40% of women under 30 voted for Trump

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Anonymous wrote:Which issues attracted them to Trump?. I know plenty young women this age. Heard lots of talk about Gaza. Heard lots of talk about abortion. Heard no discussion whatsoever about transgenders.

What are the issues that attracted them to Trump?

Have a Gen Z DD and I honestly don't know if she voted for Trump, but here's the thing...it's not "one issue" and it's not that they were attracted to "Trump" the person. The DNC continues with denial denial denial. Below are my GenZ DD's views:

Perhaps not 100% stop but definitely reduce military spending (billions!) to Israel and other countries without accountability. Fix the many issues in the US first - put American citizens first.

Stop with the cultural/identity wars. She respects LGBTQ+ but seriously....rewriting/redoing movies and changing characters is getting ridiculous - if you want to be so inclusive create new stories, create new princesses. Don't go back and change things. Also she agreed that the whole gender identity education in schools is going too far and does not at all belong in elementary schools.

Not sure how she feels about deportation, but she does see schools overpopulated and resources stretched.

She does see the increase in crime, first hand! You know...the shoplifting/theft crimes that are not reported at all and therefore don't count in the statistics when DNC says crime is down, how convenient.

My Gen Z High School kid and her friends were rooting for Trump, for these same reasons, even though most of them can't vote yet. The abortion issue was not on the top of their mind. They're at MCPS (and no, not at Damascus or Poolesville or a W school). I know Montgomery County is solid blue but many people I know flipped and voted Republican this year.

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All three of my teens were hoping for a Trump win, and most of their friends were as well. Particularly the boys. It is now “cool” to be a Trump supporter- again, especially among the boys. We live in a blue area of a swing state, UMC suburban public school. I posted about this a few weeks ago on another thread and a few moms has similar stories.

Dems should take note.

My kid is a senior in college with a very large academic and social circle... a lot of Trump supporters.

College students self select into groups also especially in large schools. The frat bro experience and circle will be much different than a theater kid or minorities that stick to cultural groups.

No, they're not a frat bro. They have a very diverse academic and social circle from many different cultures. You may not want to believe it but lots of Trump supporters.

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Anonymous wrote:They haven’t experienced much sexism in the workplace, yet.

Nor have I and I’m 52.
Most women really aren’t as easily triggered as those who claim to speak for us are.

This. I'm flattered when a male co-worker tells me my hair looks nice or my outfit is nice. Those who think that's negative in any way really do need to get a life.

I find it inappropriate.

OMG - I say the same thing to my male coworkers - even guys in elevators...you look sharp today, love that shirt, etc.

Thinking something as benign as that to be inappropriate is what is called "radical feminism" which is a joke. If that is the DNC base then the red wave will continue because that's nuts.

I find it inappropriate to. There's no need to comment on anyone's physical appearance in the workplace.
And if people vote ored for Trump so they could feel flattered by their coworkers complimenting their outfits we e got bigger problems than I thought.

Wow, just wow. Now I know what people mean when we as a nation were on the wrong track. No wonder Trump won. FWIW - I voted for Harris.

But seriously, paying a compliment to people on how they look...generic and benign complimentary comments...is f*ing NORMAL. Damn...I'm mad at you for making me use f*ing in one of my posts because I rarely do so.

Normal compliments...you look nice today, your hair looks nice, I love that color on you, you look sharp, etc.

Not Normal compliment....Wowzer, damn you look good today in those tight jeans.

I often tell the receptionist of my office building that she looks nice.

Signed Harris voter who is 50+ professional working female...but really seriously regretting that vote because of those who think that benign compliments are inappropriate.

I’m a 50+ Harris voter who finds it extremely disheartening that people finally feel like they have a voice to ask for something - please don’t focus on my looks in a business setting, I’d like to be addressed this way - is just outright dismissed. What’s the harm in trying to listen to and accommodate people with these very minor requests?

But, someone told me on DCUM that empathy was weaponized, that people were obsessed with it. Truly sad. Honestly that is how we got to this place since Trump is the least empathetic politician we’ve had in the history of this country.

You don't get it. Nobody...not ever...has told me this. Now..if a coworker actually told me, a female, that my saying her hair looked nice today, was offensive or made her feel uncomfortable, then sure I wouldn't dismiss it and I would try hard not to give her any compliments. But personally I enjoy receiving compliments. It's human nature and normal!!

