A favorable comparison to Huey Long? I feel that we can’t really talk about how Gen Z feels about politics/Trump without also reconciling the last 10-15 years of social studies/civics education being cut back/diminished/deprioritized.
Alternatively, young people have done their own research and no longer rely on the meta narratives fed to us by the mainstream? This is such a NYT coded statement, that if you disagree with someone it’s because that person is unintelligent. In reality it’s because we interpret the data differently. I know the things that Long did, my point was that he improved the lives of the citizens of his state and channeled populism in a productive way, so I don’t care.
Hi! I certainly didn’t say unintelligent or mean to imply a lack of intellect on the part of anyone quoted in this article. I simply fear that the push, evident in my lifetime, away from robust civics and social studies centered education on the primary and secondary level is having widespread consequences in how Gen Z approaches politics.
Unintelligent/uninformed/uneducated, they all come back to the idea that if people don’t have the same beliefs as the generation before them it’s a failing of the system. I had the exact same civics education, if not better, that my parents had. The problem isn’t the way the system works at educating (although it did fail many other people I knew growing up, but for other reasons) it’s that the Internet has given us access to more information than ever before, and we are utilizing it to learn more about things without the preferred outlook those in charge would want us to. This is a benefit and a curse, some people actually do their due diligence but many just fall to propaganda, but you can’t just put the genie back in the bottle so to speak. My recommendation to those who are concerned would actually be to work to make new media accounts sharing your ideas with the younger generation, on YouTube, Twitter, Spotify, TikTok/Instagram, since these are the platforms young people engage with most. Also AI LLMs will likely have an effect on the youngest gen Z cohort and gen alpha which is unpredictable at this stage but analogous.
Alternatively, young people have done their own research and no longer rely on the meta narratives fed to us by the mainstream? This is such a NYT coded statement, that if you disagree with someone it’s because that person is unintelligent. In reality it’s because we interpret the data differently. I know the things that Long did, my point was that he improved the lives of the citizens of his state and channeled populism in a productive way, so I don’t care.
A favorable comparison to Huey Long? I feel that we can’t really talk about how Gen Z feels about politics/Trump without also reconciling the last 10-15 years of social studies/civics education being cut back/diminished/deprioritized.
Alternatively, young people have done their own research and no longer rely on the meta narratives fed to us by the mainstream? This is such a NYT coded statement, that if you disagree with someone it’s because that person is unintelligent. In reality it’s because we interpret the data differently. I know the things that Long did, my point was that he improved the lives of the citizens of his state and channeled populism in a productive way, so I don’t care.
Hi! I certainly didn’t say unintelligent or mean to imply a lack of intellect on the part of anyone quoted in this article. I simply fear that the push, evident in my lifetime, away from robust civics and social studies centered education on the primary and secondary level is having widespread consequences in how Gen Z approaches politics.
Unintelligent/uninformed/uneducated, they all come back to the idea that if people don’t have the same beliefs as the generation before them it’s a failing of the system. I had the exact same civics education, if not better, that my parents had. The problem isn’t the way the system works at educating (although it did fail many other people I knew growing up, but for other reasons) it’s that the Internet has given us access to more information than ever before, and we are utilizing it to learn more about things without the preferred outlook those in charge would want us to. This is a benefit and a curse, some people actually do their due diligence but many just fall to propaganda, but you can’t just put the genie back in the bottle so to speak. My recommendation to those who are concerned would actually be to work to make new media accounts sharing your ideas with the younger generation, on YouTube, Twitter, Spotify, TikTok/Instagram, since these are the platforms young people engage with most. Also AI LLMs will likely have an effect on the youngest gen Z cohort and gen alpha which is unpredictable at this stage but analogous.
Alternatively, young people have done their own research and no longer rely on the meta narratives fed to us by the mainstream? This is such a NYT coded statement, that if you disagree with someone it’s because that person is unintelligent. In reality it’s because we interpret the data differently. I know the things that Long did, my point was that he improved the lives of the citizens of his state and channeled populism in a productive way, so I don’t care.