Most people in my generation (Gen Z) blamed Biden for shutting down the schools in 2020 during Covid when in reality, it was Trump that was the president in 2020 and he made the country close their schools during the pandemic. I think that’s why most of my generation (Gen Z) voted for Trump the third time because they think that Biden was the president in 2020 and believe that he close down the schools. Why do you think that Gen Z didn’t see that Trump was the president during 2020 when Covid hit and instead blame Biden and believing that he was the president in 2020?
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Most people in my generation (Gen Z) blamed Biden for shutting down the schools in 2020 during Covid when in reality, it was Trump that was the president in 2020 and he made the country close their schools during the pandemic. I think that’s why most of my generation (Gen Z) voted for Trump the third time because they think that Biden was the president in 2020 and believe that he close down the schools. Why do you think that Gen Z didn’t see that Trump was the president during 2020 when Covid hit and instead blame Biden and believing that he was the president in 2020?
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Because that’s what trump told them.
Meanwhile, they also think Trump sent the checks and that he would do it again
“if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually believe it”- joseph goebells
They saw that Biden was elected in 2020 but forgot he didn’t get inaugurated until 2021. Idk, I’m still trying to figure that out myself.
Because he was openly for ending the lockdowns (as were many republicans, most notably DeSantis who literally is popular now purely because of the flak the left gave him for opening Florida up “early”) long before the typical democrat was.
Also he blamed it on China, when it was from China, and undoubtedly from a lab in China, while people on the left and in this sub to this day still spew CCP propaganda to the contrary (John Stewart had the best take on this)
Not to defend the guy but he did not “make” schools close. He was against it but each state/school had their own policy. The biggest advocates for keeping schools closed were on the left and I think that’s where the resentment stems from.
There is no way to answer this question without sounding like a fogey, so…
It’s because the youths have the Big Stupid. It’s just that.
Signing the checks was a brilliant PR move that ha caused a lot of people (not just gen z) to think he did a good job handling it in retrospect, when in reality his shitty reaction helped Biden win in 2020.
Because people who buy into historical revisionism don’t care about the reality of the pandemic.
They care about what feels “narratively true,” an alternative timeline which was largely constructed by right-wing grifters and numbskulls.
Even in early 2020, you had Trump buying into the belief that the country could be reopened by Easter, and that any sort of lockdown or restriction was a “liberal” thing to pursue.
His base fomented misinformation, and Trump was eager to repackage those ideas and sell them back.
You make the assumption that liberals and conservatives have access to the same information, thus should reach the same objectively true and verifiable conclusions.
But your base assumption is wrong: conservatives live in a completely alternate reality of their own making.
There is no sequence of words you can say to bridge the gap between our two realities.
I don’t think GenZ connects anything that Trump does to their lived experience. I’m not sure any generation of Americans have done this for a long time. You need to remember that our government does not really do much of anything anymore outside of finance private companies to do things. I would suspect the average American will have more of a perspective on Apple products than the policies or tenants of either political party as a result of this social engineering.
Internet propaganda is a hell of a drug, and nobody in the history of the species as been more terminally 24/7 all day every day exposed to an endless stream of propo and gossip and hear say and crap hottakes than Gens Z and A.
Yes, but Biden was President for most of Covid.
Covid deaths also spiked during Bidens administration too.
>blamed Biden for shutting down the schools in 2020 during Covid when in reality, it was Trump that was the president in 2020 and he made the country close their schools during the pandemic.
Individual states made their decision about whether to keep schools open or closed, neither Biden nor Trump had say in that. Fighting ignorance with ignorance doesn’t help.
It’s also likely due to Trump publicly arguing schools shouldn’t close, but letting state governors decide (he didn’t have much legal choice here), while Biden encouraged structured guidelines on how and if to reopen.
In reality all decisions about schools being open or closed were done at the state level and this is more an example of peoples illiteracy in how our government works, and how critical local politics are in their lives.
As a Gen Z myself, I would never blame Biden because I knew Trump would screw crap up regardless if schools were open or not.
Trump didn’t close the schools that was a state decision. And Republican states had much lower restrictions than Democratic states.
Blaming any president for closing your local schools is a level of ignorance that I didn’t know existed.
I disagree probably with the majority of my fellow liberals on this, but the right was always the side of re-opening things. The fact Trump didn’t use his authoritarian powers to keep things open , doesn’t mean he “closed” things. His entire narrative was around ignoring the pandemic and downplaying it, with R governors regularly re-opening stuff usually way too early. Framing Trump as the one responsible for closing things just loses you credibility to anyone outside of the left imo.
