WHY WOKE RIGHT IS WINNING GEN Z

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Older generations need to understand something uncomfortable: America’s youngest adults are not only trending in a new political direction — they’re doing so for reasons that most people over 30 haven’t even begun to diagnose. And if we don’t figure out why this is happening, we will not be able to offer any solution. The next generation will pay the price.

In my humble opinion this article is relevant to Australian Gen Z, probably Gen Z in the UK, and many Gen Z in Europe as well.

The article isn’t a justification for Gen Z’s political trajectory, nor is it an endorsement. Think of it as reconnaissance. This is a trip into the mindset of a generation that feels betrayed — and into the ideologues who have successfully captured that frustration and weaponized it. The enemy isn’t Gen Z. The enemy is the movement that has taken advantage of them.

This isn’t an exhaustive list of every factor, but these are the major ones driving the rise of the so-called “woke right.”

First, where is Gen Z actually going?

On the surface, Gen Z looks like it’s drifting “right.” Polling suggests they’re more skeptical of progressive nonsense than Millennials were at their age (particularly young men). Online, they share Bible verses, post Crusader memes, and roast Left-wing ideas with the confidence of people twice their age.

But don’t confuse right-wing aesthetic with conservatism.

And don’t confuse Christian branding with Christian belief.

For many, “Christian” and “right-wing” have become the new version of counterculture rebellion — the same way sex, drugs, and rock & roll defined the 1960s. This is Christianity as attitude, not faith. A thin veneer of religiosity, not repentance. A “screw you” to the system, not submission to Christ.

That’s why you see far more enthusiasm for medieval Crusader imagery, “Bronze Age” masculinity, and authoritarian strongmen like Franco — and even, disturbingly, Hitler — than for evangelism, missions, family, marriage, or serving the lost. Christianity is a tool. Conservatism is a costume.

And now many are abandoning even the word “conservative,” opting for labels like “post-liberal,” “monarchist,” or outright “fascist.”

So no, Gen Z isn’t becoming more conservative. They’re becoming more reactionary, more aesthetic-driven, and more radical.

The question is: Why?

Why Gen Z is heading this direction. Deep political failure and economic pain

Gen Z believes — accurately — that the political class has failed them. They’ve grown up in an era marked by:

  • Skyrocketing inflation.
  • Crushing national debt
  • Wages that can’t compete with housing prices.
  • Student loans that feel like lifetime shackles.
  • Corruption and insider enrichment in both parties.
  • Broken schools and ideological indoctrination.
  • Pharmaceutical scandals.
  • Gas, food, and healthcare costs that rise faster than paychecks.

And while all this unfolds, what do they see? Congress happily voting to send billions overseas while Americans can’t buy a starter home. They see veterans homeless on the streets while millions of illegal migrants are welcomed into cities with little demand to assimilate, and with an undeniable share committing violent crimes. They see crime increasing, prosecutors refusing to prosecute, and cities decaying. Their frustrations aren’t imagined. They’re lived realities. And Republicans — especially the “old guard” — have offered little more than sternly worded letters and fundraising emails.

Gen Z feels abandoned. Resentment fills the vacuum.

2. Censorship and information control

Every major platform — Meta, YouTube, Twitter (before Musk), TikTok — has censored legitimate information. COVID policies. Transgender ideology. BLM. Election debates. Border statistics. The message to Gen Z was loud and clear: You will not be allowed to speak the truth. Isaiah’s ancient warning suddenly felt prophetic: “Truth has stumbled in the public square.” When truth gets outlawed, radicals flourish. Because radicals promise what institutions no longer provide: unfiltered speech and an outlet for anger.

3. A Generation that feels unheard and unprotected

Gen Z, especially young men, feel like their future has been stolen. Women are trending further left than ever and are being ushered into institutions. Young men, meanwhile, are being pushed out — academically, economically, and culturally. Even dating is becoming an impossible burden for young men in the wake of this newfound normal. Everything they see older generations enjoying en masse seems unattainable. 

The result? A desire not for reform, but for revolution.

And into this chaos walk the agitators: Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, Mamdani (a leftwing mirror image of what Fuentes represents on the right), and others who offer a simple scapegoat for complicated problems.

They tell young men: “It’s the Jews.” “Everything is a lie.” “We need a New Founding.” And the hurting, angry young men — desperate for someone to blame — listen. Nuance (truth in the details) is dead in the streets. Truthfulness is irrelevant. Someone has finally given them a target. But here’s the reality: Blaming a racial group is the same strategy used by the radical left — the very strategy that boxed young white men out of American institutions under critical race theory. Replicating the same racial grievance politics isn’t a solution. It’s a mirror image of the disease.

