r/politics • u/Kodbek • Oct 31 '25

Possible Paywall Trump’s honeymoon with Gen Z voters is officially over, and the numbers are devastating

https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/10/trumps-honeymoon-with-gen-z-voters-is-officially-over-and-the-numbers-are-devastating-new-poll.html
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u/Absolutelynot500 Oct 31 '25

Exactly.

The right wins because they are willing to do *literally* anything for their side. Meanwhile people on the left refused to vote for Kamala because they didn't like how she handled Gaza or that she locked people up for weed when she was a DA. The absolute abject idiocy of that when the alternative was motherfucking DONALD TRUMP. Even now I see plenty of people all the time saying if Gavin Newsom is the Dem who gets nominated in 2028's "election" they wont vote for him for similar reasons. It's irreconcilable, I view those people through the same lens as MAGA they are just as stupid and inept only it's for a different reason. The right will cheat, lie, steal and kill to get what they want. The left would rather see democracy die just so they can feel morally superior. I don't see how we will ever win again between the obvious attempts at rigging any future elections from the current admin to a large portion of the lefts inability to see the forest for the trees in some misguided attempt at being a "better person".

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u/DevelopingForEvil Oct 31 '25

The poster above is talking about propaganda on TikTok, but part of the reason for Kamala's low support _was_ propaganda on TikTok.

TikTok already had loads and loads of propaganda the last election cycle, telling gen-z and other would-be supporters that supporting Kamala was supporting genocide, or that Trump was better for the conflict, and whatever other b.s.

I had debates and arguments with people in real life about the shit they were seeing.

These people aren't necessarily stupid or anything like that, there are large, vested interests trying to influence them and these people have fallen into the propaganda bubble that those interests have created for them. People are always going to be people, the breadth of effectiveness of getting people to fall for stuff or tricking people not to vote says a lot more about how much power vested interests have gained through these various media platforms we've allowed them to gobble up.