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Everyone Wants to Know What Gen Z Republicans Think. We Asked 20 of Them.

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Moderator: Where do you get your political news from?

Andrew: Spotify podcasts like Tucker Carlson, or Rumble with Nick Fuentes.

Brice: I get a lot of my political news from YouTubers.

Alex: Social media and podcasts. Joe Rogan, stuff like that, just kind of depends on the day.

Addie: Honestly, my dad kind of fills me in on everything. Or TikTok.

Madison: Social media, like Instagram or Twitter . . . Honestly, just whatever I see really, I can’t think of any specifics.


Moderator: Does anyone think women should not be allowed to vote?

Only Andrew raises his hand.

Andrew: I just feel like women are very emotional, and that politics is a man’s discipline. I seriously believe it. My mother actually believes this, too. And I know some other women who believe that. I just feel like I’ve never really seen a woman who truly understands politics.

Sophie: Yeah, that might be your issue with finding a good-quality girl. Have you ever thought about the fact that a woman’s emotions are a beautiful thing, and that they might complement a man? And that, yes, maybe we make different decisions because of emotions, but if it were just men there would be no reasoning? I think it’s a beautiful thing to have both sides.

Moderator: What do you think of Adolf Hitler?

Ashley: I think he was a great leader, to be honest. I think what he was going for was terrible, but I think he showed very strong leadership values.

Andrew: I’m in favor of a strong executive. I think we should have a stronger executive branch. I don’t think we should be killing people or doing mass genocide, obviously, but I do think we should have a strong executive. I feel like one of the biggest problems Trump is running into right now is all these little courts, they want to throw up little blockages against everything he’s trying to do, whether it be his tariffs or deporting people. So I’m very pro-strong executive, strong leader, strong man. I support national sovereignty, and Hitler was a nationalist. He was like, we have to take Germany back for Germans. And I feel like we should do that in America. We should take America back for our native population. So, I’m not an expert on Hitler by any means, but as far as nationalism is concerned, I’m all that.

Brice: I myself am actually Jewish, ancestrally. I’m Christian by faith, but Jewish by blood. I’ve actually read Mein Kampf. The end conclusions that he came to: absolutely abominable. But I strangely understood where he was coming from as far as wanting to improve the national state of Germany.

Lauren: He made all of those people suffer, and I want to do ungodly things to people who do things like that.

Moderator: What do you think of Jewish people?

Atticus: They’ve got Hollywood on lock.

George: Don’t they own, like, a ton of the media, and, like, just kind of everything?

Brice: No different than black people, Asian people, or any other people here today. I don’t really know why there’s a single issue about Jewish people.

Andrew: I would say a force for evil. I don’t see why we support Israel. I think Israel’s a very evil state. The genocide in Gaza, killing all these poor people. And the only reason we really support them is because they are the biggest donors. We have AIPAC, and these are all Jewish-run organizations.

Moderator: Let me clarify that. Andrew, you think the Jewish people are a force for evil?

Andrew: Yes, sir. It doesn’t bother me if it’s true. Those slurs, if you’re racist or whatever, that just rolls off my back… This is my country, my people have been here since the American Revolution, so I say what I want to.


[City Journal is published by a conservative think tank.]
 

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First off... Brice, Addie, and Madison are some of the most Gen-Z names lol. If SNL were writing a sketch about a Gen Z poll, those would be the names they used lol.

Alright, that bit of levity aside....

It's not their fault.

Basically, a hyper-polarized environment has been created that all but guarantees that "slight-leaners" gravitate toward extremes.

I would pose the question:

For a young person who's maybe just a touch right or a touch left of center...
A) where would they go to get their information?
B) which moderated viewpoints could they hold that wouldn't get them ostracized from the social circles that they lean a little more towards?

For example:
Say you have a 20-something who's a little right of center, certainly isn't going to get on the MSNBC bandwagon, holds some traditional values on a few things. Their choices are their college professor or Tucker Carlson. Which one's going to resonate more with them?

Same goes for a 20-something who's a little left of center. They're obviously not going to be tuning into Fox News anytime soon. Which sources are going to resonate more with them?


And the "group belonging" aspect is something that's important to people in that age group. If moderated/nuanced viewpoints get them uninvited from social gatherings and potentially cost them friendships and relationships, they're going to drift toward the "thought bubbles" and information silos that were a little bit closer to their organic viewpoint.

And to be clear, it's not just impacting Gen-Z, plenty of folks from older generational groups have been drifting toward the "all-or-nothing" positions in the past decade.
 
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Moderator: Where do you get your political news from?

