In Yesterday’s Elections, America’s Youth Roared
Last night, Democrats won control of both the House and the Senate in what analysts are calling the largest congressional shift in decades.
The party flipped seven Senate seats—including historic gains in Kansas, South Carolina and Texas—and netted dozens of House seats. That haul surpasses the 2018 Democratic House wave and rivals the 2006 flip of both chambers. Not since the 1994 Republican Revolution, when the gop picked up 54 House seats and eight Senate seats to end 40 years of Democratic control, has one party taken Congress so decisively.
Exit polls and news reports point to frustration with the economy, high gas prices and the war with Iran as the main drivers of the Democratic surge. But beneath the familiar map of red and blue, a deeper fault line ran through Tuesday’s results: age.
Recent national surveys show that between 43 and 57 percent of young American adults view socialism favorably, and the midterm results bear this out. Before the election, California Governor Gavin Newsom acknowledged that socialist ideas had become “mainstream in the Democratic Party.” On Tuesday, America’s youth turned out in droves for radical candidates.
According to nbc News, 72 percent of Gen Z voters backed Democrats, compared with just 48 percent of baby boomers. Many of those young voters pushed further left than the party itself, turning out for candidates endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America (dsa), who won at least five House seats.
With those wins, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Squad will swell from 7 to 12 members, all endorsed by the dsa and all supporting Medicare for All, defunding United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ice) and ending military aid to Israel.
Most Americans who came of age during the Cold War see the dsa as antithetical to everything the country stands for. The youngest voters see it differently. Polls consistently find that only about 4 in 10 members of Gen Z say they’re proud to be American.
Deutsche Bank’s analysts saw this coming. In a 2020 report on intergenerational conflict, they warned that young people increasingly saw themselves as the losers on housing, climate change and student debt, and that their anger would show up at the ballot box. “The widening gap between the generations is simply unsustainable,” the report concluded. “In the absence of something to redress the balance, the building resentment of younger citizens toward their elder counterparts will lead to a backlash.”
The midterm elections are the beginning of that backlash.
In his book Generation Gap: Why the Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture, political scientist Kevin Munger writes that baby boomers will eventually fade “like puddles in a pond.” When they do, Gen Z and their slightly older millennial counterparts will make up most of the electorate.
That new majority will shape the politics of the coming decade, but it won’t solve America’s problems.
Isaiah 3 records God’s judgment on the end-time descendants of Israel: Britain and its Commonwealth, the United States and the Jewish nation of Israel. Because of their disobedience, God warned He would remove the leaders who give a society its strength. In their place, He said, “I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them” (verse 4).
This prophecy is being fulfilled before our eyes.
Young people can see that their elders have no answers for the crises society faces. They are inheriting a crushing cost of living, trillions of dollars in debt, shrinking opportunity and a dangerous world. Many have concluded that the system is rigged against them, so they are turning to a subversive ideology that destroys nations.
President Donald Trump and his allies may be able to hold off America’s destruction for a few more years. But decades ago, the late Herbert W. Armstrong forecast that America’s dalliance with communism would pervert its morals, weaken its economic power, and eat away at its strength until it could no longer defend itself.
Hosea 7:8-9 prophesy that the modern descendants of ancient Israel would mix themselves among foreign peoples and, by extension, foreign ideologies. The far-left ideas the Democratic Party champions today did not grow out of traditional American culture, which is rooted in the Bible. They were imported from German and Russian universities. For decades, these anti-biblical ideologies have quietly hollowed out the nation, fulfilling Hosea’s warning: “Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not ….”
None of this should come as a surprise. As early as 1934, Mr. Armstrong was telling radio audiences that communism would attack America not with tanks but with ideas—and that its first target would be the nation’s classrooms. In 1969, as riots swept college campuses, he wrote that the radical left planned to stir up university students first and high schoolers next, because whoever captured the minds of tomorrow’s students would gain control. Fifty-seven years later, the students of that era have become the professors, and their pupils just handed far-left candidates new power in Washington.
Isaiah’s prophecy is a sobering call for the nation to turn back to God before the consequences grow worse. America was warned. To learn how Mr. Armstrong foresaw these trends decades in advance and where Bible prophecy says they are headed, read “The Communist Infiltration of America Was Prophesied” in our free booklet He Was Right.