The youth are generally more progressive. Recently, every demographic has displayed an increase in right-wing participation. This isn't so much of an age issue as it is a reactionary issue to educational and economic shortcomings from the last couple decades. Many right-wing populists are just really good at reaching people with distorted messaging, unfortunately.
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2026
55 points (98.2% liked)
World News
1962 readers
1180 users here now
Rules:
Be a decent person.
No racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, zionism/nazism, and so on.
Other Great Communities:
Rules
Be excellent to each other
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Perhaps generally, but last week a report came out indicating 1 in 3 male Gen Z'ers believe women should obey their husbands.
This fits with the article's data of young people radicalizing towards the left and the right in equal measure.
A question that doesn't distinguish between the centre-right and the far left will show "radicalization without the average changing" as "the far right growing".
I'm sure corporate and state media are choosing to report on growing support for the far right but not on growing support for the far left for perfectly normal reasons.
Yes, the problem with the rise in fascism is directly caused by neo-liberalism not working for most people.
People generally aren't smart enough to recognize there are more than 2 sides to every problem, so they think the only other option is the opposition.
Since many people won't read the article: it shows that there is no significant difference between the growth of the far left and the growth of the far right among young voters.
Young people are radicalizing, but the average remains to the left of older people's average. There are many young people are moving right, but there as many young people moving right too.
You mean that there are as many young people moving left too, right?
Slightly more.
People are polarising to either extreme, centrism is thankfully dying.
I was refering to the tautology in their last sentence, unless I missed something.
No its just a misunderstanding. Its ops right but your left because you're facing each other 👍