it's not actually clear what "optimism" means in this poll.
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Michael Edison Hayden
It's common to report optimism before a change in power but the young people excited for Trump should embarrass Democrats.
Improve their material conditions or they'll settle for betting on crypto.
Improve their material conditions or they'll settle for betting on crypto.
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But a lot of people are about to find out what a trump promise is worth.
https://youtu.be/ww47bR86wSc?si=e1bYoPdS3pGjhPTy
I always feel there should be a follow-up question on the optimism question asking Why they feel that way. The surface-level question provides no reasoning or understanding for analysis.
Or "will Trump be able to successfully bring our nation back from the brink of Joe Biden's failed woke DEI open border?"
donny 3rd lowest “optimism” rating of any prez since WW2👇🏼
majorities OPPOSE almost everything donny wants to do👇🏼
or say donny WILL NOT HELP make things better👇🏼
all in all donny starts term as 1 of weakest post WW2 prez’s
so let’s unite to fight him👇🏼
https://bsky.app/profile/theradr.bsky.social/post/3lfxs6iuzrc2n
https://youtu.be/p9r5VYaUUsY
...or maybe just a belief in "the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party will only eat my enemies' faces, not mine."
https://www.scribd.com/document/817537614/cbsnews-20250119-SUN
It's vague, but also note 56% said they are "hopeful".
A lot of disappointment coming, I'd say.
But in the meantime...jeeeez, eh?
67% of young people are optimistic, but women + non-whites + LGBTQ+ are 80% of that age group.
(Gen Z is 50% non-white, 50% women, 20% LGBTQ+ => 80% at least one of those)
They're just sure the leopard won't eat their face because they're a "good" one.
1) Greedy
2) Malicious
3) Ultimately destructive
Blaming young people instead of those with actual institutional power is how you keep losing over and over again.
When y'all finally wake up and come to terms with why maybe we can start winning elections again.
"Young people are more optimistic than old people" is continuity not change.
One of our problems is we keep taking the wrong lessons from polls
What a person *feels* or *intends to do* are so subjective, no algorithm can guess what a common answer means.
Q: "Do most people eat food?", could extrapolate an intelligent answer from a flawed perception.
“It starts with messaging”
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