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General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: mystery-ak on November 23, 2022, 06:39:30 pm
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November 22, 2022
The unstated reason why the red wave died
By Carole Hornsby Haynes
With the failure of the Republican Party to achieve a red wave in the midterm elections, many explanations — and accusations — are being bandied about. Blame is attributed to abortion, Trump endorsements, election integrity, and voter fraud, and the shifting of millions of votes to Democrats by Google, Facebook, and other tech monopolies.
Marketing expert Mark Beal from the Rutgers University School of Communication and Information believes there is still another factor in the election that is being overlooked: the impact of Generation Z. An expert on this group (born between 1997 and 2012), Beal says they will wield increasing influence on local, state, and national election outcomes.
This "purpose" generation is focused on environment issues and women's rights. Aggressively programmed in diversity, inclusion, and equity, they support "corporations, brands, organizations and individuals running for office that have the ability, influence and power to contribute to a better world, nation and community."
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/11/the_unstated_reason_why_the_red_wave_died.html
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November 22, 2022
The unstated reason why the red wave died
By Carole Hornsby Haynes
With the failure of the Republican Party to achieve a red wave in the midterm elections, many explanations — and accusations — are being bandied about. Blame is attributed to abortion, Trump endorsements, election integrity, and voter fraud, and the shifting of millions of votes to Democrats by Google, Facebook, and other tech monopolies.
Marketing expert Mark Beal from the Rutgers University School of Communication and Information believes there is still another factor in the election that is being overlooked: the impact of Generation Z. An expert on this group (born between 1997 and 2012), Beal says they will wield increasing influence on local, state, and national election outcomes.
This "purpose" generation is focused on environment issues and women's rights. Aggressively programmed in diversity, inclusion, and equity, they support "corporations, brands, organizations and individuals running for office that have the ability, influence and power to contribute to a better world, nation and community."
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/11/the_unstated_reason_why_the_red_wave_died.html
Yup...there are more of them than there are of us. And they are nuts! My college age nieces are a perfect example. They both hate the oil industry and are pretty much woke. A good friend of mine's niece who is going to UT Austin changed her name to "Leaf" and is non-binary...whatever the heck that is.
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Gotta call bs on this. Z's weren't that much of the electorate, and liberal Z's are going to tend to live in liberal districts that already have blue candidates.
Can't see them being the cause of more than a seat flip, maybe two.
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Gotta call bs on this. Z's weren't that much of the electorate, and liberal Z's are going to tend to live in liberal districts that already have blue candidates.
Can't see them being the cause of more than a seat flip, maybe two.
@Free Vulcan
For NOW.
There are more of them reaching voting age every election cycle,though,and they have the convictions of religious fanatics when it comes to the environment,global warming,and every other brain fart you can think of.
About the only thing I can think of that would wake them up would be the inevitable Chinese invasion/take over of the left coast,as well as the invasion of Eastern Russia.
AND.....,who is going to stop them? Certainly not the people living happily in local collectives that have never experienced anything else.
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Setting aside absurdly early voting, ballot harvesting, precincts closed on election day, counting until the number of votes needed are miracuously found without a chain of custody, McConnell denying financial support to candidates who support the base over him ----- GenZ turned out en masse; for them this election was a very personalized crusade.
Kudos cannot be denied to the White House for coordinating with TikTok to focus the attention of GenZers on one or more of the "rights" they were about to lose ---- the "right" to kill their young (thank you so much, Lindsey); the "right' not to repay a student loan; the "right" to a gun-free world; the '"right" to change their sex as many times as they choose; and the "right" to have their IPhones powered by windmills..
They're now asking the question: "can you hear us now?". Apparently, our answer is "no".
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I still think it's possible all of the talk of a red wave itself demotivated conservatives, who figured it was a foregone conclusion.
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They both hate the oil industry and are pretty much woke.
A little off tangent, but about 20 years ago, I was wearing my work nomex while gassing up, and this cranky old woman came up to me and started bitching about the price of gas.
I looked at her and replied..... Lady, just for that comment.... I am going to raise prices 5 cents a gallon tommorrow.
Her mouth gaped open, and she was speechless. Sometimes I love messing with people.
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I still think it's possible all of the talk of a red wave itself demotivated conservatives, who figured it was a foregone conclusion.
Partly... and partly that the press is playing down success... I still don't know how many governorships and state houses rolled over - but it seemed pretty tight in a lot of places, even without a win. And just flipping the House, Florida, and Iowa is pretty respectable.
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Partly... and partly that the press is playing down success... I still don't know how many governorships and state houses rolled over - but it seemed pretty tight in a lot of places, even without a win. And just flipping the House, Florida, and Iowa is pretty respectable.
@roamer_1
VERY true,and sadly,I am as guilty as anyone else of overlooking that because the media did such a good job of "playing it down".
Make no mistake about it,the media is one of our most powerful and evil enemies. It IS the propaganda arm of International Globalism.
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potatohead observes:
"Yup...there are more of them than there are of us. And they are nuts! My college age nieces are a perfect example. They both hate the oil industry and are pretty much woke. A good friend of mine's niece who is going to UT Austin changed her name to "Leaf" and is non-binary...whatever the heck that is."
Once again, Jim Morrison said it in "Five to One":
"They got the guns, but we got the numbers"
As the nation's demographics change, a larger and larger cohort of the electorate will have been "totally educated" by the leftist-communist "education system".
Think traditional-minded Americans (mostly older ones) are going to vote their way out of it...?
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@roamer_1
VERY true,and sadly,I am as guilty as anyone else of overlooking that because the media did such a good job of "playing it down".
Make no mistake about it,the media is one of our most powerful and evil enemies. It IS the propaganda arm of International Globalism.
@sneakypete
That's right.
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I still think it's possible all of the talk of a red wave itself demotivated conservatives, who figured it was a foregone conclusion.
I think that there's some truth to that. So many assumed that it would be a red tsunami because Joe's policies are so bad and he can't remember what he's doing most of the time.
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I think that there's some truth to that. So many assumed that it would be a red tsunami because Joe's policies are so bad and he can't remember what he's doing most of the time.
There were a lot of people, myself included, that believed people being unhappy with how things were going would be enough to propel the Republicans to massive victory.
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I think that there's some truth to that. So many assumed that it would be a red tsunami because Joe's policies are so bad and he can't remember what he's doing most of the time.
Look at the start of the "welcome to the party pal" thread... our side was pretty confident weren't we?