The Ideological Split in Gen Z

5/28/2025

Research is showing a split among Gen Z voters. ¹The “older” Gen Z, ages 25-29, are progressive, while the “young” Gen Z, ages 18-24, are not as much. Young Gen Z appears to be abandoning the Democratic party for status as Independents. They also seem to be leaning more right than their older cohorts, who have been voting blue. This goes to the heart of my beef with statisticians putting people in random generational categories. There are real reasons why generations behave as they do, generational markers via the outer planets. I’ve reviewed these differences in earlier pieces regarding the Boomers, Gen-X, Gen-Y, and the millennials. See the links below to earlier articles I’ve written on the subject.

The problem with Gen Z’s split is that they aren’t the same generation. The split statisticians have identified between these two groups is where astrology diverges, proving my long-standing point that the outer planets define generations. So, let’s look at and deconstruct the differences between these two groups from a real generational perspective and explain why one group leans blue and the other has become red-curious.

In 1995, Pluto moved from Scorpio to Sagittarius. This is the start of several transitional years between the Millennials and Gen Z. Pluto in Scorpio and Neptune/Uranus in Capricorn define the Millennials. The Uranus/Neptune conjunction in Capricorn is a complicated signature representing an interest in the past, control, and achievement. Still, Neptune represents confusion, and Uranus represents breaking from, rebelling against, convention. Some important things to understand about this metaphor are the break-up of the Soviet Union, the embrace of Neoliberalism, and the New World Order characterized by the late 1980s to mid-1990s. During this period, parents overscheduled their kids, putting them in endless after-school programs and controlling every aspect of their lives.

I’ve talked to many Millennials. The over-zealous parenting of the period where children were thought to be little sponges and the parental job was to make them uber-ambitious competitors that would one day dominate their careers is a