The hard truth: Reality requires more of you

Gen Z is being sold a victim narrative because grievance is always easier than responsibility. Grievance lets you rage. Reality forces you to grow. Grievance says: “It’s all someone else’s fault.” Reality says: “Clean up your room first.” (As Jordan Peterson put it.) The solution isn’t in racial blame or authoritarian fantasies.

The solution is in maturity, discipline, truth, and long-term thinking — not instant emotional gratification packaged as ideology. And yes, that’s a hard sell. But it’s a worthwhile, fulfilling, and the only path out of this mess. Grievance is easy. Reality is hard. But reality is the only thing that actually fixes the world.

What we are witnessing is one of the end times signs that Jesus told us we would see in the time before He returns to restore righteousness. Because Gen Z are questioning everything it is an opportunity to share the Gospel with them and as I have posted previously, if we do, we will see many come to know God and their Lord Jesus Christ.

HOW TO RAISE CHILDREN IN A WOKE CULTURE

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Mike Johnson Speaker in the USA House of Representatives talks to Family Research Council president Tony Perkins about his family life. According to Perkins most people can’t help but admire the Louisiana leader for staying focused on what matters at home — even in their whirlwind new life with him as Speaker. Most of the time, people want to know how their kids have stayed so grounded. Johnson said the secret isn’t that they’re amazing parents. The secret is knowing Who to turn to.

Mike Johson and his wife Kelly.

When confronting the woke culture, Perkins pointed out, so much of that “goes back to the parents and preparing the foundation … so that our children can be out there making a difference.” Johnson emphatically agreed. “People ask Kelly and [me] all the time … ‘How have you done this? Your kids are all really well-adjusted and great people.’ Well, there’s no secret to it,” he insisted. “We’re not extraordinary parents,” Mike wanted people to know.

“We just follow the rule book — we follow the Bible — and we teach them that [it’s] real. It is actually an instruction manual for life. And when you develop in your children a true biblical worldview and where they understand how it applies and how reliable it is, and that’s the only reliable thing there is, then it takes hold in their heart.”

Scripture lays it out pretty clearly, Johnson explained. “It reminds us that if you teach [children] that way, they will not walk away from it. And we’ve just focused on that, kept it simple, and made faith a real aspect of life woven into all seven days of the week — not just Sunday mornings. … And we’re blessed that they’re all walking with the Lord.”

He and Kelly think a lot about 3 John 1:4, “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking with the Lord.” “And ours do, by God’s grace,” he said gratefully. “We pray that they continue to do that and I hope they will.”

“WOKE” CULTURE IS AN ATTACK ON THE WAY GOD ORDERED AND DESIGNED CREATION

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The new CEO at ANSWERS IN GENESIS (AIG), Martyn Isles explains how AIG will address the issue of woke ideologies.

To be “woke” simply means to be awake. Awake to what? Awake to all the kinds of oppression in society that used to go unnoticed because they are hidden in the “system” we’re living in.

But what is the “system” which is so oppressive? Well, woke ideologies say that things like marriage are part of this system of oppression, or the gender binary, “heteronormativity,” the ethnicities of people, and so on.

They actually think that we can destroy these realities and be less oppressed as a result! But these realities are not “systemic oppressions.” These realities are just, well, reality! They are God’s creation design and order.

Thus, woke culture is an attack on creation. Hence, the answers are in Genesis, because Genesis 1–11 is about God’s design and order in creation. It specifically addresses the things that wokeness attacks.

Right now, there is a wave of compromise sweeping the Western world, including America, on all these woke issues. A generation is being taken out of the church, believing Christianity is bigoted, hateful, and oppressive because it believes in God’s creation order and design.

This woke critique is causing pastors to compromise and the world around us to reject the Christian faith.

But Genesis shows us the connection between how things are made and how we must therefore live. It answers this woke critique by describing realities—like males and females, the fact of only one “race,” marriage, family, and so forth—and then showing that these realities hold the key to understanding our world and living wisely.

Genesis shows that the very things wokeness attacks are for our good!

For the past five years, I have been teaching Australian young people about the connection between Genesis and the woke ideas they are being confronted with. This teaching always had a major impact on them and fortified them in their faith.

Seventy of these young folks have just visited the Ark Encounter to participate in our brand-new, 10-day Catalyst program. They came all the way from Australia just to be there.

Young people are hungry for answers. We’d like to build more housing so that we can run these programs year-round—the demand from around the world is huge.

But Catalyst is only the beginning.

Answers in Genesis is going to focus on equipping this generation with the answers they need to confront the woke era in many ways.

