We've been in the throes of a cultural shift for a long time. * Computers are pretty much the water everyone swims in. * Video games have gone from dots on a screen to hyper-realistic VR. * Everyone has phones wherever they are. * Kids live in cages. It used to be go out after breakfast, come home for lunch, come home for dinner, come home by dark. * No one remembers how bad life was in social countries like the USSR, and people want to bring it back here. * Illegal immigrants actually think they have the right to be here. * Admitting you're gay DOESN'T earn you ridicule, ostracism, or a beating from your peers. * Same-sex marriage is a court-ordered mandate, rather than a joke in a Looney Tunes cartoon (usually featuring Elmer Fudd in a frilly white dress). * People treat their dogs like they do their children. * Pot is legal, but tobacco is targeted.

Lol. You need to stop watching Fox News. 1. The shift has already happened. It happened because fourty years of deindustrialization, the largest wealth disparity since The Gilded Age and a global race to the bottom had reached a tipping point where it is no longer sustainable. 2. People are realizing in the West that the system no longer serves their needs. Which has triggered an anti-establishment populism. 3. Among older generations that already had a political bias to the Right, the are shifting further to the Right. The younger generations are shifting to the left. 4. We are currently seeing a panicked last grasp for power on the Right as they face a demographic wave that they cannot reverse. (Demographic Panic). As both young people and brown people align to the Left. A byproduct here in the US of 50 years of the Southern Strategy and demonization of people of color. 5. But short of a fall into Totalitarianism, the outcome has already been decided. Those favoring the Right will eventually die off, and minorities will continue to gain more economic and political power. The only question that remains to answered is whether the Right will honor our tradition and cede power when the time comes.... ...,or in desperation and bitterness will they knock over the game board, and throw the pieces in the air. IOW how much chaos will they create and how many things will they break on their way out.

Fortnite must die

What I find hilarious is the number of people voicing over-dramatized fear of some right-wing dictatorial uprising in the U.S. Leftist policies absolutely dominate the laws of the land and the cultural narrative. That still isn't enough, apparently. So, when more and more people start thinking as individuals and less as a collective, some of them are coming to realize that far-left ideology is damaging and often times absurd. Then, those people who voice concern or skepticism over far-left culture are treated as if they are ready to fall in line for a right-wing fascist dictatorship. Sorry, but the radical left is much closer to fascism in the U.S. than the right is. The pendulum everyone speaks so often about is too extreme and the political climate too volitile to be healthy. There is no middle ground it seems in politics. Either you're called a tranny-loving leftist cuck or a bigoted fascist N@zi. Here's an idea, how about I'm someone who likes some things and not others and don't really give a damn what party the idea comes from.

Actually, most Gen Z I've met grew out of that edgy "right wing" phase, just my experience.

[quote] -Gen Z is the most right leaning generation in decades [/quote] More right leaning than the people in the 50's/60's against civil rights?

How could bitcoin not make this list?

For Trump being elected, that's the effect of the vast majority of US citizens who don't care about their own country's politics, but they care more about whining and complaining rather than action. Brexit is the same thing: Where many of the Brits honestly didn't care and they now have to deal with the consequences of political apathy. One of my friends voted to remain, but she was one of the very few who actually went out and voted. Italy has been right-leaning for generations, but the pendulum swings back. Let's just hope it doesn't swing to the point where we have another Benito running the country. I don't know that much about Sweden, but if it get violent, I can see myself crossing that off of my "travel to this country" list. Globally, or just the US? I've noticed more companies offshoring and moving to different countries to avoid the effects of Trump and his "tough-guy" persona towards the US allies. China has been an international superpower for quite some time, but it's definitely surprising to see them outpacing the US in many avenues. They're doing things right that the US is stagnating on, while also trying to fix their screw ups made over the years. They also have that debt that the US owes them, and I'm pretty sure that they're just waiting for the US to make a dumb move to pull out their trump card, no pun intended. This one surprised me about how North Korea got the better end of the bargain while the US got peanuts in return. It's great that the US is trying to get North Korea to become modernized and part of the global playing field, but we should have honestly gotten more than what we ended up getting. Star Wars has always been political, tbh, ever since Episode IV, though I didn't see this much backlash during Episode I, II, and III, which those are arguably worse than VII and VIII. I can imagine Gen Z kids having tons of back problems in the future given how pretty much every single one of them are looking down into an electronic device. I already see a LOT of Gen Z kids that are socially inept when it comes to face-to-face interactions, since they spend more time interacting with each other on their electronic devices rather than talking to people face-to-face. They can be right-wing, but if they can't express their ideas towards someone's face like they do on the internet, what use is their idea? It's like owning a car that has no gas or oil. There's a lot of issues going on in Japan, with the declining birth rate, the longer lifespan, and also still having to deal with the effects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki even 70+ years later via offspring and mutations. Also the Fukushima plant and natural disasters hitting Japan aren't doing much service either. AAA game devs have fallen far from their path. They care more about money and fitting in rather than the players. The fault is on them for being so narrow-minded. This is the fault of both the media and the GP. The general public is afraid to step out of their biases on both sides, so they fall back towards their biases for comfort. It's gotten to the point where even neutral parties are being seen as leaning one way or the other, mainly because the general public lacks critical thinking, which is a sad reality, but also one that should have been expected for quite some time. Critical thinking skills are formed during the K-12 years, but are honed and refined in higher education. Given that the general population (at least in the US) can't attain/doesn't want to attain even an Associate's level of college education, the skills that they don't use will wither over time, with critical thinking being one of those skills that have withered over time. Cable needs to die off. It provides a very limited amount of service and hardly anyone uses it anymore. People rely on their smartphones or handheld electronic devices to get their fix of watching their favorite show, getting their news and whatnot. We are definitely entering an interesting decade, let's just hope that Gen Z doesn't screw it up, because Gen X'ers, Gen Y's, and Millenials are still trying to sift through the burning garbage pile that the Baby Boomers left us. Gen Z's have all of the services laid out for them, and now it's their time to shine.

Good to know that genZ aren’t a bunch of weirdos like the millennials

Booming economy???? The stock market would beg to differ. The stock market is currently lower than the week after new tax law passed. Couple that w the fact that we are in trade war w the world, and I think the change coming will not be good.

It's all about to go to crap

After teaching 2nd and 3rd graders who have more knowledge about a YouTuber and dance moves than they do vocabulary, I can say that the future is looking very different from what we’ve come to know.