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Why socialism resonates with Gen Z and Millennials across the US
Money Control ^ | Sep 28, 2025

Posted on 11/22/2025 7:51:45 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege

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To: millenial4freedom

I suspect Trump’s greater popularity now, with younger men, is due largely to his attitude that dark day in Butler PA. People I talk with usually comment positively on Trump’s “badass” status since that event. Even apes recognize and respect personal courage.
I would say the older generations don’t really understand just how poorly educated my generation is. Your kids, your grandkids, may be exceptional, but for every 1 of them there are 99 ignorant and indoctrinated.


41 posted on 11/22/2025 9:04:07 AM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Why socialism resonates with Gen Z and Millennials across the US

Don't blame them. They just want all of the same free stuff for themselves that we dole out to the underclass; free housing, living stipends, free food, free healthcare, free college, free bus passes...

They see the same TikTok videos of Shaniqua with her EBT haul and think, "I'd like to eat steak too."

42 posted on 11/22/2025 9:05:19 AM PST by Drew68
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To: eastexsteve
It's because they were sold a bill of goods by Obama and Biden.

No, it's because of the problems caused by the ruling classes of both parties.

Inflation has been caused largely by printing money and excessive government spending.

Government-supported college loans eliminated market forces, led to massive college tuitions and enslaved the younger generation.

Third parties, especially the government, are paying for almost all healthcare and healthcare insurance. Healthcare is devoid of market forces. We have one of the least cost effective healthcare systems in the world.

Democrats are more responsible than Republicans for the problems but Republicans have come close to solving them.

It's not surprising at all many in the Gen Z and Millennials are turning to socialism.

43 posted on 11/22/2025 9:07:24 AM PST by Kazan
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To: Buttons12
I’m acquainted with a large number of students and faculty at three universities. Most are, at minimum, sympathetic to socialism.

Also, about 58% of college students in the U.S. are female.

So there's a split in the Gen Z vote, men voted for Trump, women voted for Harris.

44 posted on 11/22/2025 9:07:34 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Kazan
Government-supported college loans eliminated market forces, led to massive college tuitions and enslaved the younger generation.

Subsided over-educated college graduates in majors that were worthless. Now that they have no job skills. So it's not too surprising at all that they are embracing Marxism.

45 posted on 11/22/2025 9:09:34 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

You are transparent now.


46 posted on 11/22/2025 9:09:51 AM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.d)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Here;s my take.......they all have grown up on SOCIAL MEDIA, and they LOVE IT ALL, so ANYTHING with the word “SOCIAL” in it they love also!! PLUS, they have NEVER learned the EVILS of Socialism is PUBLIC SCHOOLS, and their DUMBASS parents never taught them about it either!


47 posted on 11/22/2025 9:10:06 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Why? Because they’re stupid and don’t even know what it means.


48 posted on 11/22/2025 9:10:53 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: MinorityRepublican

Yes, it’s mostly the males I hear this from. Females don’t talk to me nearly as much ;)


49 posted on 11/22/2025 9:11:49 AM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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To: Lockbox
Oh man....that rings a VERY FAMILIAR BELL!! My father repeated MAN, MANY, MANY times.......

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH

THE WORLD DOESN'T OWE YOU A LIVING!

IF IT SEEMS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE IT IS!!

DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ OR HEAR, DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH!!

50 posted on 11/22/2025 9:14:15 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Buttons12

Compared to previous generations, Gen Z men are much more conservative. But at the same time, Gen Z women are that much more liberal.

51 posted on 11/22/2025 9:19:07 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Kazan
No, it's because of the problems caused by the ruling classes of both parties.

This. It's easy to rag on young people for clumsily navigating an economic dystopia that they had no part in creating.

I'm Gen-X. The rule always was, get a college degree, any degree, and you'll have a ticket to the middle class.

And college degrees back then weren't terribly expensive, about the cost of a new car. Today they're about the cost of a house.

And the rule today is you need to get a degree in a hard science. Engineering, computers, whatnot. Why? So you can lose your job to an H-1B, if you can find one at all?

And forget even buying a house. They're way too expensive (unless you're illegal or black and then one will be provided to you).

So allow them the pleasure of their morning Starbucks Frappucino. It's one of the few joys in life they can afford.

52 posted on 11/22/2025 9:19:40 AM PST by Drew68
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To: eyeamok
Well, not to defend the lenders too much, but it was the government who instigated the mortgage meltdown. The government required that banks loan to minorities and other disadvantaged groups. If they didn't they were subjected to severe penalties. Once the banks had made these risky loans, they discovered that they could make lemonade out of lemons by bundling them up in mortgage based securities and unloading them on the secondary market. Win-win. All they had to do was grease the palms of willing rating agencies. Banks were greedy, no doubt. But the government, using things like the Community Reinvestment Act was the the origin of the crisis.
53 posted on 11/22/2025 9:21:07 AM PST by fhayek
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To: Sirius Lee; CondoleezzaProtege

Mamdani’s win seems to have gotten CondoleezzaProtege to drop the thin facade hiding his leftism.


54 posted on 11/22/2025 9:29:41 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12

Yeah it did. Everyone outs themselves eventually.


55 posted on 11/22/2025 9:44:24 AM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.d)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege; All

Lol, all across America. Leftirs think the Blue Stayescare all of America.


56 posted on 11/22/2025 9:51:43 AM PST by cowboyusa ( YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA AND HE WwILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: alexander_busek

watching low-income immigrant families

We shouldn’t have any low income immigrant families. If they can’t take care of themselves then we don’t want them. Low income legal immigrants qualify for benefits. They shouldn’t.


57 posted on 11/22/2025 9:53:02 AM PST by sheana
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To: dfwgator

They’d get the royal treatment like other Americans who escaped to there to prove how awesome things are going .


58 posted on 11/22/2025 10:09:17 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. šŸš«šŸ’‰! šŸ‡®šŸ‡±šŸ™! Winning currently!)
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To: Texas Eagle

Or ask a Cambodian. Or Vietnamese.


59 posted on 11/22/2025 10:25:26 AM PST by kaktuskid
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

It sowsn’t playboy in the Red and Purple Srates.


60 posted on 11/22/2025 10:48:33 AM PST by cowboyusa ( YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA AND HE WwILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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