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Posted on 04/25/2026 7:36:05 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
Small government has been a staple of American politics for decades, but that staple is finally coming loose among younger generations like Gen Z. Why?
Why are Generation Z, Millennials and others REJECTING small government? This isn't just about Gen-Z being "far right," generation-z is seeking political change in the face of instability - a return toward order, tradition, security, and real power.
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too young and stupid to reject anything
It is going to take a generation to change things, one person at a time.
No, I’m not called for just one person. What I currently have now is in fact working, I just don’t know if its enough.
But maybe its the biggest I can achieve.
But maybe its the biggest I can achieve.
You don’t change people thru technology, you change people thru relationships. and that is hard work. I have lower expectations I guess, at my age.
They are raised for it.
Starts with day care, then public schools, then college - which nowadays is just daycare with alcohol, and to living with their parents again because they can’t afford to move out.
The extended “under the wing” time is what makes them want more of it later in life. People who spend the first 40 years in childhood expect it to continue.
It’s like those monkeys raised in zoos that are afraid to step on grass.
What’s really happening is disillusion.
When my bother quick smoking, he put a tooth pick in his mouth to relace the cig. still does.
you replace a bad habit with a good one. What can we give them to replace disillusion?
Not what Trump has done, we can support that.
We don’t have a small government to reject.
There isn’t a bigger economic entity on earth than the US Federal government. Small? At best that’s a relative term when it comes to discussing that.
That simply doesn’t work unless you have a massive government to hide all the costs they think they don’t have to pay.
Gen Z. Silver spooners who think EVERYTHING should be free and they should not waste their time working for a living. The have the same “american dream” that the illegal aliens have.
That’s a given though. If we didn’t subsidize our economy via massive gov spending and debt the charade would be exposed. The entire point of government right now is to ensure the system keeps going and the status quo stays.
LBJ-Nixon did the most to destroy small government, local government. Everything since then has been trying to figure out how to adapt and use why LBJ-Nixon started.
We do have a small government ideal, and it has been rejected.
You betcha.
But it is ironic, because Gen Z has been sold down the river into debt slavery by prior generations overspending, government waste and fraud. Not to mention the welfare, social security and medicare burdens they will stagger under. They ought to be the most hostile to reliance on government because that's the mindset that will place a crushing financial and spiritual burden on them their entire lives.
Agreed. There is a very real problem that we have that Christians have entirely abandoned American culture.
We all know the truth: Nature abhors a vacuum. So the willing absence of Christians produces what result? What will fill that vacuum?
And no I absolutely do not buy into the excuses. Christians were retreating prior to the modern persecution. That's what the timeline tells us.
So the willing absence of Christians in the culture produces what result? What do you expect will be the fruit of this particular tree. What will fill the vacuum?
The 14th Amendment was what opened that door by offering corporations "equal protection" to people.
Agreed.
Honestly, there a deep unpopularity among conservatives for the Founding Fathers, and in some quarters there is even an animosity for the Founding Fathers.
I can’t be the only one who sees it. And I don’t mean GenZ. Among BoomerCons, among GenXcons, and even older conservatives still alive - though the oldest are the most likely to be pro-Founder. Millennials are in the same category, there’s no interest whatsoever for the Founding.
I think I even make people upset with the way I have chosen to revive the works of the Founders. The big government attitude is much, much more pervasive. It is what I see anyways. I think people want the Founding to be dead and keep it dead in favor of a much more dictatorial government just not a “progressive” dictatorial government.
The progressives’ project to get rid of the Founders has been a resounding success across all generations. We bought it and its a popular seller, the shelves are bare. They can’t keep it in stock.
We refuse to identify the enemy(progressives) so we are simply falling to the Sun Tzu principle.
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle - Sun Tzu (Art of War, Chapter 3)
Nobody, nobody wants to name progressivism. And the Founders are unpopular. So we succumb in every battle.
Every generation since the dawn of the 20th century has rejected small government.
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