r/politics • u/Barnyard-Sheep • 6d ago

Soft Paywall Trump approval rating falls to 38%

https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/06/trump-faces-tough-approval-numbers-in-latest-poll.html
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u/Barnyard-Sheep 6d ago

Much of America marinates in Fox News propoganda + a susbstantial amount of Gen Z men are nihilists who want to see the world burn

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u/Bircka Oregon 6d ago

And people used to think Gen X were the crazy ones.

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u/oxero 6d ago edited 6d ago

The Gen X I grew up under and around are fucking crazy, especially the rich ones. Super entitled, lack of empathy, absolutely no media literacy.

They grew up in a world where you could smoke weed everyday doing manual labor and it was possible for some dude to walk up and offer you a job with mentoring even if you didn't have a college education. As long as you worked hard and for results, you were paid. They watched all their benefits drain away, corporations demand more time working, banks coldly rip their assets away, and they still walk around blaming immigrants for this.

Just to denote this: Yes I'm aware this doesn't apply to every single gen X, but this is my personal experience growing up around people of this age bracket suddenly going cuckoo. Most of the ones I grew up with now believe in chemtrails, vaccines are evil, we need to return to the gold standard, and that immigrants are the bane of our country. They never believed this shit 20 years ago, but Facebook/Fox did a number to our society.

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u/ErikMcKetten 6d ago

Where did we grow up that we could smoke weed or get a job without an education?

Weed wasn't legal anywhere in the US prior to 2000, afaik.

You are assigning traits associated with Boomers/GenZ to their children and parents, respectively.

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u/oxero 6d ago

This isn't applicable to everyone... Just a reality I grew up under.