Democrats, Media Turning Zoomers Into Doomers

A poll found that 34% of youths fear being a mass shooting victim

The Biden era is turning America’s youngest voters, the “zoomers,” into doomers. They’re depressed and fearful — and their confidence in the nation’s institutions, from the police to the Supreme Court, is weakening. So is their support for Joe Biden. the NY Post recently reported.

Only 36% of Americans aged 18 to 29 approve of Biden’s job performance, according to a new poll by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics.

They’ve created a mentality of despair among young Americans, who look on as crime soars but hear nothing but a drumbeat from liberal media outlets about how bad the cops are.

As a result, 48% of the zoomers polled by IOP say they have felt unsafe in the past month — in shopping malls (16%), on public transportation (15%), in their neighborhoods (13%) and on their college campuses (21%).

More than one in five report feeling unsafe elsewhere in their city or town, too. Citizens of all ages have reason to feel less safe as murders and carjackings surge.

But even heinous yet relatively rare crimes have become a source of persistent fear for young Americans, especially college women.

The political use to which Democrats put mass shootings, coupled with the wall-to-wall coverage these atrocities inevitably attract, has led 53% of college women to believe that they or someone close to them could be a victim of one.

Ordinary criminal violence is the far greater risk. But only 43% of the young people in IOP’s survey say that having police officers in their community makes them feel safer.

The media glare upon every police-involved killing, sensational coverage utterly disproportionate to the primary sources of violence in any community, is having an effect.