Submitted by ChaosRocket in AskRaddle

I’ve been reading that apparently Gen Z is really conservative and when they get to be voting age they’ll swing the US even harder to the right because they’re not nearly as leftist/liberal as Millennials are. That thought is really depressing. Do you think it’s true? I had always assumed Gen Z would be even more left than the Millennials since most generations are usually farther to the left than their parents.

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retiredshared5 wrote

please never say iGen again first of all

I think its an overall polarized generation; lots of racists, but also a lot of anarchists (especially the PoC).

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ziq wrote (edited )

I think reddit / youtube / 4chan culture is poisoning a lot of young minds.

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UnbanTwin wrote

Can confirm. As a teenager (I'm old enough to be here, don't worry) I've lost a fair amount of friends due to them getting eaten by 4chan.

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robottroymacclure wrote

gen z will be a much smaller population than the baby boomers and is already much more ethnically diverse and accepting of different lifestyle choices, which is awesome. it would be interesting if they can still be efficiently brainwashed into voting against their own interests as previous generation have been. the cynic in me believes they will be tho. i agree that people in their twenties and younger now do not engage in the same kind of risk taking behaviors we did (im am 36).

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RuthlessCriticism wrote

As a friend of mine said, they may be conservative now, but wait until they enter the workforce.

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succtales_backup wrote

O see what you mean. I can't tell you how many muskrats go to the same school as me.

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parias wrote

I think we'll see much more political polarisation on both the left and right, as in, the formation of actual, popular communist/socialist and fascist parties when Gen Z comes of age. Social media encourages echo chambers to form which encourages polarisation of views.

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