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Typical response "they are being indoctrinated" instead of thinking that maybe they need to actually do things that appeal to their voter base, It's so ass backwards it's astonishing. Just the language used alone is all wrong, young voters aren't the issue, the issue is your ability to appeal to them.
In my admittedly limited and likely biased experience, progressives and further left tend to be more critical in the way they approach authority figures. The GOP is just pissed they can't as easily indoctrinate younger generations into fighting against their own interests.
I've heard it said several times, the GOP tends to say the opposite of what they mean. "college kids are being indoctrinated" = "umm, guys, we're having a hard time indoctrinating the college kids..."
This is the actual point. The GOP is bent out of shape at the moment, not only because the kids want some semblance of economic justice and vote accordingly, but also because higher education accreditors are low key threatening to withdraw accreditation from institutions (like the New College of Florida) in states where GOP governors are stripping faculty of academic freedom and imposing political points of view in the classroom.
So, of course, politicians like DeSantis who depend on culture war bullshit for support are suing over the higher education accreditation system, arguing that accreditation as a gateway to Federal funding should be in the hands of state departments of education. See: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2023/06/23/desantis-sues-biden-administration-over-accreditation
So just to be clear what is going on: the "free market / free speech" GOP is suing to impose a state takeover of higher education standards so that they can impose political content in the classroom ("the happy, happy slaves learned valuable skills in Ole' Dixie, yay!"). That is straight up Orwellian.
This is reason #1001 as to why we need to get out and vote.