The DNC have all lost their f*ing common sense. Damn, you made me use f*ing again.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't realize Biden had put a law in place mandating books and movies be redone and woke!

I thought the capitalist market made what people were willing to buy.

Or, Hollywood, the media, national leaders like the VPOTUS, publicly-funded news like NPR, left-leaning corporate leaders like Besos, gates, Mark Cuban, the Obama’s, and all sorts of leftist “influencers,” can all team up together to push “woke.”

I could almost borrow a phrase from Hillary Rodham Clinton, and call it “a vast, left-wing, conspiracy,” but, unlike Hillary: I am no conspiracy theorist.

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Anonymous wrote:They haven’t experienced much sexism in the workplace, yet.

Nor have I and I’m 52.
Most women really aren’t as easily triggered as those who claim to speak for us are.

This. I'm flattered when a male co-worked tells me I my hair looks nice or my outfit is nice. Those who think that's negative is any way really do need to get a life.

I find it inappropriate.

But your cats love you. Until you die alone, and they start to eat your eyeballs.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't realize Biden had put a law in place mandating books and movies be redone and woke!

I thought the capitalist market made what people were willing to buy.

Or, Hollywood, the media, national leaders like the VPOTUS, publicly-funded news like NPR, left-leaning corporate leaders like Besos, gates, Mark Cuban, the Obama’s, and all sorts of leftist “influencers,” can all team up together to push “woke.”

I could almost borrow a phrase from Hillary Rodham Clinton, and call it “a vast, left-wing, conspiracy,” but, unlike Hillary: I am no conspiracy theorist.

Oh look: Kamala preaching at us to “stay woke:”

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Anonymous wrote:For the youngest, COVID policy was undoubtedly a factor. Many of these kids had their high school and/or college experience almost entirely ruined. They saw who was pushing to drag restrictions on and on and on, and it definitely wasn’t the Republicans.

Along with the other factors mentioned already.

And for the many who did not have a “college experience,” they may have found it more difficult to get jobs or enter trades programs.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't realize Biden had put a law in place mandating books and movies be redone and woke!

I thought the capitalist market made what people were willing to buy.

It’s actually not a capitalist response to the market. It’s pushed on corporations by financing companies. It's driven from the top down.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmcgowan/2023/06/05/conservative-outrage-over-esg-and-dei-fueled-by-2017-blackrock-ceo-video/

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Palestine.

How many times do you need to be told? We young people said it over and over and over: we will NOT vote for anyone who does not support Palestine and stopping the genocide of its people.

You guys decided to FA and now you're in the FO of what we said.

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Anonymous wrote:They haven’t experienced much sexism in the workplace, yet.

Nor have I and I’m 52.
Most women really aren’t as easily triggered as those who claim to speak for us are.

This. I'm flattered when a male co-worker tells me my hair looks nice or my outfit is nice. Those who think that's negative in any way really do need to get a life.

I find it inappropriate.

OMG - I say the same thing to my male coworkers - even guys in elevators...you look sharp today, love that shirt, etc.

Thinking something as benign as that to be inappropriate is what is called "radical feminism" which is a joke. If that is the DNC base then the red wave will continue because that's nuts.

I find it inappropriate to. There's no need to comment on anyone's physical appearance in the workplace.
And if people vote ored for Trump so they could feel flattered by their coworkers complimenting their outfits we e got bigger problems than I thought.

Wow, just wow. Now I know what people mean when we as a nation were on the wrong track. No wonder Trump won. FWIW - I voted for Harris.

But seriously, paying a compliment to people on how they look...generic and benign complimentary comments...is f*ing NORMAL. Damn...I'm mad at you for making me use f*ing in one of my posts because I rarely do so.

Normal compliments...you look nice today, your hair looks nice, I love that color on you, you look sharp, etc.

Not Normal compliment....Wowzer, damn you look good today in those tight jeans.

I often tell the receptionist of my office building that she looks nice.

Signed Harris voter who is 50+ professional working female...but really seriously regretting that vote because of those who think that benign compliments are inappropriate.

I’m a 50+ Harris voter who finds it extremely disheartening that people finally feel like they have a voice to ask for something - please don’t focus on my looks in a business setting, I’d like to be addressed this way - is just outright dismissed. What’s the harm in trying to listen to and accommodate people with these very minor requests?

