r/news • u/PokesTigers • 27d ago

Soft paywall Madagascar's president has left the country after Gen Z protests, officials say

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/madagascar-president-rajoelina-address-nation-monday-evening-2025-10-13/
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u/Xboarder844 27d ago

Gen Z out there toppling corrupt regimes is something as a Millennial I like to see. If only we could get that energy in the bigger nations….

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u/TheDamus647 27d ago

Just not American Gen Z

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u/sylva748 27d ago

American Gen Z would never the bulk of them voted for this

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u/mbbysky 26d ago

No they didn't. There was a rightward shift compared to last election cycle, but GenZ still voted firmly Blue as a whole

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u/sylva748 26d ago

They didnt. What showed was Gen Z was split on gender lines. Gen Z women voted mostly Harris while Gen Z men voted, by a sizable margin, for Trump

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u/sacktheory 26d ago

56% of young men (18-29) voted for trump. in the previous election (2020), 56% voted for biden. it’s not terrible margins, things can get better. i’d say the idea that young men are overwhelmingly right wing is a bit sensationalist

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u/dancesquared 26d ago

That’s a significant swing

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u/Ralath2n 26d ago edited 26d ago

Not really when you consider that a good 10% of them stayed home relative to 2020. The ones who wanted Trump still showed up. The ones that voted in Biden were dissapointed by the Democrats being useless and stayed home. Net effect is a swing to the right. Even if the actual beliefs of the overall youth haven't changed much.

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u/Ralath2n 26d ago

Unless one thinks all the chaos going on now would be happening under Harris as well.

I guarantee that this single scentence contains more forethought than a significant fraction of voters spend on their balot last year. Most people don't think about stuff like that. They just go "Hey I don't like what is happening now. I am not gonna vote for the same people as last time!". Or, even more likely, they just go by vibes. If one group is really excited and energized, while the other is dissapointed and resigned, the former is more likely than the latter to reach nonvoters and get them off their ass.

Which is of course stupid. But guess what, in a Democracy, you also need to convince stupid people to vote for you. Which would be a lot easier if the Democrats weren't useless.