I grew up with unsupervised internet access throughout the 2010s in the height of the woke era. My parents never really knew or cared what I was doing online, and my irl friend circle has always been confined to a pretty small group of nerds. I didn't grow up going to church or being taught anything about traditional morality, aside from hard work, charity, things like that.
I still never became gay or trans or any of the new stuff that's coming out.
Why not?
It just didn't resonate. Kids are impressionable but I think it goes far deeper than than just seeing woke propaganda and falling for it. That stuff has to resonate with something in the mind at a deep level for it to assume a part of someone's identity. A lot of these impulses are actually good in isolation, but directed towards strange and concerning ends by our modern culture.
Most "woke kids" are actually very naturally compassionate and kind. They're sensitive to the feelings of themselves and others and hate suffering. Kids like this sometimes have a difficult time when their parents use "facts and logic" to invalidate their very real experience of life. A sensitive kid who grows up hearing things like "suck it up" "stop being a pussy" "life sucks but you get used to it" etc. is not going to identify with his or her upbringing later in life, in fact, they'll run away towards anything offering the understanding and validation they crave.
My parents were never like that, but I've known a lot of parents like that over the years. So much resentment builds up because the kid feels lost and alone in their own family without the anchor of unconditional love. They feel like acceptance is tied to a performance that doesn't feel true or right for them. They grow to suspect that their parents don't even love them and then fall susceptible to online communities offering that unconditional acceptance.
From my experience, it's usually the quiet younger sister or geeky brother in a large family that ends up like this. Kids with artistic tendencies are more likely to end up woke than those who like to play rough and work with their hands. Thoughtful, introspective, and introverted kids will gravitate towards woke if they don't have something else pulling them in. Also if they're diagnosed with something like ADHD or autism.
Basically, conservative parents lose their children due to a mismatch in style more so than a disagreement between actual values. That disagreement comes later, after the child has already slowly grown apart from the family they were raised in.
Woke has to resonate with something very strong in them that isn't being validated at home. Most kids see woke indoctrination in school and laugh it off like they do with the rest of the curriculum. It's more about what's happening prior to the propaganda than afterwards. I hope this makes sense.
You have to look no further than the modern attack on masculinity for the reasons the youth succumbs to this garbage.
Conservative people tend to do well financially thus making an easy life for their kids, who then grow up where everything comes easy and become entitled liberals
Nailed it. My wife and I both make good money. Both conservative. But we ended up with three very liberal children.
Kids like to "own" their decisions.
IMO ------ it is important, as a parent, to let kids own some decisions ----- make sure it's decisions that won't permanently ruin their life.
it's the pendulum swing. grass is always greener on the other side. if someone tells you not to do something, and you don't fully understand why... ...you're gonna wanna do that thing.
The not understanding thing is a huge part of it imo. A lot of parents aren't really equipped to explain things like gender/sexuality to kids who've been programmed from a young age to accept it. Conservatives often struggle to articulate why something's wrong beyond mocking it, which often has the opposite effect unintentionally.
So in short. Youthful Rebellion against Parents. Mixed with resentment over being raised in a way that frankly wasn’t overly touchy feely. To put it in basic parlance.
I mean I suppose I can understand. But at the same time. You don’t have many ways to drive it home. That irregardless of their feelings on the matter. Real life and wider society also doesn’t give a fuck about their feelings either.
Especially true when you’re raising sons. As Society views Males as more expendable.
I’ve seen kids raised in a feelings centered way with gobs of praise heaped on them for just managing to wake up on time. Self-destruct just as much as kids raised vice versa once real life hits and they stop getting told they’re special and their feelings matter every 5 minutes.
It’s very much a double-edged sword.
I think the feelings thing is less about lavishing praise over nothing and more about genuinely hearing out concerns. If a kid is saying they're in pain over something you think is small or unreasonable, I think it's helpful to figure out what's really going on and give them the benefit of the doubt.
My wife's friend since like 1st grade has 2 kids. Naturally my daughter and her daughter were best friends. My daughter spent every single weekend over there up until about 6th or 7th grade. Around 6th grade, every once in a while our daughter would call at like midnight and ask us to pick her up. We would go get her in the middle of the night if she called. Eventually she just didn't want to go there anymore. Her best friend told her parents around 7th grade that she was gay and their reaction was to start taking her to pride parades, and events AT 10 OR 11 YEARS OLD!!! My daughter sensed what was about to happen and wanted no part of it. She was put into a charter school from 7th grade to graduation because she hated hiw teachers were pushing gay shit in public grade school. Fast forward to today. My daughter is a hard reliable worker, her best friend is now a boy and is worthless in the workplace. Not only that, her friends little brother is now a lesbian. While my wife and their mom are still friends, we don't ever go to any of their freakshow family gatherings. And my daughter hasn't spoken to her once best friend in years. I blame the parents, not the internet.
I wouldn't be surprised if your daughter's friend was on the autism spectrum or something like that. She might legitimately have a disability that's been covered up by their gender situation. People being worthless in the workplace is usually a sign that something's wrong cognitively or psychologically.
Patty hearst complex
TL;DR: Because liberalism is a mental disorder.
I’ve been around enough of such people to know that this is true. Parents, dismiss this warning at the risk of your own family.