After years of being told that the progressive attitudes of younger generations would “save us” and take us towards a utopian future, we are rapidly learning that the politics of gen Z – today’s 13- to 27-year-olds – are something more fractured, with just as many young people carrying rightwing views as leftwing ones (and, on certain issues, even more).
This reality has become starker in recent days in the wake of many surveys uncovering “shocking” new findings about gen Z’s political attitudes. A Mail on Sunday survey published two weeks ago found that more than two-thirds of the 18- to 27-year-olds questioned supported chemical castration for sex offenders – and just under half supported bringing back the death penalty.
