Gen Z regrets Trump support and is midterm motivated

The article itself contradicts its headline. It says 31% of Gen Z regret voting for Trump, but that means 69% don't regret it - and it gets worse for the other generations.

i like "hard agree"

It may not have been vilified like it is now, but it was never cool.

Nah, hatefully screaming generalizations onto the Internet to an audience that is almost certainly on your side ideologically is a better option.

Also, you can’t afford time off work to do anything actionable. And even if you could afford it by using accrued time off, the lack of worker protections means you’ll be unemployed as soon as you start doing anything too controversial.

It’s nice to say “just get into the streets” but the vast majority of Americans are one missed paycheck away from homelessness and food scarcity. The average American is basically living hand-to-mouth, (many are even putting groceries on credit) just to survive. Regime change sounds nice, but a revolt would take months or even years, and your kids will go hungry in a few days. The only Americans who really have the time and means to effect meaningful change are retired or rich enough to not need a job. And those two demographics overwhelmingly support the current regime, because they’re old and rich.

It can be difficult for Europeans to properly grasp just how dire the situation in America is. The average American would need to travel for at least three days just to reach the capitol. That’s a solid 3 days of driving, only stopping to eat and sleep. All while not being able to take time off of work. Saying “just go protest” is like telling someone in Madrid, Spain to travel to Warsaw, Poland just to protest against their “local” leadership.

“Oh but you can protest at the state level” I already hear some people typing. Great, my state capitol is 450 miles away. That’s not even an exaggeration, it takes a solid 8 hours of driving to reach my “local” capitol building. It’s not something the average person can just do on a whim, nor can they do it regularly. It’s not like the average person can just pop over to the capitol for a protest, then be back home in time for dinner.

Maybe go make some noise at the city level. But that’s not going to do anything at the national level (or even at the state level) because they’re far away and easy for the lawmakers to ignore.

Lastly, good luck revolting against the federal government. I’m sure the average gun-nut’s AR-15 will be extremely effective against drone strikes. Oh wait…

The rest of the world stating we should do something are still leveraging their economies against the US Dollar and investing capital in our economy. If you want to help stop all of this, just cut us off completely. Stop trading with us, too. This regime can be brought to its knees by destroying the US economy and the rest of the world will no longer have to deal with the consequences of this bullshit.

Don't forget the drones

Us peaceful types are mostly unarmed.

Which is exactly why you're unable to act when the time requires it of you.

There's a distinct difference between being peaceful and being harmless. You are not peaceful. You're harmless.

Perhaps its time you reconsidered your stance on possessing the capability to defend yourself against your oppressors.

You’re cute in assuming there will be midterm elections in the U.S.

The Nazis in charge are doing everything to skew those results and if history is any lesson for the future, impeaching the orange rapist will be almost as effective as watching paint dry based on his last impeachment.

But I mean, good luck, enjoy your tainted greens, your infected beef and giving all your 401k’s to six oligarchs and a rapist while they flock you at every turn.

Enjoy.

I'm still mad the DNC didn't hold a primary election when they all got together in Chicago (I think that's where they were I could be wrong) after Biden dropped out. Would have been way better optics.

Also still think Biden could have just stayed in and won because sexism and propaganda was way more effective against Harris than another old white guy. Harris not that inspiring for voter turn out either in my opinion.

This is why I blame the DNC equally for where we’re at now. Biden should’ve bowed out after two years, we should’ve gotten a primary for 2024. They completely screwed over the younger base, who were still pissed about what they did to Bernie in 2016. Biden won by narrow margin in 2020.

Yeah, Harris was really that bad

No, it's never the fault of billionaires in any media comparison. If it serves the corporate interests, the media are happy to blame older people.

I am a late 90s Gen Z and all those chuds fell for the dark joke memes to far right Neo Nazi pipeline. I was into the stupid memes in high school but grew up and out of that by my senior year (2017). I quickly realized how dumb it was to elect meme president.

Everybody did shit they're not proud of as a kid. I'm glad you grew as a person, many did not .

I remember when asked to address the concerns of young men who felt like they were being ignored and left behind, the Democratic response was something along the lines “vote on behalf of the women in your life”.

I don't know if that sort of thing was the Democratic official response, but I've seen my share of completely unhelpful bullshit from online people that at least identify as leftist.

Telling men, especially white men that they should take a back seat and let others talk and doing anything else is "mansplaining", that they need to "do the work", and "check their privilege" and so on. Creating a hierarchy in the Oppression Olympics game, etc. And telling people that their pain is invalid. Taking joy in young men who are miserable in the dating game.

If someone is hurting, responding with a lecture about how awful they are because of their race and gender is supposed to do what? Is all that lecturing and scolding supposed to be winning hearts and minds and building a broader coalition? FFS.

We need a lot more happy warriors like Mamdani, AOC and Bernie. Okay, Bernie can be a bit gruff at times, but he's not lecturing people on intersectionality and other extremely academic/online things. Those guys talk about how we are in this shit together as humans and you come away galvanized and motivated. They don't give people homework assignments and dress them down in a finger-wagging struggle session.