But, someone told me on DCUM that empathy was weaponized, that people were obsessed with it. Truly sad. Honestly that is how we got to this place since Trump is the least empathetic politician we’ve had in the history of this country.

You don't get it. Nobody...not ever...has told me this. Now..if a coworker actually told me, a female, that my saying her hair looked nice today, was offensive or made her feel uncomfortable, then sure I wouldn't dismiss it and I would try hard not to give her any compliments. But personally I enjoy receiving compliments. It's human nature and normal!!

The DNC have all lost their f*ing common sense. Damn, you made me use f*ing again.

Society’s chorus has been saying this, not individuals. Geez, my DH got the memo a decade ago. If a good guy skips up, it’s a lot different than if some horrible guy who sees women as sex objects does. It’s like men are telling on themselves. No, men who have not belittled women and feel threatened by their very existence in the workplace are not bothered by this simple courtesy.

Leave it to Trumpster to focus so much attention on people asking for a slight alteration in basic kindness. Resist change at your own peril.

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Anonymous wrote:Which issues attracted them to Trump?. I know plenty young women this age. Heard lots of talk about Gaza. Heard lots of talk about abortion. Heard no discussion whatsoever about transgenders.

What are the issues that attracted them to Trump?

Have a Gen Z DD and I honestly don't know if she voted for Trump, but here's the thing...it's not "one issue" and it's not that they were attracted to "Trump" the person. The DNC continues with denial denial denial. Below are my GenZ DD's views:

Perhaps not 100% stop but definitely reduce military spending (billions!) to Israel and other countries without accountability. Fix the many issues in the US first - put American citizens first.

Stop with the cultural/identity wars. She respects LGBTQ+ but seriously....rewriting/redoing movies and changing characters is getting ridiculous - if you want to be so inclusive create new stories, create new princesses. Don't go back and change things. Also she agreed that the whole gender identity education in schools is going too far and does not at all belong in elementary schools.

Not sure how she feels about deportation, but she does see schools overpopulated and resources stretched.

She does see the increase in crime, first hand! You know...the shoplifting/theft crimes that are not reported at all and therefore don't count in the statistics when DNC says crime is down, how convenient.

On her first point, Donald Trump is probably the worst person to put in charge if she wants to stop spending with Israel.

Democrats are not redoing TV shows and movies. That would be TV networks. If there's not an audience for it, they would stop doing it. But I do agree that the over policing of everything by liberals is a bit much.... The pronoun thing is a big one

Are you saying most of the entertainment industry is NOT Democrats?! Have you ever watched one of their award shows

People with conservative views are basically not allowed to speak up or they are ostrasized.

This +1000000.....when my DD was in HS the BLM movement started. All of a sudden there was peer pressure to make your instagram profile a solid black square. She didn't do that and thought the peer pressure to do so was wrong.

My child was in elementary school in FCPS at that time. The name of the school is Kent Gardens, in the McLean school pyramid.

He was strongly encouraged to make his semester art project for square art, on the theme of:

- Black Lives Matter.

Progressives need to stop pretending none of this happened. It happened.

You lose credibility when you try to gaslight people, and now we are stuck with Trump again.

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Anonymous wrote:Which issues attracted them to Trump?. I know plenty young women this age. Heard lots of talk about Gaza. Heard lots of talk about abortion. Heard no discussion whatsoever about transgenders.

What are the issues that attracted them to Trump?

Have a Gen Z DD and I honestly don't know if she voted for Trump, but here's the thing...it's not "one issue" and it's not that they were attracted to "Trump" the person. The DNC continues with denial denial denial. Below are my GenZ DD's views:

Perhaps not 100% stop but definitely reduce military spending (billions!) to Israel and other countries without accountability. Fix the many issues in the US first - put American citizens first.

Stop with the cultural/identity wars. She respects LGBTQ+ but seriously....rewriting/redoing movies and changing characters is getting ridiculous - if you want to be so inclusive create new stories, create new princesses. Don't go back and change things. Also she agreed that the whole gender identity education in schools is going too far and does not at all belong in elementary schools.

Not sure how she feels about deportation, but she does see schools overpopulated and resources stretched.

