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Chris Spiess's avatar

I don’t know what you’re age & social media habits are but there are quite a few people that really don’t care, either because they’re unaware or think it won’t effect them. Younger people specifically seem to be laughing at all of this & rolling their eyes.

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Spencer $ Sally Jones's avatar

Most young people who roll their eyes cannot even remember Trump‘s first president presidency. They have never lived through a war and have little knowledge of other countries in the world. Is it grass or ketamine or just a poor education that makes them unable to imagine what a dictatorship is like. The old trope of “it won’t happen to me“ appears to be believed.

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Chris Spiess's avatar

I think since they’re constantly on their phones they’re inundated with misinformation that you or I know is BS. The right has completely dominated the content game when it comes to things like using younger influencers & comedians to have podcasts that use something other than politics to draw them in but then once they’re in, start hitting them with whatever propaganda they (the powers on the right) think they (the youth) need to hear. The youth aren’t really interested in politics so for the most part, they won’t care to follow up. That’s just how I’ve observed things the last few years .

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Spencer $ Sally Jones's avatar

Yes, I agree with you. They are always on their phones rehashing their dramas with their friends. Unfortunately, too few families eat dinner together anymore where we used to have cross-generation conversations. IMO, we need to scrap article 233 and regulate social media. In my dreams I would have a large electrical outage hit all purveyors of deliberate misinformation.

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Mary's avatar

Chris, agree with this, and I don't necessarily blame them, but they are soon going to experience the FO part of FAFO

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JVG's avatar

Is that true for the ones who can't afford to buy homes and whose rent and gas and food bills are all going up at an uncomfortably rapid pace?

I'm of the generation that has the most assets but I'm concerned about them seriously effing up economies so that they're worth nothing.

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DLVino's avatar

Well I can tell you my college age son is an exception. He is well aware and calls his Senators weekly.

His campus recently had a group of students protesting the colleges investments in Israel.

He told them they should be protesting what their President is doing to our institutions.

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Kate Fall's avatar

Don't worry, those young people blame us for that. And they're not completely off-base either. After all, it's the people with the most who make sure everyone else has the least.

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Mary's avatar

Same

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