Ever since the election, there seems to be a torrent of polling that shows Americans in their late teens and early twenties are fairly reactionary (young men overwhelmingly so). I’m old so I don’t know anyone IRL in that age bracket. But something about what the media has been claiming for months now doesn’t seem to sound right. Idk maybe it’s 100% true but it’s something I have a hard time taking the media’s word for. I know we have quite a few users here in that age bracket. What are your real-life experiences (i.e. not online) with this? Do you think this age demographic is actually trending reactionary?

(I do remember digging into the details of one poll, and while it seemed there was more affiliation with Republicans than previous, it also seemed like there were an also very large segment that were openly showing to be further left than the democrats? So maybe more reactionary sentiment but also more genuinely leftish sentiment?)

  • OprahsedCreature@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Millennial exceptionalism absolutely smells like yet another bullshit concept made up by the corporate media (read CIA) sphere to sow division, much in the same vein of boomer reactionism. Sure, most boomers aren’t quite as progressive because they lack political education and for most of their lives access to quality information, but mostly what we see of boomers is the ones who survived and became prominent in the capitalist system.