She does see the increase in crime, first hand! You know...the shoplifting/theft crimes that are not reported at all and therefore don't count in the statistics when DNC says crime is down, how convenient.

My Gen Z High School kid and her friends were rooting for Trump, for these same reasons, even though most of them can't vote yet. The abortion issue was not on the top of their mind. They're at MCPS (and no, not at Damascus or Poolesville or a W school). I know Montgomery County is solid blue but many people I know flipped and voted Republican this year.

+1

All three of my teens were hoping for a Trump win, and most of their friends were as well. Particularly the boys. It is now “cool” to be a Trump supporter- again, especially among the boys. We live in a blue area of a swing state, UMC suburban public school. I posted about this a few weeks ago on another thread and a few moms has similar stories.

Dems should take note.

Teens always want to rebel. Like it or not, the right became the rebellious and the left the establishment.

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Anonymous wrote:Palestine.

How many times do you need to be told? We young people said it over and over and over: we will NOT vote for anyone who does not support Palestine and stopping the genocide of its people.

You guys decided to FA and now you're in the FO of what we said.

Respectfully, this isn't the primary issue young people voted for Trump.

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Anonymous wrote:They haven’t experienced much sexism in the workplace, yet.

Nor have I and I’m 52.
Most women really aren’t as easily triggered as those who claim to speak for us are.

This. I'm flattered when a male co-worker tells me my hair looks nice or my outfit is nice. Those who think that's negative in any way really do need to get a life.

I find it inappropriate.

OMG - I say the same thing to my male coworkers - even guys in elevators...you look sharp today, love that shirt, etc.

Thinking something as benign as that to be inappropriate is what is called "radical feminism" which is a joke. If that is the DNC base then the red wave will continue because that's nuts.

I find it inappropriate to. There's no need to comment on anyone's physical appearance in the workplace.
And if people vote ored for Trump so they could feel flattered by their coworkers complimenting their outfits we e got bigger problems than I thought.

Wow, just wow. Now I know what people mean when we as a nation were on the wrong track. No wonder Trump won. FWIW - I voted for Harris.

But seriously, paying a compliment to people on how they look...generic and benign complimentary comments...is f*ing NORMAL. Damn...I'm mad at you for making me use f*ing in one of my posts because I rarely do so.

Normal compliments...you look nice today, your hair looks nice, I love that color on you, you look sharp, etc.

Not Normal compliment....Wowzer, damn you look good today in those tight jeans.

I often tell the receptionist of my office building that she looks nice.

Signed Harris voter who is 50+ professional working female...but really seriously regretting that vote because of those who think that benign compliments are inappropriate.

I’m a 50+ Harris voter who finds it extremely disheartening that people finally feel like they have a voice to ask for something - please don’t focus on my looks in a business setting, I’d like to be addressed this way - is just outright dismissed. What’s the harm in trying to listen to and accommodate people with these very minor requests?

But, someone told me on DCUM that empathy was weaponized, that people were obsessed with it. Truly sad. Honestly that is how we got to this place since Trump is the least empathetic politician we’ve had in the history of this country.

You don't get it. Nobody...not ever...has told me this. Now..if a coworker actually told me, a female, that my saying her hair looked nice today, was offensive or made her feel uncomfortable, then sure I wouldn't dismiss it and I would try hard not to give her any compliments. But personally I enjoy receiving compliments. It's human nature and normal!!

The DNC have all lost their f*ing common sense. Damn, you made me use f*ing again.

^^and you make me regret having voted for Harris.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They haven’t experienced much sexism in the workplace, yet.

Nor have I and I’m 52.
Most women really aren’t as easily triggered as those who claim to speak for us are.

This. I'm flattered when a male co-worked tells me I my hair looks nice or my outfit is nice. Those who think that's negative is any way really do need to get a life.

I find it inappropriate.

But your cats love you. Until you die alone, and they start to eat your eyeballs.

You are literally proving the hot take on misogyny here. Threatened by a woman who has a different opinion and hurling insults rather than attempting to listen.

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Anonymous wrote:In 1994, it became somewhat "cool" for teenagers to be conservative.

This was the "Republican Revolution" election that brought Newt Gingrich into power.

In 1996, Clinton won reelection in a landslide by moving to the center.

Importantly, and unlike Biden, Clinton governed from the center too.