... "Many comments on videos tagged as #Bushcore use past moments to contrast the current administration," Mohammed said. "Users are saying, 'These were like Bush's lowest moments. Somehow they tower over Trump's best,' or 'I would've NEVER thought 20 years ago … I wish he could be president again … I miss him,' representing how unhappy Gen Zers are with contemporary politics."
"A recent YouGov/Economist poll shows that President Trump continues to have a significantly low approval rating among young voters—61 percent disapprove. They use Bush's persona as relief, reminiscent of times when there was supposedly more empathy and community in politics," she added. ...
One would think that Gen Z would be more, I don't know, REBELLIOUS or UNGOVERNABLE if it's really true that they have experienced the following awful realities.
One of life's great mysteries.
...
a typical Zoomer on the apps is getting rejected by, and rejecting,
more prospective partners in a week than a typical married boomer has in their entire life.
... Ella, a 20-year-old from Allentown, Pennsylvania, applied to 12
colleges and got rejected from 10. "I had so much hubris and unfounded
confidence," she says. "I just thought, well, I'll only want to go to
college if I can get into a 'prestigious school.' They ask, 'Why us?'
obviously, and I couldn't tell them why besides it's Harvard."
In a Substack post she published before her high school graduation, she
described how at odds her tenfold rejection was with her belief in
simply working hard to succeed. "I thought that I was going to be
someone," she wrote.
... many Zoomers apply to more jobs in a day than many lucky Boomers have in their lives. ...
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