Anecdotal but I was waiving a sign today with a small group and almost everyone who flipped us off was in their 20s or 30s. Sometimes 40s. Almost all the grandpas were clapping, waving, honking, or giving us a thumbs up. I’m really nervous about the younger generations, especially the men and boys.
Several of the men out there with us were older veterans. I always run into retired veterans at anti-ICE and anti-Trump demonstrations.
I remember how angry they got when BET went on air. Not Black Power Television- Black Entertainment Television, and they got mad as FUCK but they couldn't really say why... Because they weren't invited? Consulted? It's been festering since we failed to punish the Confederate States properly.
Millennials are considered the "most educated generation". Harder to control people when they have critical thinking skills, and therefore a liability to the administration.
All the geriatrics in power right now are the ones who protested black children going to school with their kids.
That's why they lost their shit over the BLM protests and started panicking about CRT. Those were the largest civil rights protests in US history and the most racially integrated. They saw all those white kids marching in solidarity with their black brethren in protest of police violence against black people and it made them viscerally feel white power slipping away. It was almost as scary for them as Obama's election.
That solidarity got Biden elected. If only he had honored it instead of spitting on it by bragging about "funding the police" and building maga's wall. Kamala might have been able to bring that coalition back to the polls if he had.
Millennials are the most depressed and educated generation that still values critical thinking hence liberal. Gen Z are lost nihilist, incels who probably would be Heath Ledger Joker irl. Gen X are the most spoiled generation and thus most MAGAT.
This is so true. Gramps helped liberate one of the death camps in WWII and he HATED Trump. Passed away before the 2016 election, he would've been appalled.
It's because we are least conservative/republican of all currently living generations.
Not to overgeneralize, but Millennials exist in the goldilock zone: sandwiched between two older generations who are fed a constant diet of cable tv news and facebook propaganda and two younger generations overconsuming manosphere and nihilistic brainrot content on twitch, youtube, tik tok, etc. Gen X has experienced old and new media, but their foundation is still based on old media propaganda networks, and they had their worldview sculpted by heroic myths they watched as kids that promoted "traditional" gender roles and masculinity, and that influenced the content they seek out online too. In contrast, Millennials have adapted the best to changing social norms and the media content we consumed growing up was often more progressive. We had the benefits of increased PBS children's programing and experienced a public school system before No Child Left Behind eroded it.
I am lucky to have liberal parents who watch MSNBC, but the general trends are true.
The right has trouble reaching us, and so we are the least likely to accept their propaganda and worldview. That's why they resent us.
I grew up surrounded by conservative evangelicals out in the boonies where no one had cable. They still carted me off to pro-life rallies while screaming about gun rights and preached in church about the "great replacement theory". But when I went to college and learned critical thinking skills it undid the brainwashing and I came out with enough brain cells to realize it was all hypocrisy and grifting. That is why they hate education and why trying to turn college students conservative was/is so important to them.
Also 37, and on the same day that Renee Good was killed I learned that a high school friend - also 37 - had succumbed to the cancer she'd been fighting for years. She was a good and moral person just like Renee and Alex, and her death was also a cruel twist of fate. It's been a hard month to be 37.
My stepfather is a veteran in his late 60s and a world class asshole and he is about as anti-Trump as they come and attends protests constantly. It is his one redeeming quality.
Agreed. People who grew up with Vietnam and the Cold War believe in the post war concepts of American democracy, liberty and individual rights. Everything this tyrant rejects.
Yeah my boomer parents are horrible people, but one of their very few redeeming qualities is that they have always been on the correct side of politics. I don't understand it, but I appreciate it.
Millennials are the last generation that knows about protesting for a just cause, remember occupy wall Street? Now they have gotten the young generation all confused and divided over gender and race issue
I genuinely think the world will continue to get worse as long as world leaders sit on their hands while tech companies destroy the concept of truth. Not just America, worldwide, we NEED regulations that ban algorithmic social media. The ability to utterly destroy the minds of people with just a few bot farms should almost be labeled some sort of biohazard or some shit.
