Four-times-indicted former president Donald Trump has been successfully selling white Christian nostalgia, racism and xenophobia to his base. However, the Public Religion Research Institute’s massive poll of 6,616 participants suggests that what works with his base might pose an insurmountable problem with Gen Z teens and Gen Z adults (who are younger than 25).

Demographically, this cohort of voters bears little resemblance to Trump’s older, whiter, more religious followers. “In addition to being the most racially and ethnically diverse generation in our nation’s history, Gen Z adults also identify as LGBTQ at much higher rates than older Americans,” the PRRI poll found. “Like millennials, Gen Zers are also less likely than older generations to affiliate with an established religion.”

Those characteristics suggest Gen Z will favor a progressive message that incorporates diversity and opposes government imposition of religious views. Indeed, “Gen Z adults (21%) are less likely than all generational groups except millennials (21%) to identify as Republican.” Though 36 percent of Gen Z adults identify as Democrats, their teenage counterparts are more likely to be independents (51 percent) than older generations.

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    10 months ago

    I’ve seen nature at work, cruel and harsh. Predators eating prey alive, no mercy, no justice. Where might makes right, as there is no human law to intercede. Are those the natural laws you’re referring to?

    Your other posts imply you view the world colored through a religious lens… Which is not a natural view. Supernatural, possibly, but anything but natural.

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      those natural laws merely teach the fact that everyone must recognise that there are insurmountable opponents that must be protected against, the natural law more also refers to natural processes as well as logical processing, on top of this, a religious view of the world is a natural one, the natural world’s logic is observable and to describe it as a laymen’s work would be at the very least a grave insult

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        Please cite, detail, or otherwise reference these natural laws to which you keep referring to.

        Otherwise, I believe they’re all in your head, and you’re not arguing in good faith.

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          i have many times, observe them within the world already instead of asking things that cant be taught, to be taught, it wont achieve anything, take a notepad and walk through a forest and you will gain insights with a newfound clear mindset, because society is fake and it’s laws are made up in comparison to the unchanging and eternal glory of the natural law :)

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            10 months ago

            Your views and beliefs are as pungent as a fifty five gallon drum of pig manure left in the summer sun for a week.

            I’d be happy to leave them with you, except for your stated desire to force them upon others. May you never succeed.

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        So, basically you are telling us that we should prepare ourselves for the invasion of hell, so we turn back the tides, conquer that cursed landscape with the power of the atom or something greater, turn the demons into batteries to fuel our future civilization and then knock at sky daddy’s heavenly gates and get rid of the immense threat he and and his angels pose to the safety of humanity, because nature teach us to defend ourselves?

        Alright, time to show this god why it was a bad idea to not let us eat also from the tree of life and for ruining us after destroying the tower of Babel.

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          9 months ago

          i’m not a christian but nice try, rant harder when you actually know what i’m talking about instead of assuming all religion is christian, no wonder very few coherent words come from you people