I get why Kamala Harris thought going after Gen Z was a good idea. It's one of the most successful plays in the Democrat playbook.
The youth are often ignorant, easily misled, and highly malleable. Dictators have targeted kids and schools as one of the first things to fall under state control since time immemorial. So when the former vice president decided she was going to create an X account called "Headquarters_67," there was probably no doubt in her mind that this was a solid move.
Only the issue is that "6-7" wasn't a Gen Z meme. It was a Gen Alpha meme, and Gen Alpha is largely not on X. Changing the name to "Headquarters_68" was never going to improve anything.
But let's say that Harris, and by extension the Democrats, actually did create an account that didn't cringe everyone out of the room and did, to some extent, speak to Gen Z.
It still wouldn't matter.
What the Democrats seem to be forgetting is that Gen Z is already a horrible pool to try to draw from, and that's because the Democrats have been poisoning said pool for years now.
If you go back to the 2024 election, you can see a massive divide in Gen Z by gender. To be sure, Gen Z women showed up en masse to vote for Kamala Harris, but as the Democrats only discovered far too late, there was a multi-generational, man-shaped hole in their voting base. The answer was to create a "White Guys for Harris" group, which is, to this day, one of the funniest things the Democrats have ever done.
I made an entire YouTube video about the phenomenon that you can watch to recap the hilarious turn of events...
... but the primary takeaway from this is that the left had been largely pushing men away for ages to embrace the radical feminist narratives, that it now picks up and drops when convenient. You'll notice the feminism in the Democrat Party gets relatively thin the moment a man in a dress walks in.
Democrats won't be embracing men anytime soon because they both won't and can't. To do so would be to turn their backs on the ideological radicalism that has formed the base of the party, and so the man-hating must continue apace, and to its own detriment. It will continue to bleed male support until the only men it has in its party wear makeup or are entirely performative males just looking to put on a show to get laid.
But if I could make a bold prediction.
I don't know if Democrats will be able to hold onto women much longer, either.
While outrage is great for a small boost in support, without substance, it's just temporary. Gen Z women age, too, and as people age, their priorities change, and with those changing priorities come changes of heart.
Go on TikTok right now, where a lot of Gen Z women are uploading content, and with increasing veracity you'll find these young women slowly becoming desperate for companionship. Move into the groups that get a tad older, and you'll find them teary-eyed over the fact that their marriage prospects and, thus, prospects of being a mother, are looking pretty grim. Entire YouTube channels are created based on collecting these confessions from women and how feminism is destroying them. Other women are even trying to warn younger women not to follow the "feminist" lie of being childfree being a fulfilling avenue to pursue.
At what point do the females of the species look to the party cheerleading all of this "empowerment," and they start to sour on them?
The point isn't respect for one gender or another, it's disrespect for human nature. It's just taking one side longer to catch up because their fears and anger were being catered to. At some point, the bill will come due for that, too, and I think Gen Z women will come down on Democrats hard when they get older.
Don't get me wrong, there will always be radicals who will never take accountability for anything, but trying to make a radical out of everyone is a tall order, and herein lies the issue with the Democrat Party's approach to Gen Z.
Right now, it's mostly gendered nonsense and social issues, and the goal is to make as many of the youth as possible take positions that are, in this day and age, radical compared to all of human history, and that just cannot be a good, long-term strategy. While feelings play a role in how people believe and even vote, feelings are easily swayed through events and life experiences, and trying to convince everyone that every life experience has to be seen and reacted to through a radical lens is just not realistic.
Life comes at you fast, and it's hard to hold onto the idea that communism is a superb way of governing when the quality of life craters and food becomes scarce. A person who was all about "trans-rights" in one moment will suddenly become the opposite the next, the moment a man in a wig, a dress, and badly applied makeup follows their daughter into the restroom.
The youth are more easily swayed, to be sure, but even the youth can only tolerate radicalism in so many areas for so long before they sour on it, too.
Just ask Gen Z men, the reason Democrats will likely find it much harder to become elected in the future.