Consider the issue of identity, which is a huge concern these days. People are asking “Who am I?” with no reference to objective truth—whether that be the gospel, the Word of God, or the scientific facts about how we are made. They are left to be governed by their feelings, looking to their sinful hearts for meaning.

This identity question not only leads people into a false view of themselves and of life but is also the basis for identity politics and so much woke activism.

We are addressing this at Answers in Genesis. Right now, our exhibit designers are planning out an identity exhibit at the Creation Museum. It will be near the world-class Fearfully and Wonderfully Made pro-life exhibit.

Martyn and Ken Ham are in Australia for the “Living in Babylon” meetings in Adelaide, Perth, Melbourne, and Brisbane. If you can get along to one of thses meetins. I will be at the Adelaide Meeting next week.

When Martyn was with ACL, with many loyal supporters, they distributed one million John New Testaments to Australian households. Martyn would like for AIG to pick up the mantle and get another six million John New Testaments out. AIG will need volunteers to help with this task. If you feel called to help contact http://www.answersingenesis.org.

BIBLICAL PROPHESIED LAST DAYS APOSTASY

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Wheaton College (1860) (like so many other supposed Christian institutions) has compromised God’s Word in Genesis for a long time. This college also became soft on the LGBTQ issue and other social issues and now is being impacted (not surprisingly) by the woke culture.

Nearly 10 years ago, Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis wrote this in an article about Wheaton College (a college that has produced a science textbook teaching evolution and millions of years as fact): when a Christian institution compromises God’s Word in Genesis, this will eventually put it on a slippery slide of unbelief with the rest of Scripture and Christian doctrine.

Wheaton College was often called the ‘Harvard of Christian Schools’ due to its academic rigor being relatively comparable to the Ivy League titan. Its graduates of note range from Billy Graham to Dan Coates, former Director of National Intelligence and U.S. senator.

But now, the school in the leafy suburb west of Chicago has begun to mimic Harvard’s wokeness. Banning biblical words, teaching critical race theory, and psychologizing gender identity issues. This may not seem extreme in modern academia. But for a school that houses the works of Rev. Graham, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien, it is adrift from its orthodox, Christian moorings. What happens to these institutions happens to most of the students who attend them as they are indoctrinated in compromise on God’s Word and increasingly in woke philosophy.

What has happened at Wheaton College demonstrates the importance of the ministries: Answers in Genesis, http://www.answersingenesis.org, and Creation Ministries International, http://www.creation.com.

ELON MUSK SPEAKING GOOD SENSE

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I was surprised positively by Elon’s views on birthrate, wokeness, climate change, and even AI. Sadly, he is an evolutionist, and the fact he does not fear God is a major problem. Nevertheless, I think there is much wisdom in this video hence its inclusion on my site.

MISSION AUSTRALIA YOUTH SURVEY

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The latest Mission Australia Youth Survey has revealed that the environment tops the list of concerns for young people. More than 18,000 people, aged 15 to 19, were questioned by Mission Australia for the survey. 

51 percent of the young responders in the survey named the environment as one of the most important issues in Australia (up from 38 percent last year). One-quarter of those questioned were also “extremely or very concerned” about climate change.

More than one-third of young people said that equity and discrimination were an “important national issue”. Meanwhile, more than a quarter of the young people surveyed said that due to their gender, race/cultural background, or mental health, they had been unfairly treated in the past year.

Further, nearly 30 percent of people reported they had “high psychological distress”, while 23 percent said they felt lonely all or most of the time. And more than half of the responders have required support with their mental health.

On its website, Mission Australia states:

Our purpose

Inspired by Jesus Christ, Mission Australia exists to meet human needs and to spread the knowledge of the love of God.

We are delighted that over the past decade, more than 200,000 young people and more than 1,000 schools and organisations have participated in our Youth Survey. Our young people are our future leaders and it’s essential we hear them and act on what they tell us.”Sharon Callister, Mission Australia CEO

Despite Mission Australia’s stated Purpose, there was not one question in the survey about God or Jesus Christ, and yet the primary reason why these youth are in such poor mental health is they do not know the God who loves them enough to send His only Son to die for them. More than half have required support for their mental health.

Many Christian organisations including most of the denominational churches are no longer relevant and are certainly not living and preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Jesus tells us that this will be the state of the church prior to His second coming. In fact, Jesus says that prior to His return, the world will be like it was in the days of Noah when God poured out His wrath for the first time on an unrepentant world.

“Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.“ Luke 16:26-27

“But understand this, that in the last days, there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.” 2 Timothy 3:1-7

We need to start living eternal now knowing that Jesus is returning soon to rule and reign with the resurrected Saints on this earth for the next 1000 years. My book is available on Amazon as a paperback or ebook. I hope it will help Christians to be “last days” overcomers.