{"id":1740695,"date":"2022-11-16T08:02:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T13:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1740695"},"modified":"2022-11-16T08:02:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T13:02:59","slug":"why-did-gen-z-turn-out-to-vote-for-democrats-and-against-their-own-interests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-did-gen-z-turn-out-to-vote-for-democrats-and-against-their-own-interests\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Did Gen Z Turn Out To Vote For Democrats And Against Their Own Interests?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-did-gen-z-turn-out-to-vote-for-democrats-and-against-their-own-interests%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1740695&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>There\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/everymancommentary.com\/the-red-wave-the-wasnt-five-take-aways-from-the-midterm-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plenty of blame to go around<\/a> for the disappointing results of the last week\u2019s election: the current post-Covid rules (or lack thereof) for voting, mismanaged ballot collection and counting, Republican leadership, and American voters. Naturally, all of these factors played a role in helping a party that has failed on multiple fronts to stay securely in power.<\/p>\n<p>However, one major reason for Democrats winning was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/e2-80-9cwe-e2-80-99ve-grown-up-in-unprecedented-circumstances-from-economic-turmoil-to-the-pandemic-to-climate-change-to-school-shootings-e2-80-9d\/ar-AA140uGx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gen Z voters coming out in large numbers<\/a> to vote for them \u2014 though this was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidshor\/status\/1590685841651027968\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">not quite as big a reason<\/a> as Democrats believe. This cohort was responsible for electing cognitively impaired man-child John Fetterman and incompetent shrew Kathy Hochul as well as reelecting Covid tyrant Gretchen Whitmer. Less unsurprisingly, they\u2019re also responsible for supporting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/voters-states-legalized-marijuana-midterm-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">legalization of marijuana<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/the-states-choose-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">expanding abortion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Why did these young people feel motivated enough to go and vote against their interests and keep the country on a downward trajectory? Do they like rising crime, high inflation, mass illegal immigration, homeless encampments, high gas prices, and a shrinking economy? Did they really think Biden would pay off their student loans? Are they just brainwashed zombies who comply with the narratives of TikTok?<\/p>\n<p>Based on my extensive experience as an English teacher, I would say that yes, the average Gen Z American is largely indifferent to important issues that affect the country, even ones that affect their general quality of life. Every day, I witness their lack of reasoning skills and personal drive. This in turn causes them to be disturbingly introverted and handle most of their interactions with people through social media. Many have no real community or deep-seated beliefs and act more on feelings than principle. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, they spend most of their waking life on the internet, consuming mindless content and dreaming up fake personas for themselves. And as a result, they are largely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/the-immature-generation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">immature<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/better\/pop-culture\/americans-are-lonelier-ever-gen-z-may-be-loneliest-ncna873101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lonely<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/studyfinds.org\/gen-z-mental-health-condition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">neurotic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This much is argued by writer and former English professor Mark Bauerlein, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/the-youth-problem_4859572.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">writes<\/a> that Gen Z, \u201cwill be the most conformist cohort in American history, already favoring cancellation more than any other age group, and politics will be a primary mode of grouping.\u201d This generation is told what to think by various online influencers, and they passively comply. Because of screen addiction, they will never learn to think or act for themselves, nor will they ever really want to.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/smartphones-are-killing-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">propagandizing effect of heavy social media usage<\/a> cannot be overstated. For young people, nearly every narrative and social phenomenon now originate from the internet. This means that it\u2019s the dumb and disturbed \u201cinfluencers\u201d online, not parents or teachers, informing this next generation about politics, economics, and culture. And the algorithms of popular social media sites are designed to curate and amplify this same defective messaging a million times over. The subversive effect on people with still-developing frontal cortexes is not all that different from the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4woPg0-xyAA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ludivico technique<\/a>\u201d in \u201cA Clockwork Orange\u201d in which criminals are forcibly bombarded with images and music in order to condition them against<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one challenges the kids, so they grow up soft and slow, making them the perfect sheep to be manipulated en masse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":551,"featured_media":1740698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1740695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1740698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}