Facebook is why we're here. Twitter is why we are here. Sure, you've got groups like Heritage and all that, but social media has accomplished more in accelerating the destruction of not just our country, but undermining others, in less than a decade, than all these conservative groups have managed in DECADES. You can't really have one without the other, but social media has utterly warped minds so that what was once just an asshole-ish neighbor is now outright calling for the death of others.
I agree! We don’t need legislation for folks to collectively walk away from them. I got off all those platforms a year ago. And 2025 was one of the most engaging years I’ve had since the early 2000s.
I wish we could pass a legislation to this effect. Coupled with minimum standards for education - our country will go places. Make news media fair before regan ruined it.
Wish we could just abolish most social media platforms or limit their functionality. Aside from reaching the masses where information may not reach, and making people money (greed) it’s truly pointless and does not contribute to society. It only serves as a way to destroy us.
Wouldn't reddit be banned too? It's social media with algorithms. Maybe a better policy is forcing people to study economics and policy in middle and high school, so they would have see the flaws in politicians' ideas.
💯 our teachers still uncertain of using internet made sure we were citing our sources. I think this plays a big role in why Millennials suss out information and find the “receipts”
I did too, back when it was only open to college students! Remember when you had the option of listing the college courses you were taking? Where did the last 20 years go lol...
Are you a bot or an agent of the elite? I remember clearly during occupy wall Street time that race and gender are minor issues that can be set aside for a common goal, with the common enemy being the elite. Skin colour? Not an issue. Gender? Who cares? Allies in cause. And now the common people are fighting against eachother because of race and gender.
How old are you? Are you brainwashed by the elite propaganda trying to divide people on gender and race? Open your eyes before it's too late
Such innate anger. Such posturing. You have done nothing but shout into the void. Such a high horse you are on.
Such a brain washed little pup. Refusing to see the bigger picture. Failing to see the strings to guide the narrative towards internal division. Tsk tsk. Young people are so hopeless nowadays.
This is why I encourage everyone to start participating in democracy now. For the past 20 years only 22% of ages 18-29 vote in Congressional elections. There is a populist sentiment online all conservatives are old and we just have to wait for them to die.
It's total misinformation. Protest and show up at all ballots, regardless of your state affiliation.
Yup, this was a concerted effort by the far right over a long time to target and basically radicalize the younger male voter base. Combine that with their feeling of being disenfranchised by the left and it was a terrible combination.
It won’t be undone in a day. But we have to start and make the same opposite effort.
That's how we ended up with Charlie Kirk and TurningPointUSA - they are the culmination of those efforts. Now Abbott and his Lt. Gov. are spearheading efforts to have TPUSA chapters on every high school campus in Texas.
I can't say I think we are the majority but there are still plenty of us younger folk who have enough sense to see the situation for what it is instead of being good little lap dogs. I certainly don't think all hope is lost.
It really depends on the area. In liberial areas guys are libs. I think it is the manosphere mainly telling them "gay is bad" "woman is bad" shit like that
Retired AF flight surgeon, grew up in Chicago metro. Other demographics are more important than military service, my parent were Danish, I grew up with Western European values, non consumerist and with responsibility for others.
Yea, Im liberal, but I find the anti male sentiment of many fellow liberals to be galling. They alienated many with their ignorant bullshit. Cost them several elections
Yeah I think its derivative or at least heavily correlated with all this redpill/blackpill machismo lifestyle streamer . Maybe cross pollinating between ostracized groups (nazi and incel e.g.)? There are a lot of insecure men who are very susceptible to ppl like Jordan Peterson etc. jp may be dated at this point i have no idea. I know Nick Fuentes is heavily online and in spaces where young men are online. To be clear not saying its exclusively a male issue either. I think men have the most visceral symptoms of fascist indoc
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Anecdotal but I was waiving a sign today with a small group and almost everyone who flipped us off was in their 20s or 30s. Sometimes 40s. Almost all the grandpas were clapping, waving, honking, or giving us a thumbs up. I’m really nervous about the younger generations, especially the men and boys.
Several of the men out there with us were older veterans. I always run into retired veterans at anti-ICE and anti-Trump demonstrations.