Young Trump Voters Fume He ‘Betrayed’ Them by Launching His War

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cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/42830295 [https://lemmings.world/post/42830295] > Archive link [https://archive.is/submit/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedailybeast.com%2Fyoung-donald-trump-voters-fume-he-betrayed-them-by-launching-his-iran-war%2F]

The worst part about all this is the fact that they are young. What kind of hate fueled, evil upbringing did they receive that would cause them to think voting for trump was ever a good idea?

We should be doing more to try and help the younger generation see the light before they become older, angrier and set in their ways.

Do we have a support com for ex-right wingers?

I don’t think it was necessarily hate-fueled. It was Influencers and other paid actors making it seem like an ok thing to do, and to stick it to the establishment/elites (misidentified as left, instead of ultra rich), and Dems as evil as GOP. There is a reason that recruitment age for military is 18yo - it is the age where people know alot but understand less and can more easily be influenced. As the first gen fully raised in an online world, they didn’t stand a chance of knowing how to combat the algorithms. Not any more than their grandparents knew how to battle the new ‘TV ads’. Outside the USA, much of American thought is understood as weird and driven by state propaganda - a different version of North Korea.
A little off point but isn’t Fox “News” just a state propaganda channel?
It only looks that way right now because the state is fully aligned with oligarchy (one could argue this isn’t new, but how blatant it has become in unquestionable). Fox News is as it has always been, turning the masses on one another for the benefit of the wealthy.