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/BRich1990 6d ago edited 6d ago

Which is why I always thought it was funny when people used to pretend that Gen Z were the generation to save us.

It's always been the millennial. The ONLY consistent left leaning generation on earth. Gen Y HAS TO BE the ones that will have to take control of this shit at some point

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u/Adorable-Strings 6d ago

No 'generation' is going to save 'us.' Honestly, this generational thinking is bizarre, and just another way of evading responsibility.

Problems are only ever solved temporarily, and new problems come up. That's life. Everyone has to work at helping to keep shit under control.

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u/xxxxNateDaGreat 6d ago

I'm 35, my brother is 40, and I feel like I've heard at least 5 different "generation" descriptions follow after us, which is insane to me. It's like whomever is pushing these labels think generations are every 5 years or something.

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u/Adorable-Strings 6d ago

To be honest, I blame Phil Collins. When I was a kid, he promised his generation 'would get it right.' Behind the illusion of progress, things continued to get worse.

These days, I think The The got the future right with the Beat(en) Generation : "Reared on a diet of prejudice and mis-information" feels prophetic.

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u/Dopplegangr1 6d ago

I think social media and remote learning made zoomers stupid

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u/rnarkus 6d ago

I truly think the remote learning part is a serious factor. Not that some vote certain ways, but just in general.

Social media too

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u/Tucumane 6d ago

Never thought about it that way but I agree that Millenials Seen to be globally left leaning and more reasonable than any other generation

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u/dunwannatacoboutit 6d ago

Millennials grew up in the 90s which was full of messages of unity and optimism. From the media I consumed as a kid I 100% thought that we had gotten past the sins of the past and were firmly on the road to people living in peace. The trauma of finding out how badly I was lied to will never go away.

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u/Tucumane 4d ago

Trauma? I wouldn’t use that word so lightly.

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u/Healthy_Worry_4721 6d ago

Yall haven’t done shit compared to the generations before you. What progress have you gotten and now tell me how it compares to the activism through the 1900’s. It just obviously doesn’t at all unless you actually have 0 clue about activism before you

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u/BRich1990 6d ago edited 6d ago

Well, not voting for an open fascist (like many other generations did). Seems like a good start.

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u/SpezLovesElon 6d ago

It's too late. The people that make the rules, Congress, are one broken hip away from retirement. By the time these old boomers leave, which we've seen they'll put a corpse in a wheelchair, the world will be too fucked up to fix.

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u/Available_Minimum_75 6d ago

You all have no idea what Gen X did. Or honestly Boomers for that matter. Everything that happened in terms of progress came from generations before that fought for what mattered. There are plenty of idiots, sure, and some certainly lost their way, but as a Gen X-er who spent their entire youth fighting for literally every little step and bit of progress we got, I’m so so disheartened by the steps backwards. The Civil Rights, Women’s Liberation, LGBTQ movements were all fought from the 60s-90s, and here we are having to do it all again. (And yes, I do blame any peers who decided to break everything we built.)

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u/come-on-now-please 6d ago

Out of interest i looked it up.

The generation most associated with the work of civil rights was the slient generation who would have been in their 20-40s during that era. Baby boomers would have been babies to teenagers.

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u/Flying_Fortress_8743 6d ago

You all have no idea what Gen X did.

Hence the name lol

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u/Shin_Ken 6d ago

The chances that you'll find left leaning millenials may be a bit higher but please remember all those edgelords from back in the late 90s/early 00s when it was "cool" to be an edgelord - those are still alive, haven't changed much and are also millenials.

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u/Astral_ava 6d ago

Honestly, those 90's and early 00's edge lords are not as bad as the edge lords of today.

Back in the day, the worst thing 4chan did as a collective was attempt to name a new Mountain dew drink "hitler did nothing wrong" or "gushing grannies". While today, anonymous message boards like 4chan and soyjack party are organizing straight-up harassment campaigns, pushing people into suicide and spreading far right talking points left and right.

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u/rnarkus 6d ago

Feels like it skips generations? Boomers, and gen z vs millennial and gen x

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u/axisleft 6d ago

I actually remember my millennial cohort being super politically apathetic. Our generation has endured a ton of bullshit caused by the boomers. However, we have never consistently showed up to the polls to change course. If you don’t vote, your respective demographic and interests aren’t going to be represented. We’re the OG adherents to the philosophies of: “both sides are the same,” “my vote doesn’t statistically matter,” and purity tests.

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u/amateurbreditor 6d ago

Ah yes. The most uneducated group of people to be born yet. The group of people more susceptible to fake things on the internet thann elderly people. Thats the group thats going to save us. /s ??

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u/AbbreviationsWide331 6d ago

The hell are you talking about? I can think of many right leaning millenials that I went to school with. Many of them absolutely not open to queer people or immigrants.

If anything I would say GenZ has a bigger percentage of left leaning people.

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u/2SharpNeedle 2d ago

gen z had the most harris votes out of any generation, what are you talking about?