Posted on 12/07/2023 8:31:26 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Every election cycle, Republicans dutifully recite platitudes about winning "the youth vote" and bringing younger voters into the GOP fold.
And in every election, Republicans fail to deliver on that.
Part of the problem is that young voters tend to live in the here and now — they want their student loans forgiven, they want cheaper homes, they want everything handed to them on a silver platter, even as they vote for Democrats who have caused most of the problems they're complaining about. (Note: That by no means includes all young voters. Many of them are bright, well-informed, and understand the world as it is, not as the fairy tale the Democrats try to sell them.)
There's not a lot Republicans can do about that. Some lessons have to be learned the hard way. Stories abound of young Democrats getting smacked in the face by reality when they receive their first tax bill or shop for their first house. The party of free money loses its appeal when the free money they're giving away is yours.
It's an age-old problem, but that doesn't mean Republicans shouldn't try. Unfortunately, the plan they've come up with involves banning Gen Z's favorite social-media app, TikTok.
Yes, TikTok is dangerous, and it helps the Chi-coms spy on us via data mining and security breaches. Tech expert Kim Komando wrote:
TikTok is a national security threat. The Chinese-owned social media platform’s parent company ByteDance is based in Beijing and is required by Chinese law to give the government access to collected data.
TikTok collects data that includes search and browsing history, facial ID, voice prints, texts, location, and photos.
So just ban the thing already, right? Yeah, if you want to anger the 80 million active users in the U.S.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Then-President Trump tried to outright ban TikTok in 2020, but a federal judge shot down the effort.
"TikTok automatically captures vast swaths of information from its users, including Internet and other network activity information such as location data and browsing and search histories," Trump's executive order explained. "This data collection threatens to allow the Chinese Communist Party access to Americans’ personal and proprietary information — potentially allowing China to track the locations of Federal employees and contractors, build dossiers of personal information for blackmail, and conduct corporate espionage."
Trump is not alone. During Wednesday's Republican debate, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley said, "We really do need to ban TikTok once and for all, and let me tell you why. For every 30 minutes that someone watches TikTok every day they become 17% more antisemitic, more pro-Hamas based on doing that."
Then there's Vivek Ramaswamy, who tweeted earlier this year, "And yes, I’m very open to banning TikTok outright. In the meantime, we sit on our hands and do nothing as kids get addicted to it like it’s digital fentanyl." (FYI, the young hypocrite is campaigning on TikTok as we speak.)
Chris Christie said last month, "In my first week as president, we would ban TikTok."
GOOD LUCK WITH THAT
Ron DeSantis is the only GOP candidate with a more measured approach.
“I am inclined to not want TikTok in the United States,” he told The Wall Street Journal. “I think it’s creating a security vulnerability for us. I think they are mining a lot of data.”
However, he stopped short of an outright ban. “At the end of the day, I don’t want Big Brother to be getting into everybody’s apps,” DeSantis told the Journal. “It’s about vulnerabilities to our country.” The Florida governor banned the use of TikTok on government and school servers and devices last year.
Again, there are dangers to TikTok, but an outright ban right now, when it’s at the height of its popularity, would send Gen-Z voters into the streets, rending their garments and protesting the loss of their favorite mind-numbing entertainment platform. Is that really a winning message?
Drama I don’t need to hear.
“”””young voters tend to live in the here and now — they want their student loans forgiven, they want cheaper homes, they want everything handed to them on a silver platter””””
Previous young generations were more noble and thought about what was good for America rather than what they could take for themselves with the vote.
It’s embarrassing to see how far we have fallen.
The Gen Z kids/adults better get cooking on the peace marches, figure out Saul Alinsky and Cloward Piven real fast else it’s over.
PDS maybe also figure out a lot of tax money is going to illegals.
My generation is over for that stuff, here’s the baton. Quit playing games.
