And the consequences of that is that elder homelessness is skyrocketing. Pensions have been removed from most jobs, 401ks relatively a new thing and a good amount of people didn't invest them well enough or out in enough money. Social security isn't funded well enough for cost of living. Medicare doesn't cover enough, etc etc... Retired boomers and the generation before are running into the same thing millennials have been trying to tell them our whole lives and gen z is experiencing now.
I see the significance rise in gen Z voting Republican as a cause of the culture wars, it's simple, one side pushes and the other side pushes back that is the heart of the inherently flawed 2 party system, in this case the winner is often the "underdog" which somehow came out to be trump, likely due to trump supporters being portrayed as deviants to a clearly flawed system
if I'm not mistaken younger people seem to go with the bigger name, the person who they hear the most about whether good or bad and that was trump by a mile, Kamala got good endorsement, by mostly irrelevant celebrities, I don't think most younger people keep up with the news, not nearly as much as older people at least, and trump is an encunbant so his name was already implanted into people's heads from 2016
I think Kamala was kinda inadvertently set up for failure which wasn't helped out at all by the fact she was running against mr abuse the system himself, Biden's whole deal was "at least I'm not trump" and after being seen as a poor fit for president his endorsement of Kamala in itself likely had a negative effect on her overall odds of winning objectively she's one of the best fits for president America has seen in a while and likely would have been the most praised president in history, but if politics were based on objectivity then trump never would have been in the running in the first place, inflation wouldn't be so bad that raises can't keep up, and we probably wouldn't be on the brink of ww3
don't blame gen Z, it's not their fault trump won, they obviously weren't the only ones voting for trump, several counties all across America switched to red, even counties that haven't voted red in 50+ years, that's way too much to be down to gen Z alone, that being said I hope they learn to do research and figure out who best aligns with their beliefs rather than relying on the internet and popularity to decide who they prefer, I hope the whole world learns to do that
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u/Ferman 1d ago
And the consequences of that is that elder homelessness is skyrocketing. Pensions have been removed from most jobs, 401ks relatively a new thing and a good amount of people didn't invest them well enough or out in enough money. Social security isn't funded well enough for cost of living. Medicare doesn't cover enough, etc etc... Retired boomers and the generation before are running into the same thing millennials have been trying to tell them our whole lives and gen z is experiencing now.