Andrew: Spotify podcasts like Tucker Carlson, or Rumble with Nick Fuentes.

Brice: I get a lot of my political news from YouTubers.

Alex: Social media and podcasts. Joe Rogan, stuff like that, just kind of depends on the day.

Addie: Honestly, my dad kind of fills me in on everything. Or TikTok.

Madison: Social media, like Instagram or Twitter . . . Honestly, just whatever I see really, I can’t think of any specifics.


Moderator: Does anyone think women should not be allowed to vote?

Only Andrew raises his hand.

Andrew: I just feel like women are very emotional, and that politics is a man’s discipline. I seriously believe it. My mother actually believes this, too. And I know some other women who believe that. I just feel like I’ve never really seen a woman who truly understands politics.

Sophie: Yeah, that might be your issue with finding a good-quality girl. Have you ever thought about the fact that a woman’s emotions are a beautiful thing, and that they might complement a man? And that, yes, maybe we make different decisions because of emotions, but if it were just men there would be no reasoning? I think it’s a beautiful thing to have both sides.

Moderator: What do you think of Adolf Hitler?

Ashley: I think he was a great leader, to be honest. I think what he was going for was terrible, but I think he showed very strong leadership values.

Andrew: I’m in favor of a strong executive. I think we should have a stronger executive branch. I don’t think we should be killing people or doing mass genocide, obviously, but I do think we should have a strong executive. I feel like one of the biggest problems Trump is running into right now is all these little courts, they want to throw up little blockages against everything he’s trying to do, whether it be his tariffs or deporting people. So I’m very pro-strong executive, strong leader, strong man. I support national sovereignty, and Hitler was a nationalist. He was like, we have to take Germany back for Germans. And I feel like we should do that in America. We should take America back for our native population. So, I’m not an expert on Hitler by any means, but as far as nationalism is concerned, I’m all that.

Brice: I myself am actually Jewish, ancestrally. I’m Christian by faith, but Jewish by blood. I’ve actually read Mein Kampf. The end conclusions that he came to: absolutely abominable. But I strangely understood where he was coming from as far as wanting to improve the national state of Germany.

Lauren: He made all of those people suffer, and I want to do ungodly things to people who do things like that.

Moderator: What do you think of Jewish people?

Atticus: They’ve got Hollywood on lock.

George: Don’t they own, like, a ton of the media, and, like, just kind of everything?

Brice: No different than black people, Asian people, or any other people here today. I don’t really know why there’s a single issue about Jewish people.

Andrew: I would say a force for evil. I don’t see why we support Israel. I think Israel’s a very evil state. The genocide in Gaza, killing all these poor people. And the only reason we really support them is because they are the biggest donors. We have AIPAC, and these are all Jewish-run organizations.

Moderator: Let me clarify that. Andrew, you think the Jewish people are a force for evil?

Andrew: Yes, sir. It doesn’t bother me if it’s true. Those slurs, if you’re racist or whatever, that just rolls off my back… This is my country, my people have been here since the American Revolution, so I say what I want to.


[City Journal is published by a conservative think tank.]
I can’t say I’m surprised. I’m Gen X and when I can work up the energy to care it reminds me that being middle-aged does have it’s advantages.

Luckily all the zoomers I know (at work mostly) are mostly sound people, mostly.
 
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I can’t say I’m surprised. I’m Gen X and when I can work up the energy to care it reminds me that being middle-aged does have it’s advantages.

Luckily all the zoomers I know (at work mostly) are mostly sound people, mostly.

Gen Z'ers were in a bit of a rough spot.

It's human nature for people to want to attach some sort of blame when things aren't going well.

Combine that with the fact that Gen-Z was arguably the most coddled, instilled with the mentality that "if things are going well for you, it's someone else fault" (different flavors of that same mindset existed on the right and the left), and least mentally prepped to deal with adversity, and they've been dealt arguably the worst housing market to boot on top of that.

It's not surprising we're seeing this sort of thing.

Our Generation (Gen X) and the older half of Millennials were the last of, what I've heard referred to as, the "free range generation".


The comedian Patton Oswalt did a great bit about why Gen X ended being so "balanced"

I can't link it directly due to language, but it was to the effect of:
"Kids rebel against their parents, Gen X is the product of kids who were raised by either goofy hippies, or McCarthyites, and rebelled against their parents by becoming square and normal. The problem...when those normal people had kids, those kids rebelled by becoming nutjobs"
 
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Moderator: Where do you get your political news from?

Andrew: Spotify podcasts like Tucker Carlson, or Rumble with Nick Fuentes.

Brice: I get a lot of my political news from YouTubers.

