Reform UK most popular party among Gen Z men

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1. OK, so, Incels are a political party now.

   Are you that hard up, Gen Z?

   Have you tried just saying ‘Hi’ to a person you’re attracted to?

2. I will never understand this mentality.. They are voting for a political party who is worse than the others, and in the end, they will be the only ones who are shocked when Reform will show them the middle finger, and ask them to spread their ass for the billionaires.

3. I used to think that every new generation will be smarter than the previous one.
   But right now I’m stuck in a stupid sandwich between boomers and zoomers, wtaf. We are so cooked.

4. Note this is very different to what YouGov are claiming:

   https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/trackers/voting-intention?crossBreak=1824

   Even so, this group is the most targeted for online radicalization. Reform are a weird mix of Facebook boomers and incel types.

   However, this is poll is still only claiming minority support at 31%.

5. An example as to why Gen Z might drift to reform is exemplified by this quote

   ‘“We also find ideological and wellbeing divides. Young women report lower life satisfaction and feel stressed more often compared to men.

   “They also overwhelmingly think society treats them worse than men and are less likely to view immigration and crime as major issues.”’

   Although it acknowledges ‘ideological and wellbeing divides’ the article only talks about it from the women’s point of view in any detail.

   If you’re not going to listen to men and give them the opportunity to express their lived experiences, why be surprised if they don’t vote for you.

6. People globally are fed up with liberalism, populism is very hot right now but the only parties even pretending to offer a solution are the far right ones because they’re morally bankrupt enough to lie and cheat and steal to get what they want and the population as a whole is uneducated and/or desperate enough to believe in them.

7. I’ve been saying for years that the generation after millennials would be more conservative.

   In a way they aren’t. Acceptance of gay people for example has faded from debate; kids don’t routinely use “hahah you dropped your gay card” in the way that they used to. But at the same time the focus on identity politics and policing exactly what words are and are not acceptable, especially when that is ignorant of context and nuance (see how Benedict Cumberbatch got lambasted for saying “Hollywood needs to be more willing to give coloured people parts” as racist because he said coloured people instead of people of colour), it’s bound to lead to a backlash and leave the whole progressive movement open to criticism.

8. Me, an American wondering what the Reform Party is. Me, also, opening up the story and seeing Nigel Farage’s name as the leader of the Reform Party: 👀👎

9. Young men in the Western world are all just nihilistic edgelords at this point. They have no principled political stance in either direction. They will vote for whichever party they think is the most likely to burn the whole thing down, and right now that’s Reform.

10. I’m gen z, older side at least and I just don’t understand how people around my age can look at Reform and Farage and think it’s a good idea. We grew up with conservatives slowly making everything worse and then we get hit with brexit, which farage was the face of, making promises he knew couldn’t be kept about immigration and NHS funding. Fast forward to now, multiple Reform local councils are increasing taxes, privatising the NHS and since brexit where we were supposed to be gaining control of our borders immigration is worse than ever and he’s still campaigning on how listening to him will fix the country, not the mention so many of Reform’s voters and MPs are just defected tories, just voting for the same people that got us into these problems theyre just under a different name.

11. To be clear, the headline slightly betrays the bigger story here. Yes, this follows wider trends of young men supporting far-right parties and Reform has basically a monopoly over votes on the right. But it’s also because the left is splintered: young progressives are incredibly dissatisfied with Labour and while some I suspect are staying put, others have moved to the Greens, the Lib Dems, the theoretical Corbyn/Sultana new socialist party, and Plaid/SNP.

12. They’ve watched generation y get fucked at every turn and they know that if things don’t change that they’re going to get it even worse.

    I really believe that this isn’t so much about support for Reform as it is about wanting to try anything that isn’t a repeat of the last 15 years.

13. As a Gen Z, i can say now that i will not waste my vote on parties such as Reform UK, who plan to destroy our country, and deport everyone who objects to it.

14. Why not regulate ‘large online platforms’ like Twitter, categorised as such within the DSA? Who are obligated to combat dis/misinformation and make their data available for independent analysis.

    Cause they haven’t met those obligations and now we’re seeing what happens when social media manipulation and Russian active measures collide.

    Or would it be better to just watch it all slip away like a pack of fucking morons? That’s my most pressing question atm for anyone in Brussels. Yes I have written to them and it’s why I know Twitter haven’t met those obligations. As of a few months ago it seems fuck all is being done about it.

    We’re in the process of getting played, hard. UK is cooked, America is gonna pop soon, EU next (you are here).

15. In the US a lot of gen z broke for trump and they’ve also now reverted to being either the biggest or second biggest disapproval group in recent polling. I am not sure what to make of this.

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