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?)
Anecdotally there does seem to be a rise in “fiscally left, socially right” young people. I know teens who want to nationalize all major corporations AND ALSO want to ban “wokeness in video games” whatever the fuck that means.
this is one of the worst things I’ve read but goddamn if it doesn’t line up with shit I’ve experienced just anecdotally. Hell I feel like many of our struggle sessions here are over the “socially right” part of this.
And there are absolutely conservatives out there who would be leftists if they weren’t so into the aesthetics of Wolf of Wall Street and Ancient Rome.
Future video games are to primarily revolve around sleeping, end WOKE