Did anyone bother to read the actual poll results? First, Republicans are way undersampled at 516 respondents vs 789 Dems and 800 Independents. Thus any aggregate result will skew away from Conservatives.
Further, on the question "My rights are under attack in America today" 62% of Democrats AND 62% of Republicans answered YES; Independents answered YES 55% of the time. That's what gives us the aggregate 59%. The respective percentages for the concern for the rights of others are 81%, 69%, and 61%.
Thus, we have a tale of two or three cities.... but Praeger et al slime the lot. That's a great strategy - stereotyping. It's bad when the left calls us racists, but I guess it's ok when and old guy bashes the kidz in toto. Whoever dreamt up the strategy of "hey, let's keep calling anyone under 35 stupid - and then they'll start voting for Deplorables" is an idiot.
Continued sober analysis cheers one up. The Biden disapproval rating of 58% was in part driven by a whopping 94% disapproval rating from the Republican youths. In fact, if you look at the results by political affiliation the Republican youths are getting it right.
Every generation starts out idealistic and stupid. Then they grow up. The Boomers were drugged out hippies, GenX were depressed grungers, and so on...yet they elected Trump. The same is happening to Millenials as they age. But we geezers would rather blame youths for being youths, as we forget our youthful stupidity, say "but it's DIFFERENT today" as we listen to The Last Waltz on our Walkman.
Further, if you let the MSM think for you, as they interview GenZers who live in NYC and LA or D.C. (i.e. Where the MSM live) of COURSE you'll get a biased sample of pod-eating snowflakes. It's by design...they WANT you to have no hope.
It's time for the adults to be adults. Stop letting that the MSM and TikTok think for you. Across Scouts, coworkers, and friends, I find most youths to be pretty sharp. They know Joe is a loser, they own guns, they see the scamdemic for what it was, and they work hard. Sure, there are leftist people under 30 who think we have 12.45 years to fix climate change: they get put on MSNBC while the conservative kids work two jobs and listen to podcasts and stay out of the fray.
I don't know why Praeger wrote such an emotional, void-of-fact piece. Maybe he's got Post-election blues, and trying to blame someone for the lack of a Red Wave. Dude, we got the House, the RNC wasn't pushing hard, we were coming from a high baseline, the Dems lose Committee assignments, and we will have gridlock for 2 years. And it's not the kids fault. Take a Midol, put on a manpon, and look at actual data - they tell a different story, Dennis.
I agree with almost everything you stated.
Except, IQ’s are really dropping. That is real. You have been lucky enough to be around the kids that have been selected out by motivation and different parents/life experience.
I don’t think this time is like the past. Critical thinking skill have evaporated in the new generation, they don’t solve problems they expect someone to do it for them.
They may be upset with Biden, but they have NOT learned that the lies that got them to accept Biden in the place. They don’t understand that ‘loan forgiveness’ ‘pot for everyone’ ‘free healthcare’ is old fashioned vote buying that makes everyone worse off. Older generations figured it out, I don’t know about the new ones.