Neither Trump nor Biden shut down any schools. That was a state decision. Some states shut down the schools longer than others.
The issue wasn’t so much closing then in 2020 as it was not reopening them promptly once it could be done.
It’s not even a Biden/Trump question.
State and local govt’s were largely responsible for setting their own covid restrictions (lockdowns, vaccine requirements, school closures).
Maybe we need better civics lessons?
Generally the democrats were more in favor of lockdowns and the republicans were less in favor. When states started opening up they were met with hatred from the media. Today it seems most people see the lockdowns as a mistake, when you show a video of cops kicking families out of a park it’s seen as insane vs the mindset then when people were in favor of that.
Because that’s what they’re told. The GOP tells them this in various ways. Sometimes it’s a sound byte.
The GOP did this in 2015-ish when they tried to blame Obama for the 07-08 financial crisis (Ted Cruz), even though Obama inherited that crisis as POTUS.
Seems like you didn’t see that the schools closures and many other covid measures were almost all enacted on the state level, and not by Trump or Biden.
Because they’re still kids and don’t know shit about fuck yet. I see kids in the Gen z subs claiming to be libertarians, as if they even know what that means in truth, or how anything in the world works.
Jamelle Bouie posted on TikTok his theory that people associate the year a president was elected with the first year of their term.
He pointed to a CNN interview where Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma said that Obama was president in 2008 when US Attorney Alex Acosta gave Epstein his sweetheart deal, when in actuality, Acosta was appointed by George W Bush and 2008 was the final year of Bush’s term.
See also Trump and 2016, and most perniciously, Biden and 2020.
Presidents do not start serving the same year they were elected. Obama was elected in 2008 and started serving in 2009. Trump was elected in 2016 and started serving in 2017. Biden was elected in 2020 and started serving in 2021.
They think Obama did 9/11 too
People are retarded. They think Epstein was arrested under Biden. I randomly opened Threads and saw someone believe that.
If you want the answer, try asking them what they thought about Obama’s leadership during 9/11.
A lot of them are just incredibly fucking stupid.
I need sources for your claims.
>Most people in my generation (Gen Z) blamed Biden for shutting down the schools
Do they?
>most of my generation (Gen Z) voted for Trump the third time
Gen Z voted for Harris +4 in the 2024 election. It’s about the same margin as Millennials.
I find the impact of COVID on the younger electorate pretty fascinating. I think there have been some studies that show that Gen Z who were in college at the time voted similar to Millennials and lean significantly Left, but those who were in High School voted GOP at much greater levels.
I think part of it is that the medical/scientific community were largely the ones saying that stuff, and many people see the medical/scientific community as “on the left.”
It was the same thing after 2008, sooo many people talked about Obama in the following years, like, yo Bush was president!!! Idk if it affects voting, I would actually push back on that a bit, but I think it’s just bc they are election years so people who weren’t adults or who weren’t really paying attention at that time forget that it’s not the elected person who is president in an election year or something.
misinformation from news entertainment like fox noise
As a clinician who worked in a hospital at the time, you don’t know what you’re talking about regarding COVID mortality but I’m sorry that you suffered from the policies states enacted to stop the spread of the virus.
Neither president “made the country close their schools” because school closures were not mandated by the federal government. Trump left it up to the states, creating significant confusion because there were 50 different covid responses instead of one clear directive. Trump then publicly attacked all the states that closed schools and threatened to withhold disaster relief funds unless they opened them back up.
In conjunction with the Republican Party, right-wing media sets the narrative that the entire country believes for the vast majority of issues. They’ve spent years complaining about lockdowns and doing their COVID conspiracy theorizing, all the while blaming Democrats for lockdowns which happened under Trump. Because they’ve seen nothing but Democrats being blamed, they’ve gotten it in their heads that Democrats were in charge at the time.
Probably confused because the election was in 2020
Algorithms pushed them a bunch of lies on social media and too many people weren’t taught how to suss out blatant, easily refutable disinformation.
People are way more stupid than you think they are.
This is a fact that will trouble you for your entire life
Gen Z? Half of MAGA seems to think Biden “locked them inside their house and forced them to take an experimental vaccine”.
Why? Because that’s what the media has been telling them for 5 years.