Gentle parenting is now affecting democracy ...Middle East

Among the 13- to 27-year-olds (the Generation Z cohort) who took part in the survey, more than half thought “the UK would be a better place if a strong leader was in charge who does not have to bother with parliament and elections”.

Rather than suggest they all go and live in North Korea or Equatorial Guinea and see how much they like that, or indeed to lament the teaching of history in schools, it is worth unpacking what might lie behind their curious ideas.

What many of the respondents might be indicating, however, in addition to a general disenchantment with organised politics, is something more prosaic: that their lives are blighted by having too much choice.

I recognise that this is something of a crude generalisation, but it is true, too, that young people crave direction and leadership, and there is a perceived lack of that in their lives, at home, in school, and, most certainly, in politics.

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Of course there is a world of difference between being unnerved by the suite of life’s options and wanting to live under the yoke of Kim Jong Un, and this is where the failures of our political leaders come in. Young people admire the certainty of, say, Andrew Tate or Jordan Peterson, or even Donald Trump, who vocalise disillusionment with the status quo, something to which they feel in tune.

The desire for radical change should hardly come as a surprise, therefore, and goes beyond the age-old anti-establishment inclinations of the young. This piece of research indicates a malaise that finds its expression in the ubiquity, power and influence of social media. It should worry us all that 58 per cent of Gen Z respondents said they trusted social media posts from friends as much as, and sometimes more than, they trusted mainstream journalism.

So while the headline finding – “Generation Z yearn for a dictator” – may be risible, and not sustain deeper investigation, we should, equally, resist the temptation to discount this snapshot of our younger people as irrelevant. It’s not.

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