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The idea that any millennial or younger would vote for either of those losers is hard to believe.
Some young voters just do whatever their parents tell them to do.
I hate to say I was one of these voters. I grew up in a christian house and was home-schooled. When I started voting my folks just told me to pick an R for everything. It took a couple of years to realize what a bullshit take that was.
I'm glad I got out, but there are a LOT of people that don't and they go on to perpetuate that ideology.
Some young voters are also legitimately conservative. Hand waving away people’s beliefs is one of the reasons we ended up with Trump in the first place.
The upper end of the millennial range is 44. I really hope they aren’t still listening to their boomer/X parents.
Semi-rural High school teacher here. They like his easy answers to everything. They like the strong man attitude and his harsh language. They are outspoken about hating Biden for "ruining the economy "
So they're morons.
Repeating what their idiot parents say
This is the true story. They never hear another viewpoint in their lives, ever. They just repeat what the angry people at church and their Karen/Chad parents say at every opportunity.
"These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West."
"You know... morons"
Sad thing is the economy outside of the inflation is really strong. Most Americans just don't see any benefit from a strong economy anymore.
If most Americans don't see any benefit, it isn't a strong economy. It's an economy that meets certain metrics that the ownership class tells us indicate a "strong economy", because those metrics actually indicate an economy that benefits them.
I would hope this goes without saying, but if course it doesn't, so: I fully understand that either Trump or Haley would make it worse. I also think Biden has been much better than I ever expected, and his economic gains - once we get past the inflation - will translate far more to most Americans than some past, more neoliberal economic gains did. It's a damn shame that the political climate isn't to the point yet where we can demand more substantial measures, but what we've got is surprisingly OK.
I just think it's important to remember that the concept of a "strong economy" has been heavily propagandized.
Do they even know what "the economy" is?
Doesn't matter. They think they do.
Are they also like "how would people fall for Hitler's easy answers and scapegoating? I would never be so stupid"? Or are they more like "you know, he had some good ideas"?
Well, considering how successful conservatives have been at corrupting school lesson plans, they probably have very little understanding of what Hitler and the nazis really did
There were many at the time that didn't really believe some of the crazier shit Hitler was saying. They thought he was on "their" side because they liked a lot of what he said... It wasn't until after he fully seized power that they realized how bad they ducked up.
It's SCARY how closely history is repeating itself with Trump.
There's a huge group of mentor-less teen boys that fall prey to conservative personalities.
A lot of them have mentors who are just hateful bigots.
The big worry is less about casting a ballot for Trump and more about net supporting him by not turning out or protest voting for Harambe
Stupidity is one helluva drug
Millennials can be racist shitbags too.
The sorts that would go incel or sov cit will absolutely vote this way. They have many years of watching anger porn on YouTube and are all riled up.
The same goes for women and PoC and yet some do.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A liberal political advocacy group said Monday that it had bought up two website domains to steer young voters away from the leading GOP candidates: former President Donald Trump and former U.N.
For example, their views on abortion — which during the 2022 midterms was “the top issue influencing” the youth vote, according to the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University.
The organization said its goal is to reach at least half a million people in key states (such as Michigan, North Carolina and Florida) where young voters have significant power to sway election outcomes.
“Trump and Haley aren’t doing any sort of outreach on these platforms in a way that authentically communicates their views on abortion, climate change, gun violence and other top issues.
In 2020, social media users persuaded thousands to reserve tickets to a Trump rally without planning to attend, resulting in his coming out to rows of empty seats.
When former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina entered the Republican presidential primaries in 2016, an internet troll bought CarlyFiorina.org and flooded it with 30,000 sad emoticons to represent the number of people laid off at HP during her tenure.
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Some fraction of people are a few sigma off the intelligence mean. Those on the left tail of the curve are going to be repubs. Regardless of age.
And others who might otherwise vote more naturally center or center-left will never have that chance if they cannot have the opportunity to see outside the small bubble they grew up in.
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2024
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