How COVID Pushed a Generation of Young People to the Right

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1. The Atlantic can suck my dick. They’re blaming COVID rather than a directionless Democratic party that beats the DEI/pronoun drum to hide the fact their economic policies are no different from the loyal opposition. To hide the fact Democrats could give two shits about working class America to the point Democrats can’t even give them the lip service that the Republicans gave them by acknowledging their frustration and disenfranchisement.

2. This needs to be brought up more often. Social media weaponized with propaganda, most can’t even name the three branches of government, and here we are.

3. The backlash against authorities was predictable, given how confusing and intentionally obfuscated and sometimes outright false a lot of the guidance and information was. When you tell what you consider to be “white lies” or simplifications or generalizations dumbed down for the public’s “own good”, don’t be surprised when people interpret these inconsistencies and falsehoods to be evidence of a lack of trustworthiness 

4. Wild cuz it turned me from an “enlightened centrist” to a fairly hard left progressive who thinks the rich are a parasite class who we should regulate at best and destroy at worst.

5. Covid hit during our developmental years, it hit us HARD right as we entered voting age, being locked up and unable to adult comfortably.

   And what did the government do? blame each other for the shit that happened and let us have the free time to think.

   turns out, the party that spent all this time going after one guy, being super paranoid that he could win again, while fearmongering about “threats to our livelihoods”, ended up fufilling their own prophecies.

6. It might have made it worse, but “based” culture was already alive and well in the 201X it was born out of a reaction to the wave of feminisim that is atributed stuff like gamer gate and other similar stuff.

7. >For decades, **America’s young voters have been deeply—and famously—progressive**. In 2008, a youthquake sent Barack Obama to the White House. In 2016, voters ages 18 to 29 broke for **Hillary Clinton** by 18 points. In 2020, they voted for **Joe Biden** by 24 points.

   Your daily reminder that The Atlantic is owned by Steve Jobs’ ex. What an absolute rag. lol

   No, covid did not push anyone anywhere. The blatant lies from the establishment obliterated what little trust there was between government officials and the general public. They seem to believe everyone is incredibly stupid and never questions the narrative. While that may be true in most cases, there are plenty of people willing to push back on the nonsense. We watched as those people were banned from social media. We watched as Anthony Fauci lied through his fucking teeth to a congressional committee. We see what’s going on. It’s not pushing us to the far right, it’s just pushing us away from these amoral sociopaths who will do anything for more wealth and power.

8. Was it

   * The massive debt they inherited just for existing?
   * Knowing they will never retire?
   * Having to work to sustain yourself and two pensionists by the time you’re 30?
   * Being lied to over and over about how safe/effective the vaccine is? About the two weeks to flatten the curve?
   * Being censored to keep people from fact checking the official lies?
   * Going unemployed because of a forceful lockdown that didn’t stop any of the spread?
   * Seeing the government-inflicted lockdown cause the largest wealth concentration in human history?

   No, it must be the social media!

9. Who would have guessed that forcing young people to make social and economic sacrifices for something that was never a threat to them would jade their politics. Next up, read about how a conscription during and unpopular war can lead to protest movements on college campuses.

10. I remember them lying to us in the UK that it would be a few weeks. Then, even when we knew us young people would be fine. Forcing me to lose 2 years of my life for what?

    Then we got the vaccines out and we spent a summer fucking around with masks and apps. Even though once again, we knew it was either the vaccines worked or they didn’t.

    All to find out had we lived in fucking Florida, without the restrictions we’d have ended up about the same place we were.

    So good job UK. Wasted 2 years for fuck all.

    So jealous of Americans sometimes

11. The funny part to me is that the guy who was President when it all went down is the guy that was elected again. You can’t vote against the establishment by voting for the incumbent’s predecessor. Well, you can, but not if you are expecting anything to change. Donald already had his chance. What did people think would be different this time? That is where Dems screwed up by not letting a fresh face run for office.

12. EVERYONE swung right in the last election. Women, minorities, immigrants, etc…

    People weren’t happy about the direction the country is going in 2024 and the dems ran a pretty terrible campaign. The results are about as you’d expect.

13. Because the left leaning states in the US and many left leaning nations, when given the authority to control your lives took full opportunity to do so. Then they ridiculed everyone from their basements, many of whom have yet to come out.

14. COVID didn’t push people to the right, deli erate misinformationduring COVID did, including stickering campaigns, whatsapp groups, the lot.

    What was learned then was used and iterated on for further campaigns. 

    We were all there, it’s not that long ago.

15. There’s a much simpler and much more likely answer to this phenomenon – counter culture. Millennials and especially millennial women are overwhelmingly left wing and self described progressives. Their *children* don’t think their mothers and fathers are cool, it’s also why the zoomers don’t drink, fuck or take drugs at anywhere near the same rate their parents did, cokes much less cool when you hear your dad doing it in the toilet when he gets home from the pub at night, not is sexual proclivity so hot when your mother’s on her third man of the week.

    They’re just rebelling against the status quo.

16. People saw what governments did in response to the working class getting even a bit of power. That’s why.

    The federal reserve in the US was intentionally trying to keep wages from rising, and the Canadian government decided to import the entire population of Punjab and remove every possible restriction on the jobs and the amount of hours ‘international students’ were allowed to work. A betrayal like that definitely turns people against the government in power.

17. As expected, the neoliberal media is gonna blame everything on the rise of far-right parties except for the actual reason (immigration) and they get surprised when anti-immigration party is on the rise.

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