Gen Z politics are exhausting

I understand that politics are important for people, especially in my generation. Within a few years, a select group of people can completely change the trajectory of our country.

Generation Z is at the forefront of people who will feel the long-term effects of our leaders’ choices. I feel like we’re at the point where people in our generation care too much about the wrong things. Not only do they care about the wrong things, what they know is often completely incorrect or wildly misleading.

Let’s get this straight. Liberals, Donald Trump is not a raging white supremacist hellbent on destroying every minority in America. Conservatives, Kamala Harris will not sneak into your child’s elementary school to teach them about gay sex and gender reassignment surgery. If you were active in brain rotted political discourse circles, you would believe otherwise.

People will believe anything they see on the internet, regardless of how utterly insane it may be, simply because it aligns with their political beliefs. I’ve heard people spout pure bullshit at me while I have to try and act like they’re not genuinely stupid out of respect.

Whatever happened to “don’t believe everything you see on the internet?” Yet, that’s exactly what people are doing. Day after day, I see something absolutely ridiculous being posted on the internet. I just think to myself “How are people stupid enough to believe this?”

I understand the argument that “It’s hard to tell the difference between satire and reality,” but it is not that bad. In the modern day of technology, if you are unable to fact check your own sources, you don’t deserve to be attending this college and reading this newspaper. You would have to be bottom of the barrel, room temperature IQ in order to believe a majority of political “news” online.

It’s infuriating having to listen to the same (incorrect) talking points over and over coming from college students who do not know anything about politics.

Why do you care so much? Do your homework or do something productive with your life instead of getting your opinions from deep-diving “The Joe Rogan Podcast”. It’s just all so tiring.

Daeton Winebrenner is a Salina sophomore studying media production.

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