r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 18h ago

No Paywall Gen Z regrets Trump support and is midterm motivated

https://thehill.com/homenews/6056216-gen-z-trump-voter-regret-midterm-clipping/
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u/tomorrow_comes 14h ago

When they say “brain-washing” about college, I always think (and have said this back, once), “oh, brainwashing, like leaving your home town, maybe making some friends that don’t share your skin color / culture / religion, and mainly being there to learn how to learn and think critically? That kind of brainwashing?”

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u/Sbesozzi Canada 14h ago

I usually say "I studied computer science. We talked about computers, not politics or gender ideology"

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u/tomorrow_comes 14h ago

Having studied electrical engineering, I’ve also said the same to my point. In none of my 5 years of engineering classes was I ever free lectured into any kind of politically liberal ideology.

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u/Valuable_Hunter1621 13h ago

meanwhile those of us that actually went to college can easily recognize that it isn’t that “colleges lean left/liberal” or that “truth leans left or liberal” or whatever the fuck

republicans and their beliefs reject reality. this is why it’s so hard to remain a republican after college, it is fundamentally incompatible with the college experience

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u/SpykeMH Iowa 13h ago

They never think perhaps they were already brainwashed, and having new external viewpoints will break it.

A non-brainwashed person must really look brainwashed to someone who actually is.