No wonder the right wing loonies were flipping out about the March for Our Lives. Motivated youth are their ultimate boogie man.
Yep, those young people are now March(ing) to the Polls.
Hahahahahahaha
One-third is still shockingly high, given that young people tend not to spend their evenings rotting in their chairs watching Faux News. We have radicalized a generation of young âChristianâ fascists. That bodes well for our dumbocracy.
Cue the intrepid NYT reporter traveling to Indiana and the South Bronx in search of the young Trump supporter. When it comes to Trump, 33% might as well be 90% as far as the MSM is concerned.
With regard to Trumpâs 33% approval rating, I bet in any large population, we would find that 33%:
Like to breathe bus fumes
Like to chew on foil
Like to take cold showers
Like light beer
Enjoy watching reruns of âHazelâ
Trump: Thats a win in my Electoral College book. Too bad only 33% of the young amerikkkans are white.
ââIf he was mentally unfit, I donât think he would have made as much money as he did,â
Money = Sane
Simple logic.
âIf he was mentally unfit, I donât think he would have made as much money as he did, but I can see why people would think that,â he said. âIâm not a fan of his incessant need for Twitter. He acts like a child.â
How many contradictions can we count here?
A child from a FOX Newsâaddled home, no doubtâŚ
Except he didnât, rather he incurred potentially crippling debt, most of it from the most dangerous people on the planet.
If he wasnât washing their rubles for them they wouldnât give him a dimeâŚ
Trump succeeded in business?
Thereâs a patent falsehood that seems to be locked in to the Trump apologists of every age.
[Quote] Thatâs 9 points lower than all adults, who were asked the same question on a separate AP-NORC survey taken this month.[/quote] Do those numbers include the ~80% of this youth poll who are adults? If so what do those numbers look like if you exclude them?
It ought to be below 20 percent but even as a majority of the coming generation displays an impressive amount of activism and intelligence, thereâs also an element among this generation that is doing one or more of the following:
-doubling down on reality TV and associating the biggest and baddest bully with actual strength
-trying to poke the Establishment in the eye and viewing that as more important than anything else
-following parental and social cues on racism and xenophobia
-responding to Trumpâs cues on free trade and job security
Unfortunately, mainstream conservatism does not enter into it; it seems to be almost dead in this country, and thatâs a dangerous place for a democracy. If conservatism splinters into reactionary incoherence, conspiracy theories and fake news abound, and everyone from Konrad Adenauer to Niall Ferguson over the years has pointed out the danger of that (it tends to lead to continental or world war)
Also, looking at these numbers, it suggests Trump is pretty resilient with white 18-34 year olds; probably a 50-50 split there, so not much different from the election when he carried them by an estimated four points.
Parental influence is strong with the Trumpladytes. In so many ways.
âIf he was mentally unfit, I donât think he would have made as much money as he did, but I can see why people would think that,â he said.
Bwahahahaha!
This is promising, and Iâm hoping that the March for Our Lives and any associated movements can lionize younger people to get out and vote and then remain engaged, but what also needs to happen is that this all needs to be hung around the Republican partyâs neck, and not just Trumpâs. Itâs only a matter of time before Trump fully implodes one way or another. When that happens, the GOP and their media empire will do everything they can to force a narrative that Trump wasnât actually one of theirs or that he was just an outlier that wonât happen again. Itâs the Republican party thatâs toxic. Trump is just another byproduct of it who is just too goddamned stupid to keep the more vile elements of it behind closed doors. Iâm hoping that younger Americans coming of age in the Trump era will see that and remember it.
This is heartening in so many ways.
Yet thereâs a terrifying nugget in there - 54% think heâs being treated unfairly by the media. Mediated experience is replacing actual experience at such an alarming rate that there is an awful lot of room for âmind changingâ by the people who have currently hijacked the government. Getting fish to understand that theyâre swimming in water is rather difficult. Manipulation of the medium isnât.
33%? I weep for the future. Then again, I donât see how it could get much worse than the present.
This would be where I repeat my theory that in any given population of a democratic country, there will always be somewhere between a quarter to a third of the people who are innately authoritarian.
The number is slippery because thereâs definitely a nurture and nature thing going. An authoritarian state with full control of media and the educational system can always make more people think and act like authoritarians. And in any democracy there are going to be subpopulations where peopleâs parents have put them into rigid, controlling environments that basically replicate totalitarian propaganda and education.
But the irreducible number seems to be in the 25-33% rangeâpeople who are just wired for authoritarian thinking. They have a collection of traits that correlate strongly with conservatismâlower than average fear and disgust thresholds, lack of empathy for out-group member. It makes them want to take orders and, more importantly, see othersâespecially Other othersâforced to do and act Rightly.
Because the things that make them authoritarian are also traits that tend to correlate with conservatism, most of these people naturally gravitate to the right. But a distressingly large fraction end up on the left.
Woke AF
You forgot ⌠think cancer warnings should be on coffee.
Memo to the sane 67% of young adults: Get the fuck out and VOTE!!!