Opinion by Greg Sargent: Youth turnout exploded during the 2018 midterm elections. Data from the Harvard Youth Poll of 18-to-29-year-olds suggests that today’s young voters are much more progressive than young voters were even five or 10 years ago.
of 18-to-29-year-olds released each spring — all suggest that today’s young voters are substantially more progressive on these issues than young voters were even five or 10 years ago. Sizable majorities now reject the idea that same-sex relationships are morally wrong , support stricter gun laws and want government to provide basic necessities .Meanwhile, support for government doing more to curb climate change soared to 57 percent in 2020 before subsiding to 50 percent this year.
Mass shootings have been on the rise, with the 2018 massacre at a school in Parkland, Fla., acting as a . Heat waves and wildfire smog have driven home the realities of climate change with new urgency and vividness.Meanwhile, the pandemic likely drove home the vulnerability of millions to economic shocks as well as the woefully patchy social safety net in the United States.
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