2024 US Presidential Election

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EnricoPallazzo said:

Some really interesting data coming. Gen Z voted for Trump in it's majority, something I would never expect to see. It seems they are not as liberal as progressive as some would say. Also it seems while trump votes are not that far from 2020 and 2016, there were 15 million votes less for Harris compared to Biden. Thats crazy.  

Yeah I've noticed this too.

I found a youtube comment on a Vtuber vid that stood out to me in regards to this election:

"Since Elon Musk and Joe Rogan are clearly involved with Trump and they're credited with giving Trump the boost for him to win, it's possible we may see the first republican administration that is more libertarian leaning rather than conservative with Musk showing a lot of eagerness to be very involved with the new administration."

"So me as a right winger myself, one of the things I have always detested about my side is the Right's stubborn reluctance to embrace youth culture. Why does the Left often win culture war battles while the Right loses? The answer comes down to how they treat youth culture. Back in my day, the Religious Right and other factions of the Right would foolishly demonize young people and the things they liked which scared them away from even voting for them (calling people degenerates for reading Harry Potter or calling people satanists for playing Dungeons and Dragons and demonizing gamers that played Doom and Mortal Kombat did the Right no favors); meanwhile the Left at the time made the wise choice to embrace youth culture because the Left realized that to stay relevant then they have to appeal to young people so they wouldn't have to worry about the Right that much. It's why the Left usually wins."

"Well things have changed since then. Now and days, progressives attack young people for their hobbies and call them every name in the book though their hubris. I think Trump is making the wise choice to have some notable libertarian minded people join him. Musk is popular with young people, Joe Rogan is popular with young people and many of those big libertarian celebrities are also nerds like you and me. I think Trump realizes that for the Right to stay relevant, the Right needs to embrace youth culture and have more libertarian minded individuals on board to beat the Left because the Left right now is making every mistake the Right used to made back in my day."

Now I don't entirely agree with what they said, but the part about tapping into the current day youth is what stood out to me. It stood out to me, because I have seen that happening slowly over time. The part especially about the right shitting all over games back in the day, citing them as the source for gun violence, Rock being spawned from the devil, etc. All of that was pushing away that generation of youth (heck it's what got me disliking boomers a lot, and still do, because some of them still cling onto that super dated mindset that has proven to being wrong).

I do think if the other side wants to see better results next time and going forward, they are going to have to start connecting more with the younger generations of people, and not belittle them, call them names (like Nazi/Fascist for a start) and degrading them as humans, and actually treat with equality (not equity, people get that mixed up so hard and it annoys me).