Gen Z is very underwhelmed by congressional Democrats

You make the choice based on the cards you're dealt, not the ones you wished you have. Beyond the election though, because you have more time, you try to change the game. People have it ass backwards - trying to change the game during the election, then sit out the tenure whining about the raw deal they have.
- Some people did try to change the game; anti-genocide protests had been going on since October and Uncommitted got going nine months before the election. Both were dismissed by basically the whole country.
  
  You think nine months before an election is enough time to change a massive establishment like the DNC? Presidential campaigns take years of planning before candidates even announce their running.
  You think a small percentage of voters in a few states whose only message is "Don't vote for Biden" is the kind of action we need to "change the game"? If this is the kind of action lemmy progressives expect to take and make meaningful strides towards progress it's absolutely no surprise nothing actually gets done. Maybe do something useful besides spreading fasicts voter suppression talking points and maybe start now instead of February 2028.
  
  Dems fought harder against those protesting a genocide than trump
  
  WOW, OCTOBER?!
  YOU MEAN ONE MONTH WASN'T ENOUGH?
- You make the choice based on the cards you’re dealt, not the ones you wished you have.
  You appeal to the electorate you have, not the electorate you think should exist.
  Beyond the election though, because you have more time, you try to change the game.
  Yeah, we saw how that worked with Biden.
  
  Unfortunately progressives are a very small percentage of the electorate and have proven time and time again they aren't going to show up to vote. In fact progressives so rarely show up that they've effectively removed themselves as members of the electorate.
- "But it's borrrrrrring when it's not an election! What, you want me to show up to vote in the primaries too? What are you, some kinda fascist make me vote guy?"
  
  Primaries. Where party leadership fought tooth and nail to keep challengers off the ballot and eventually just said "fuck it" and gave us who they wanted anyway.
  And now they're whining about neutrality because David Hogg wants to primary republican-lite incumbents in deep blue seats. "Vote in the primaries! Not like that!"

Everyone under 50 is very underwhelmed
- Every poll I have seen recently shows Boomers being more progressive than the next younger groups.
  
  Edit: yeah this is misinformation
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  Wait, are you serious? It would shock the hell out of me, but it would be so encouraging to learn that boomers were changing their minds.
  Unless we’re talking about a specific national progressive policy that benefits them directly, like improving social security, or local progressive policies they rely on, like increasing agricultural subsidies, in my life I’ve only ever seen that cohort grow more conservative.
  Or are you saying that gen xyz are rapidly becoming more conservative, such that they’ve surpassed the boomers?
  I’m not disbelieving you, just trying to make this make sense since it defies the trend. I’ll look for these polls but if there are specific ones you mean, I would be interested to know which.
  Update: so far I’m finding the complete opposite to be true (at least from anything close to a reputable source, which doesn’t include opt-in online polls). It appears the generational group often referred to as boomers is now polling more conservative than ever before. Part of this trend might be explained by the fact that we are losing the oldest boomers first, and these were the ones who had the chance to identify with the countercultural movements of the 60s and 70s, whereas most of the younger boomers, who were famously outspoken fans of the Vietnam war and Reagan, are still present.
- As someone over 50 I understand that I am not marrying these people.
  I want someone to stop Trump and Putin from destroying America.
  Given the choice between Biden and Trump, the choice was Biden.
  Harris and Trump = Harris
  It is now pre primary season so now is the time to find someone who can approximate your views and get enough support to get elected.
  If your favorite candidate doesn’t win the primary, don’t be a little removed and stay at home.
  If you don’t spend your free time and money supporting someone in the primaries, then you choose from what you get like the rest of us.

Just GenZ huh? Not say Millenials or Gen X? The rest of us don't hate the bullshit? K...
- Yeah exactly. As a GenX’r I’m so fricking tired of the current Democratic bs. We need to stop considering doing something and finally do it. Trump got in because the lead democrats were too afraid of change. I for one welcome fresh and young minds so my kids don’t have to grow up in an apocalyptic oil drenched wasteland.
- Millennials are called the forgotten generation for a reason.
  
  I thought that was Gen X.
- No one said that. No one implied that. That's not what this team happens to focus on.
  "I was talking to my parents, and they said they really liked the movie"
  "Oh yeah? Well, what about MY parents? Does it not matter whether they like it? What about other people's parents? Wtf??"
  
  The title says that. The title implies that. It literally says GenZ as if no one else is tired of the bullshit. GenZ may be the focus of the groups studying, but it is painted as if it's just a bunch of kids whining. They could have painted this many other ways, such as saying, "like other generations above them" or "when compared to generational cohorts" there are ways it isn't isolating and requires no major extra effort on the researchers part other than looking at the same data but a few years removed.
  They did the same to Millenials and Gen X in years past and I'm sure other generations at various times as well. It's not a new issue to act like the youngest generation is the one with all the complaints and simultaneously belittle them and downplay their issues. It's a prevalent and annoying tactic used to discredit and ostracize.

I think that's exactly what David Hogg is doing with his primary challenges to moderate Democrats in safe blue seats. It makes no sense for one party to be moderately left when the other party is hard right, regardless of how toxic the political environment is going to be. If you only really have two parties, they have to both occupy the center (pre-1970) or both be somewhat ideological.

Because they're underwhelming, on the whole.
The Dems won't win anything again until the party is massively restructured. Moving to the center has failed again and again and again.
You know what the other side is also doing? Moving rightward.

As they should be. I'd rather see a Dem fill the seat but they were letting the existing problems before Trump Electric Boogaloo fester and now are either not doing much or are not revealing much and need to really start to take actual action as opposition
Would love to see a replacement party emerge that actually tries to meet what non-republican society is looking for and isn't just "not the awful ones".

Underwhelmed is an understatement

I think its never been more possible to get a real third party started, but I still don't think it would actually work yet. Like we're so close though.
- There have been third parties forever. Till we reform our current election system, no third party could make a difference. It was designed this way to keep power in the hands of the capital class.
- You'll never get there until you actually do something to get there. The perfect situation you're waiting for won't come unless you work for it.