While Gen Z is united on some issues, including climate change and legalizing marijuana, political rifts remain. It is tempting to see the teens and young 20-somethings of Generation Z as a united, progressive force, rising up to challenge a divided country. "Someone else may be in power, but this country belongs to them," Stephen Colbert said on his late-night show. Midterm youth-voter turnout was up 47% in 2018 from 2014, according to estimates from the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, or Circle.
And they're turning up at the polls in numbers. They created a #NeverAgain movement on social media, confronting politicians and organizing rallies, protests, and marches. Over the past year, the Parkland teens have helped organize one of the largest youth protests since the Vietnam War. "But instead we are up here standing together, because if all our government and president can do is send thoughts and prayers, then it's time for victims to be the change that we need to see." "Every single person up here today, all these people should be home grieving," Emma Gonzales, then 18, said at a rally after the shooting. In 2018, students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, watched a gunman murder 17 of their classmates.
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