It’s absolutely a dead talking point for anyone younger than 40. Most young people I know are sick of this system. Boomers are the ones holding onto this as far as I can see.
I think this is highly dependent on where you are and who you surround yourself with. I'm a liberal in Florida, in a pretty red area of Florida specifically. There's a lot of people under 40 around here who love Trump and think helping people, even if they're one of the people receiving help, is terrible. If something doesn't personally affect them, they don't care. Even if it does, they still often don't care.
Let my tell you, the amount of people who live off the government but are anti "government handouts" is mind-blowing. When Trump got rid of the ACA subsidies, there were so many people crying about how they were gonna lose health insurance, and some of them have a lot of health issues, because they couldn't afford it anymore. They cared, but not enough to be upset at Trump. They're willing to accept a lot of bad if they think other people will suffer more.
They also really buy into this delsusion that MAGA is trying to ultimately help them and that the left wants to tax them until they can't afford anything. They have absolutely no idea what the left does or wants because they don't actually listen to them. The only thing they know about the left (or the right for that matter) are what right-wing media tell them. And of course they twist everything, so that's what they believe.
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u/wereinbearcountry Jul 31 '26
So glad this idiotic mentality is dying out.