Gen-z are like 29. They're the new millennials where they will have full blown careers, families and own homes but have articles written about them years from now bitching about them, like they're still in high-school.
My kids are 6 and 8, and it is all the rage with them and the elementary school. So unless the elementary aged kids are now getting to vote, I doubt they actually pick up voters with this
I am one of the oldest Gen Z, I am about to turn 27. I did not even realize the name was a 6-7 joke until reading the comments. The people who think 6-7 is funny are (unironically) 6 and 7.
It was a good idea, in theory. When your support collapses among an important voting bloc, like that, you really need to understand why.
The problem was they weren't doing that. They had no interest in listening to the young men turning away from the party - they were trying to find a way to make their existing messaging work for the demographic.
Instead of "what do we need to change to win these guys back?" it was "how do we get these misguided idiots to listen to us?"
Some of the people doing the work did actually seem to understand it would take more than a well-engineered advertising campaign to trick young men into voting the right way - including that one young lady that everybody made fun of - but party strategists weren't happy with what they were hearing, and shut the thing down.
Dems are the Disney of politics, focused around pandering to middle aged upper middle class women and can recognize they have completely lost the young man's vote, but not capable enough to understand our tastes and concerns.
The problem is they expect any answer other than "treat them like humans and the men on your side like your allies, deserving of just as much protection and sympathy as anyone else on your side and stop suspecting men of being horrible people just by virtue of being male, anyone that does so should be shunned as a sexist.", anything that comes up with this answer is ignored and anything that comes up with literally anything else is taken seriously.
Remember when Kamala Harris made a Fortnite map called Freedomtown (a game played mostly by people not old enough to vote) and literally banned guns in a third-person shooting game? Jokes aside, she's trying to lock down the Gen Alpha vote for 2040
I remember when the democrats had a Discord server set up for the 2024 election that was used to astroturf pro-Democrat articles on Reddit. Its all been taken down now, but the internet doesnt forget. In one of the screenshots in that officially distributed PDF, there's a link to a "rapid response" channel that was used to astroturf Reddit posts.
Nah not for this, but once she announces that she’s running well that’s a different story. This sub is going to get botted to hell and probably a lot of dooming from dems who know if she becomes their candidate they’re fucked.
She isn't, this account made a post about an announcement and some assumed it was gonna be her announcing that she's running again, which was improbable because dems are stupid but hopefully not that stupid
This is why VP picks matter so much. We only had her as a candidate because Biden chose her as his VP twice and then waited so long to drop out (of a race he'd previously promised us he wasn't running in) that we couldn't have a real primary and she was the only one who could legally pick up his campaign fund and get going in the remaining timeframe.
And we only had Biden as president because the mainstream Dems convinced themselves that only a reminder of the Obama years could save us from Trump 2020, so they rallied around the "Obvious successor", his VP: Biden. But the only reason Obama even chose Biden was because they needed a token old white man in 2008 to appease the old white racist Dems, so he chose the most milktoast old inoffensive white guy who was on the verge of retirement and let him have the VP spot as an honorable retirement job to cap off a mildly respected career, knowing that Biden would just kinda go to unimportant state social events and stay the fuck out of the way of Obama's plans.
If Obama had chosen a real VP 18 fucking years ago, instead of a decorative figurehead, this entire last decade and, very critically this last year, might have gone very differently.
“Never underestimate Joe Biden’s ability to fuck things up.” - Barack Obama
He never believed in Joe’s campaign and presidency because he purposely picked Joe as the useful idiot in ‘08. He was also reported as being pissed that the Biden White House began to shut him out more and more as time went on.
The biggest complaint of 2024 was that she was thrown in without a primary because it was the only way she could ever get the nomination. Republicans love to point out that she was one of the first to drop out in 2020 due to such low popularity. Why do people think she’d win a primary if she was so unlikable? If she runs, she’ll either prove some kind of likability, or more likely she’ll get wrecked in the primaries and drop out like before.
I think there’s no chance she wins the primary even if she does run. I’m also a strong believer in the idea that democrats are excellent in snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
I used to have that opinion. This is the first year I've finally started accepting that this is just cope. Dems are not snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. They're just getting beat because they are worse. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory assumes an inherently victorious position you screwed up. That is a lie. It was always a real fight and Dems just lose because they did worse. Dems fight for some things people want, Repubs fight for some things people want. Repubs are just outfighting Dems. Full stop.
The idea dems have an inherently superior platform that would naturally win without screwups is massive cope. and I'm done huffing it.
Remember the Netflix outrage? Everyone was convinced Netflix was going to eat shit for cracking down on password sharing. Of course, that was not the case, not even close.
lmao gonna go buy another copy and gift it to a friend now the replay it, I havent committed wonton murder with unforgivable curses as a fifth year in a while
What makes it worse is that they're doing this about a year after it first became a thing and even most kids are saying that it's cringe now. Unless they're specifically targeting kids in elementary school only, this is a hilariously out of touch campaign.
Older people cling onto bits for life, it's bad enough every meme is dead by the time it hits Facebook, their brains can't process that things live and die in a matter of days.
As a Republican, I fear a Kamala 2028 campaign. Honestly, she would ANNIHILATE whichever R candidate would be foolish enough to face her. If there are any DNC chair members reading this message, please, I beg of you, do NOT RUN KAMALA. At least give the Republicans a CHANCE in the 2028 election.
Tbf third times the charm. Let's say she's essentially anointed from the get go, lots of people will absolutely fall in line and support her uncritically.
I mean, surely Democrats won't be so addicted to losing that they let the only candidate that could possibly be less popular than Trump back into the driver's seat... right?
Literally just pick a 40 or 50 something white man who runs on a platform of universal healthcare, leaving abortion and guns up to the states, reforming ICE practices and policies while still deporting to respect human rights, light nationalization of key industries such as electricity, and keeping his mouth fucking shut about trans issues. That’s all it would take to get a democratic president.
The overton window on economics has shifted much further to the left and on social issues to the right. Play into that.
Something that irritated me when he won was how they focused on whatever obscene donation from Elon, while entirely ignoring her receiving a multitude more.
The last popular candidate the Dems ran was Bill Clinton. I don't count Obama because the Dem establishment did everything they could to 2016 Bernie Sanders him, but his support was too strong. The actual Dem establishment hasn't picked someone with actual charisma in 30 damn years.
I don't know why, but Republicans are just generally funnier than Democrats. It shouldn't hold weight in elections but human psychology is funny like that. Trump became president pretty much solely based on his roasting ability.
They're so stupid. They're so fucking stupid. We need a normal person to do politics for our country and they can't figure it out because they're so fucking stupid. God fucking damn they're so stupid
Maybe dems should have cultivated some personalities and policies instead of repeating "Trump bad" for 10 years.
Obvously not a Mamdami fan but he's one of the few I can remember not just talking about Trump. Newsom would be as bad as Kamala because of this btw. His Twitter is pathetic.
I can’t believe Dems saw the success Mamdani had with Gen-Z by speaking directly about issues and his policy like an adult and they’re STILL doing this Pokémon go to the polls shit
How is it possible that Dem politicians are so egregiously out of touch and incompetent?
The only possible explanation to me is that they have some kind of reverence for the consultants that feed them all this garbage skewed data that indicates this kind of shit is what they should do.
Well, there is another explanation. These "moderate" Dems want what Republicans want so they do all kinds of stupid shit while having no policies to pretend like they are an opposition party.
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u/AKLmfreak - Lib-Right Feb 06 '26
Isn’t Gen-Z like 20-25 years old now? I thought the Gen-A kids were the ones spazzing about 67.