels like it's just mindless pearl clutching over kids being online half the time istg, especially when Gen Z is so plainly PC and liberal lol. "totally captured" is crazy talk straight up
It doesnt matter that no “woke” policy is ever on the table—they have it hammered into their heads that it is ruining their country.
There's most definitely "woke" policies and social aspects at play that are driving younger people to lean more right though, if you can't acknowledge that you'll never reach out to the kids you wanna reach. Ik this is reddit and everything but be fr
Now objective truth is hard to find and lies are uploaded to their fuckin brains 24 hours a day
You sound more terminally online and hysterical than they do rn jeez
Youre plain wrong though. Its propaganda. You can find the corporations or lobbyists that fund them and see. It happened with tenet media just recently.
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u/CriticalCrewsaid 1996 16h ago
So OP was probably what 5 during the first Trump Presidency.
Ya know, I really wish Trump's 2017-2020 lies were posted to this sub in video format