One in Five Young Americans Has a Positive Impression of... Osama Bin Ladin

You don't say.

Gee, I wonder how they came by these insane pro-terrorist-violence Marxist opinions.

Oh that's right. I remember now.

The Daily Mail:

One in five young Americans has a positive view of 9/11 mastermind and Al Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden, according to disturbing results of a DailyMail.com poll.

The alarming survey also found three in 10 Gen Z voters believe the views of the anti-Semitic terrorist leader who slaughtered thousands of innocent people were a 'force for good'.

Family members of 9/11 victims said the findings are 'horrifying' and proof of a startling trend suggesting some in the younger generation are growing sympathetic to terrorists.

Another DailyMail.com poll in October found one in 10 voters under the age of 30 had a positive view of Hamas, despite the group's murderous attack on Israel that killed more than 1,300 men, women and children.

You know who is definitely not down with Osama bin Ladin?

The one generation since WWII that's worth a damn.*

Gen X and President Biden: Reality bites December 27, 20235:29 AM ET

President Biden is most unpopular among members of Generation X, who lean more conservative than those in other generations.

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"Gen X is the most Republican of the generations," said Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University and author of the book Generations, which examines what drives generational differences.

NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist polling underscores that point: By generation, Biden has the highest disapproval rating from Generation X (62%), compared with the Silent/Greatest Generation (48%), baby boomers (48%) and Generation Z/millennials (50%). Biden also has the highest "strongly disapprove" rating from Gen X (52%), compared with the Silent/Greatest Generation (41%), boomers (39%) and Gen Z/millennials (35%).

Twenge says that political leanings of generations can be influenced by the popularity of the president when that generation is in adolescence or young adulthood. For Gen X, that is largely defined by an unpopular Carter and a popular Republican president, Ronald Reagan.
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Walters added that Trump's "Make America Great Again" messaging appeals to older voters, particularly boomers but also their Gen X children. "They saw their parents doing well or making a decent life that they feel like they weren't able to have the same access to -- could be the other piece."

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Culture wars are nothing new for Gen Xers -- the generation that coined the term "political correctness" -- but the current debate over when and how to police speech is particularly unpopular with them. "Gen X really prides themselves on being tough, and based on their upbringing and childhood and their adolescence, there's just a lot of pride in being able to roll with the punches and being able to have conversations with people you disagree with," said Twenge.

Gen Xers are not as culturally conservative as boomers -- the generation that preceded them. But they're also not as culturally progressive as millennials and Gen Z.

Sean Trende, senior elections analyst for RealClearPolitics and himself a Gen Xer, described it as "almost like a cultural libertarianism."

"We call it culture war or cancel culture or wokeness or whatever -- I think Generation X is the one that that reverberates negatively with the most," he said.

* As a generation, I mean. Obviously there are lots of great examples from all generations, and terrible examples from Gen X.

But yeah, overall, Gen X is the one which is broadly sane. Unfortunately, it's also the smallest generation. (Excluding older generations who are losing population due to dying off.)

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:30 PM

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