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.

  • @jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
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    -110 months ago

    Misinformation. Both parties are not the same and votes ARE counted. A Clinton/Biden Supreme court would NEVER have elimimated Roe.

    • @conorm@feddit.uk
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      -110 months ago

      you’re incorrect and you fall rather easily into the trap of genuinely believing that democracy exists, especially in america, one of the nations with the longest list of known (and unknown) human rights violations in history

      • @jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
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        210 months ago

        Oh, I’m not arguing that at all. I’m saying that when it comes to many issues, both sides are NOT the same.

        Democrats aren’t trying to take away health care rights. Republicans are.

        Republicans aren’t trying to take away gun rights, Democrats are.

        Are both sides servicing corporate masters? Sure they are, but that doesn’t make them the same corporate masters.

        This is best explained, honest to god, by an Eddie Murphy movie of all things:

        https://youtu.be/w7fBwc803CI#t=1m45s