Fair Observer: The Democratic Party’s Disdain for Youth Will Have Consequences
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UPDATED: Friday, November 28, 2025 09:47
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The Democratic Party’s failure to change course over policies has increasingly isolated younger voters. The Party’s elites dismiss youth-led movements while also showing little accountability for past policy failures, demonstrating an unwillingness to let go of the status quo. This alienation of the younger generation will no doubt drive more voters away from the Democratic Party.
https://www.fairobserver.com/politics/the-democratic-partys-disdain-fo
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The Democratic Party has a youth problem — and not in the way leadership may think. It’s not that young voters are apathetic or naïve. It’s rather that the Democratic Party and its older voters treat its young voters with condescension and, occasionally, outright contempt. That disdain is driving away and disillusioning an entire generation whose support they cannot afford to lose.
If the Democratic Party keeps treating the younger generation this way, young voters won’t just stay home: they’ll start building a political future that leaves the party behind, or even opt out of civic life entirely. And when that happens, it won’t be because they decided to abandon the Democrats. It will be because the Democrats abandoned them first.
Democrats sneer at young people’s priorities
We’ve seen it repeatedly: the moment young people organize around an issue — especially one that challenges entrenched US policy — they are told they “don’t understand political complexities” or that they’re letting emotions override reason. Take Gaza, for instance: for much of this generation, watching US support for Israel’s destruction of Gaza and its civilians has been a defining political moment.
In the wake of the US government’s inaction, young people have done exactly what engaged citizens have been instructed to do. They’ve organized, debated, protested and demanded that their government live up to its stated values. According to the Crowd Counting Consortium at Harvard, there have been several thousand days of pro-Palestinian protest activity. Students have made demands for policies such as divestment or institutional support for Palestinian academic freedom. The protests were overwhelmingly peaceful.
Yet, instead of listening, older Democratic leaders and voters dismiss their outrage as naïve, misplaced or misinformed, forgetting that civic engagement is supposed to be a democratic value, not a liability. This phenomenon is omnipresent in both news media, statements from elected leaders and even Beltway conversations. These are political conversations that happen among policymakers within the “Capital Beltway,” the area inside Interstate 495 in Washington, DC.
American journalist and political commentator Nicholas Kristof’s op-ed for the New York Times is a perfect example of this subtle dismissal of young voters. While Kristof encourages activism from students, he implies that the approach taken has been performative, not meaningful. He even suggests his own purportedly more serious alternatives. Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi even went so far as to state that youth protestors are victims of Russian propaganda. And, memorably, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) rejected pro-Palestinian delegates’ efforts to get a Palestinian American speaker on the main stage at the Democratic National Convention.
Then, when young people abstained from voting or supported independents in 2024, they were pilloried as disloyal, unserious and reckless. The message is clear: youth organizing is only welcome when it aligns neatly with the status quo. Anything else is lazily dismissed or treated as a threat to be managed, rather than a perspective with which to engage.
The Democratic Party is rife with no-accountability culture and inaction
But the political establishment doesn’t stop at mocking young people’s values and intelligence. The Democratic Party also models a political culture where there are no consequences to Democratic actions, no matter how damaging their policies might be. For instance, theNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
MediaBiasFactCheck on Fair Observer: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/fair-observer/
Left-Center Bias, though quite a bit leaning toward straight Left Bias according to the graph. (Apparently they don't round up on these judgements).
It should also be noted that Fair Observer's slogan appears to be "Independence, Diversity, Debate", so do with that information what you will.
Personally, I don't agree with many of the views expressed by the above individual, and just by the tone of this article I think it is a pretty safe bet that I would likely disagree with most things they say and think on that website as a whole. But they're not wrong about the kids, in-general, even if they're only really talking about losing the rich, white college "educated" liberals here. They know they've got enough of a problem in their own house right now to even bother thinking about why the rest of the kids are going to be lost to the Democratic Party, or those who already have been as well.
But I have to give anybody even bothering to try to figure out why everyone hates Democrats. Most of you all seem to just hate on Trump every day and not worry about more important things like having any chance at all of winning future elections by offering something, anything that will make you liked again. And everybody has been lied to for so long now that even when you do that, most people just aren't going to believe you anyhow.
Right now?
If nothing were to change between now and election day, all anybody is going to remember is that things got horrible for everyone for years under Joe Biden* and even though it got a little worse under Trump, at least the bleeding stopped. And everybody knows that there are going to be at least half a BILLION dollars worth of campaign ads reminding us how there were near zero border crossings in the last 2 years, and explaning succinctly what the difference between 9% interest and 3% interest means in the long run. (Hey... we didn't get it down to only 2%, but gosh darn it we tried. But here's where we were during the previous administration and here's some of the pain you avoided by voting for us and bringing it back down to only 3%).
And all of that is only if this so called American Comeback never manifests itself. If that happens, Republicans won't even need to spend a dime on advertising.
With where the Democratic Party is right now, ESPECIALLY among the youth who don't even drink because they can't afford to pay for a fucking beer, if that were to happen...
Democrats won't win again in my lifetime if that happens.
As I said in the Bessent thread last night, I'm pretty sure all this foreign investment is going to fuck us all in the end and we'll get a good 10 or 15 year taste of the Clinton comeback that was fueld by ruining our long-term strength as a nation, so savor that while it lasts if we do see a temporary renessance in American dominance. I have no doubt that it will be fairly short-lived and we'll be right back here again when the bill comes.
But back to the point...
If the US economy explodes next spring/summer and leads to 10 or 15 years of a post-Clintonesque, temporary and ultimately illusory bump in our standard of living? A real good portion of GenZ is going to vote Repbulican for the rest of their lives, dying in their 80's or 90's one day with FOX News on the boob tube. I'm not saying that they're right to do so, because who knows where politics is 20 years from now. I'm just saying that they're not going to forget any of that. They're going to spend the rest of their lives remembering how good it was when they were their physical best in their youth.
That wouldn't have to keep happening in perpetuity if either side could actually, yanno... IMPROVE our standard of living! Gosh. What a novel concept. Not just another expensive Payday loan to add to the donation basket. Not just the short term but in the long-t
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It might be heartening to hear Libtards are drifting Right, repelled by Democrats.
However...
I have been hearing alarming reports about polling directed towards 2028, and that a growing percentage of voters are choosing to find a Socialist Communist candidate to vote for. A Cult of Personality. These are also repelled by Democrats, but their Libtard indoctrination won't let them escape delusion.
We might hope that Mohran Mamdummi rapidly enacts his disastrous policies so that the younguns can see the failures - but that might presuppose they have critical thinking skills, which they have already proven deficient or defective.
Generally, I think it best for The Trump to push his most outrageous and controversial policies in his first year, for to do so in the second year - and without time for fruition - could negatively affect the midterms. The voring electorate is lousy at seeing how the 4D Chess works out.
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