Four-times-indicted former president Donald Trump has been successfully selling white Christian nostalgia, racism and xenophobia to his base. However, the Public Religion Research Institute’s massive poll of 6,616 participants suggests that what works with his base might pose an insurmountable problem with Gen Z teens and Gen Z adults (who are younger than 25).
Demographically, this cohort of voters bears little resemblance to Trump’s older, whiter, more religious followers. “In addition to being the most racially and ethnically diverse generation in our nation’s history, Gen Z adults also identify as LGBTQ at much higher rates than older Americans,” the PRRI poll found. “Like millennials, Gen Zers are also less likely than older generations to affiliate with an established religion.”
Those characteristics suggest Gen Z will favor a progressive message that incorporates diversity and opposes government imposition of religious views. Indeed, “Gen Z adults (21%) are less likely than all generational groups except millennials (21%) to identify as Republican.” Though 36 percent of Gen Z adults identify as Democrats, their teenage counterparts are more likely to be independents (51 percent) than older generations.
Weakness as strength, yet again.
Our children of all colors and creeds will hold hands and walk gently into the future, along with this planet and the majesty of all her beings.
Kindness and collaboration are the natural law, time-tested and evinced by nature for far longer than humans have existed.
Goodnight, stranger.
nature is not exclusively kind or collaborative, nature is logical, and the vast majority of creeds in question violate this law and will see the consequences for doing so, either in their personal life dissatisfaction, or by means of meeting problems they cant pass by means of flawed world understanding :)
A little dissatisfaction is all it takes to scare you into rigid, terrified conformity? How pitiful 😂
Notice how nature adapts and thrives on various domains, dynamically and powerfully. The opposite of the very conformity you claim is the key to success 🤦
conformity is not the key to success, contentment with the fact that nature is rigid is the key to success, you can do anything within the bounds of reason lest it result in personal misfortune
I don’t think anyone agrees that nature is rigid, it is in fact fully dynamic, as a system. The rules are simple, but the results are not. I know that’s what you meant, if only your thinking was less occluded by obedience.
Woohoo for freedom!