In 1972 for example, while the ‘60s and hippies, protests, the Vietnam war, the abortion battle, colleges exploding, riots, feminism, the Vietnam draft, etc were all in full flower, the under-30 vote went 52% for Richard Nixon and only 46% for the Democrats, the under 30 year olds were also the strongest supporters of the Vietnam war of all age groups.
Young voters have always been clueless; nothing has changed.
first hand account of a LEFTIST getting smacked in the face
a roommate who claimed to be a moderate but held LEFTIST positions
graduated from college and got his first job
when he opened his first paycheck and saw the net
he said what the hell is this?
to which i exclaimed welcome to the party, pal!
I remember a time when Socialism and Communism were considered bad ideologies. We were willing to pay the price to stop them. Now, not so much. Human nature reverts back to the norm.
If the previous generations hadn't shipped our manufacturing, technology, and money out of country, the current young generation might be holding down high paying jobs and paying off their student loans.
I know about the self righteous kids who got into debt for their degrees in "homosexuality in homo sapiens studies" and they get no sympathy from me. However, others did what they were supposed to do. They got training in tech jobs, only to have those jobs shipped out of the country. That wasn't their doing.
For “young” generations thinking more of the nation than themselves, see post 7.
Would you allow HitlerTok? StalinTok?
the under 30 year olds were also the strongest supporters of the Vietnam war of all age groups.
Sadly, they were being used as fodder in a for profit war their lying leaders had no intention of winning.
Absolutely not. Rich Baris is going over the latest Emerson poll right now. YOUNGER VOTERS ARE MOVING SHARPLY TOWARD TRUMP.
(Rs trail Trump by 7 points).
Baris: “We haven’t seen these young numbers for an R candidate since 1980 with Reagan.”
Trump currently down just 5 in the 18-30 group. This is shocking. Dems usually win this group by 20.
Baris isn’t JUST looking at Emerson. He has gone through ALL the polls showing this yout shift.
We were focused on something that can be measured to some degree, generations as they hit the voting age.
When it comes to which generations passed laws and brought down institutions it becomes greatly mixed and arguable, people are shocked to learn what a wrecking crew to America the 50-60-70-and 80-year-old leaders were in the courts and universities, congress and military, government and corporations during the 60s and 70s and going back every decade forever, like the 1840/50s immigration, there are eternal arguments trying to pin all that stuff down.
Look at this and look at new voting charts.
In 1968 the Democrats got 47%, in 1972 46%, 1976 51%, 1980 44%,1984 40%, 1988 47%, and then in 1992 it all went to heck.
“Would you allow ... StalinTok?”
We had that in the ‘30s and ‘40s. It was called “The New York Times.”
Back to the present, the young generation was literally betrayed by previous generations. They were told to get college degrees in technical skills, then had to settle for part time jobs saying "Fries with that?" because the tech jobs had been outsourced or filled with H1Bs.
We can agree on your point about the 50-60-70-and 80-year-old leaders screwing up things. It was they who gave China MFN in the late 90s and made it permanent in the early 2000s. Clinton, Gore and Biden signed off on these deals, but they had a lot of help from Bush, Newt, and the GOP.
The American people at that time had a choice, between companies who tried to stick with American labor and those who outsourced, and they voted with their wallets.
Now the American workers who were paying into our infrastructure and military have been replaced with Chinese workers who are paying into their infrastructure and military. Meanwhile, we had to raise the debt ceiling just to pay the interest on all of the debt we accumulated.
I'm aware of the self righteous kids who got their degrees in "homosexuality in homo sapiens studies", but many did what they should have done. They got training in tech jobs only to watch as those jobs were shipped out of the country.
Our kids can't even pay back their own debt, never mind the national debt. Is it any wonder they're so angry and have lost faith in the American dream?
All that is childish whining not reality, and a really pathetic loser’s imaginary view of history and life.
That was just a pathetic post from a self-absorbed negative person.
What part of my post was wrong?
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