Alex: Social media and podcasts. Joe Rogan, stuff like that, just kind of depends on the day.

Addie: Honestly, my dad kind of fills me in on everything. Or TikTok.

Madison: Social media, like Instagram or Twitter . . . Honestly, just whatever I see really, I can’t think of any specifics.


One of the common threads here is getting their news from social media including you tube, instagram, facebook, etc. Those from the right will migrate to the influencers from the right and those from the left will migrate to the influencers from the left. Nothing new here.




I tried to post a chart and a quote from the site above but CF keeps flagging an error.
 
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One of the common threads here is getting their news from social media including you tube, instagram, facebook, etc. Those from the right will migrate to the influencers from the right and those from the left will migrate to the influencers from the left. Nothing new here.
Ah, getting news from non-news sources should surely lead to an informed populace!
 
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Opinion is easier and more fun than news and history. Of course people prefer it. And young people have it better than any previous generation, with algorithmic assistance curating the most entertaining and indignant opinions for them.
 
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Ah, getting news from non-news sources should surely lead to an informed populace!
Never said it did but am not surprised that you would misunderstand what I wrote. Even the “mainstream” news sources are biased and mainly OPED’s these days. But in my opinion, those that get their news primarily from the opinions of others in social media outlets are bound to be quite misinformed and assume opinions that are not theirs.
 
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A few points...
1. Scary results, but 20 isn't a large enough sample size to be statistically relevant.
2. Oh my sweet summer children.
3. Andrew is a real piece of work ain't he?
4. The line between news and entertainment / commentary seems to be non-existent for these kids. They don't seem to be able to differentiate between facts and truth vs some charismatic person telling them what they should believe, even if it is made up.
 
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You missed my sarcasm?
I obviously did. Did not read the sarcasm when I first read it but did after you pointed it out.
 
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One of the common threads here is getting their news from social media including you tube, instagram, facebook, etc. Those from the right will migrate to the influencers from the right and those from the left will migrate to the influencers from the left. Nothing new here.

I think we need to be careful about scapegoating social media.

It's not as if some in the older generations aren't being propagandized in the exact same way by "mainstream outlets"


I'd even go as far as suggesting that the thing that pushed people into the welcoming arms of "online influencers" was the 25 year track record of obvious bias and spin coming from the "TV influencers"

There's trade-offs between the two platforms and both have different kinds of challenges.

For the online influencers, the drawback would be the saturation and ease of access.
A person can effortlessly binge-listen to a podcaster of their choice for 4 hours on end, for the TV influencers, a person needs to be in front of a TV to reach the same level of saturation.

On the other end:
TV influencers are more beholden to certain interests and corporate sponsorships in ways that people obviously see as propagandizing and untrustworthy.
 
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To continue my thought, since it was getting errors with a longer message

Juxtapose Joe Rogan against Steven Colbert.
One guy is having anti-vaxxers on his program to speak freely, the other is having vaccine commercial breaks "brought to you by pfizer", skits involving dancing vaccine needles, and becoming visibly uncomfortable and trying to change the subject when Jon Stewart started barely encroaching on talk that could be seen as "going against the official narrative of the day"

So we end up with "no holds barred" "open book" king of honesty that's factually wrong on some stuff, vs. as "mainstream" that may have some facts on their side, but oozes untrustworthiness.
 
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Side note:

Is there some sort of new "content filtering" stuff that's being tested that's causing these quirks?

I tried posting my message no fewer than 50 times... error. I changed the wording just a tad to use synonyms replacements for a few words, and it went through. Tried the original wording on an edit again just out of curiosity, back to the errors again.
 
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Side note:

Is there some sort of new "content filtering" stuff that's being tested that's causing these quirks?

I tried posting my message no fewer than 50 times... error. I changed the wording just a tad to use synonyms replacements for a few words, and it went through. Tried the original wording on an edit again just out of curiosity, back to the errors again.
Maybe we have too many bots running in the background. Previously, I could read content, but now I have to sign in to access it.
 
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It's stupid, people getting news from people like tucker Carlsson, nick Fuentes or 'tik tok"...

...Return the voting age back to 21. These people should be disqualified.
 
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I mean, whose bad idea was it to reduce the voting age to 18 anyways? And for what, so uninformed ignorant people can throw actual thought-out votes in the trash? They don't deserve the right.
 
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It's stupid, people getting news from people like tucker Carlsson, nick Fuentes or 'tik tok"...

...Return the voting age back to 21. These people should be disqualified.
Ok that’s the first and the twenty sixth out, any others on the hit list?
 
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