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It's this condescending, paternalistic attitude that I think is losing the progressives the younger demographic in regards to votes.
The conservatives treat young voters as cool and powerful and important and savvy.
The progressives treat young voters as idealistic and misguided and impetuous and as supplicants. (Feinstein, may she rot in piss, displays this attitude perfectly here when talking to young people about climate change.)
Yet, for some unknown reason, progressives can't seem to understand how you have these model apostate ex-progressive young people who talk about how "the left" is all groupthink and enforced conformity and how you'll get cast out for saying the wrong thing so that's why they switched to being a conservative.
Gee, I wonder why young adults are abandoning your movement when you treat them like naughty children who need to be disciplined whenever they overstep their "boundaries" or they express the wrong opinion instead of treating them as equals and as fully-fledged adults with all the respect that entails?
Let's talk about it laterrrr
This just isn't true? Young people overwhelmingly support the dems.
The "model apostate ex-progressive young people" are all just grifters like Candace Owens. Also I don't know anyone who'd call the dem establishment "progressive". That label really only applies to Bernie, "the squad", and a handful of others like Fetterman.
Imma be honest that’s almost as depressing as young people supporting republicans.
To be fair I should have said "young people who vote", because turnout was still only 55% in 2020 and sub-30% in the 2022 midterms.
Do you think conservatives are winning over young adults? Because they definitely aren't, zoomers aren't becoming more right-wing by any means. A lot of young people are obviously becoming disillusioned with the liberal status quo and abandoning Dems, but the majority of those become leftist types.
Did you accidentally switch around conservative and progressive consistently in this post? It looks like a mega brain fart