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sboatcar

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5. I think its a lot of our leaders not taking a strong enough stance

Reply to Omnipresent (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 12, 2026, 01:02 PM

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You look at politicians like Tim Walz, Jacob Frey, Josh Shapiro, and Gavin Newsom, and they're all standing up and saying what needs to be said. We need MORE of our people in congress and the senate to start doing the same. They're losing the young people because they're not standing up for them.

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Young Americans are increasingly rejecting the Democratic and Republican parties, a new poll shows [View all] dalton99a Monday OP

These clowns live in a binary click-bait world bucolic_frolic Monday #1

Gen Z had a higher % of Dems than Millennials or Gen X in the poll, and Gen Z had the lowest Rethug % of any cohort Celerity Monday #14

From this, we would need to find out why the Democratic is turning them off. Omnipresent Monday #2

perhaps this should be taken up in "the way forward" RockCreek Monday #4

I think its a lot of our leaders not taking a strong enough stance sboatcar Monday #5

Many in the Party (and frankly on sites like DU) do not want to confront these reasons... Moostache Monday #6

This generation has been raised KLK1972 Monday #10

They rather doom scroll then to tun into whats happening Historic NY Monday #3

Perhaps they're "doom-scrolling" because they already figured it out. AloeVera Monday #7

Not surprised Alansworld Monday #8

Just speaking about my 2 sons (19&24) JT45242 Monday #9

I would argue that they ard not even asking for perfection RockCreek Monday #11

Sometimes it is hard to know where to begin in explaining this, but we have to earn the trust of these voters. everyonematters Monday #12

When this is reflected in elections etc., I'll believe it. It's one thing to say that in betw elections, it's.. themaguffin Monday #13