They aren’t right wing, at the global level.

This story is a follow-up to reports that the “Gen-Z” rebellion in Mexico in particular seems to mostly consist of older people, like Gen X and Boomers.

So, it’s an astroturf movement by the right.

Mexico does have a higher proportion of conservatives in Gen Z than any other demographic, but they’re still not a majority.

The reason that is, is because of our proximity to the US and its huge propaganda machine as well as concerted efforts by our media to paint conservatism as the real principled rebellion yadda yadda.

This has also been largely successful due to morena’s milquetoast succdem fence-sitting bullshit giving plenty of ammunition to the propagandists regarding issues which are important to young people, such as housing, reasonable working hours, quality public services (especially transportation) and a livable wage, most of which have been addressed with the standard “we can’t fix it unless we make sure the private sector can gouge us for it”. The issues of organized crime and their stranglehold on local economic activity (with near total impunity) have been better addressed than they were during Calderon’s term, but they’re still full of half measures at the best of times and young people are legitimately tired of the glacial pace of this administration.

There comes a point where cautious incrementalism reveals itself as stalling, darnos atole con el dedo, so to speak. That’s the reason the left wing protests a week prior were more succesful but they were just as much a protest against the US as they were about discontent with the Mexican government.