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- Yesterday10 min
Introducing The Social Equation: Why Politics Feels Personal for Gen Z | TDG Fellowship
This week we bring you a special episode from J'Mariana Douglas, one of our 2026 Podcast Fellows, exploring why politics feels increasingly personal, controversial, and complicated. Drawing on Naomi Cahn’s Red Families vs. Blue Families, Douglas explains how party labels function like teams and shape reactions to hot-button issues such as abortion, gun control, and climate change, especially when linked to morality. Gen Z is highlighted through student perspectives: one recounts a family conflict over deportation following Trump’s second inauguration and stricter immigration enforcement, and another describes avoiding conversations across political differences as even basic shared facts feel disputed. Douglas argues that withdrawing from dialogue threatens a system built on free speech and collaboration, and that Gen Z’s trend-driven subcultures and social-media immersion accelerate politics becoming identity. 00:00 Democracy Group Intro 00:23 Meet The Social Equation 00:29 Why Politics Feels Personal 01:03 Parties Morality And Polarization 02:54 Why Gen Z Stands Out 03:00 Student Story Immigration Divide 04:33 Avoiding Political Conversations 06:07 The Social Equation Explained 06:30 Team Colors Thought Experiment 07:23 Gen Z Trends Subcultures Identity 08:48 Social Media Makes Politics Identity 09:49 Wrap Up And Next Episode Know a student interested in democracy and podcasts? Send them over to our fellowship to apply: https://www.democracygroup.org/fellowship Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
- 6 days ago48 min
Unsticking Congress: Maya Kornberg | Future Hindsight
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- 1 weeks ago40 min
Dr. Matthew Taylor on the Christian Nationalist Threat to Democracy, Part 1 | New Faces of Democracy
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- 1 weeks ago42 min
The Unfinished Fight for Transgender Freedom | The Context
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- 2 weeks ago53 min
Why The Midterms Will Be Disappointing | The Politics Guys
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- 2 weeks ago42 min
Why We Viscerally Resist Talking to the Other Side – Mónica Guzmán | Outrage Overload
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- 3 weeks ago31 min
What Are the Rules and Procedures to SAVE America? | Politics in Question
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- 3 weeks ago1h 10m
The Exhausted Majority: Jason Mangone of More in Common on Hidden Tribes, the Perception Gap, and What's Actually Pulling Us Apart | Talkin Politics & Religion
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