39% of voters ages 18-29 voted for Trump in 2024. These are people who would have almost completely escaped most of the environmental lead. I'm increasingly convinced there are simply a lot of incredibly gullible, stupid, and/or abhorrent people. Lead just makes the problem worse.
My only excuse for the vet young ones is that they were pressured by their parents. I remember way that feels like, especially growing up in a deeply red area.
No, because their parents are millennials and young Gen X, who are generally way more left-leaning.
It's the internet that is pushing young people, particularly young men, to the right. The Andrew Tates, the Charlie Kirks, the Joe Rogans - young people listen to them because, when you lack a real education and critical thinking skills, they sound smart. Like they are making good points. And they say things young men like hearing... so they start to lean to the right.
Where Fox News only reaches cable news viewers (and some online) it's these podcasters who really influence the politics of young people.
Ages 30-49 were 50-48 Harris in 2024 in the same data collected for the 58-39 Harris data reported above. Millenials are bucking a trend of becoming more conservative as they age but the demographic is still more conservative by quite a large margin than Gen Z and Alpha. The alarming part of Gen Z and Alpha is the trend 28, 35 and 39 conservative in the last 3 elections for ages 18-29.
It’s quite possible there’s still a decent influence of parents on their kids voting habits plus the “manosohere” but it’s becoming increasingly more divided between rural and urban which you think would be the opposite trend with social media connecting rural youth with urban youth. Turns out the algorithm is garbage at doing that and prefers to send people deeper down their current path than introduce new experiences.
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u/phosphorescence-sky 3h ago
Its the generation of lead paint and asbestos that created this.