Good News Young Americans Detest BOTH Political Parties
Gallup’s June 2024 poll reveals 45% of Americans now independents, with millennials (54%) and Gen Zers (56%) leading the shift—56% view Democrats unfavorably, 62% Republicans, rejecting both parties’ overlapping support for government force and monetary policy. Meanwhile, Trump’s "Board of Peace" for Gaza excludes Palestinians, includes war criminal Tony Blair, and faces Netanyahu’s objections, signaling authoritarian overreach. His leaked tariff threats on Macron’s wines further expose a pattern of undermining liberty, deepening young Americans’ distrust of partisan power grabs. [Automatically generated summary]
Hello, everybody, and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report.
With us today, we have Daniel McAdams, our co-host.
Daniel, good to see you this morning.
Good morning, Dr. Paul.
How are you this morning?
Doing well.
Thank you.
We have an interesting thing.
I know we use, we both use them, and we get information from polling.
It's not proof of anything, but it gives you hints and they're entertaining.
And even I admit that you have a little bit more interest in it, but I like them.
I like them to go ahead.
Only when they go our way.
Oh, yeah.
We're always looking.
Yeah, if we run out of good things on what's really happening, then we have to look at the poll.
Oh, that was a fudge polling.
We rigged it.
So anyway, this so-called non-rigged poll was something we looked at because I think most people know that I have identified strongly on purpose and was very grateful that the message of liberty was acceptable to young people.
And I think that's very important, you know.
And this poll represented the headline coming from Wall Street Journal.
A majority of young voters now reject both parties.
Don't you think we could call that good news?
I mean, we don't brag about either one of them, but we look for things that each party have some good people, good ideas, and good things, but the momentum seems to keep going in the same old direction, more government and the rest.
But now they say that the young people are frustrated.
And I think that's what has to be dealt with.
And that's what I enjoyed discussing with young people.
Why are they frustrated?
And I was always pleased that at least I talked myself into believing that they responded favorably to some very, very important issue like anti-war.
I don't believe you kids should have to go to war unless our country's threatened and you volunteer.
You know, those kind of things were very popular.
And yet, yet political parties, you know, they have these functions that are different, opinions are different.
But really, the use of government force, the use of the funny money system, the monetary system, the acceptance of deficit, all these things, you know, how many times have we said both parties are at fault there?
And yet, look at now how they're able to take those issues.
And whether it's the Democrats bashing the Republicans or the Republicans doing it to them, they're pretty successful in appealing to the voters.
So in this case, what I think the polling is doing is is it really working?
And it looks like the frustration of young people is very real.
And I think our goal was, at least subtly for me, I always think that that is the goal, changing people's opinion, you know, and getting support, thinking that is much more important than how good you are at raising money to campaign and votes something, where at times those are all important, but it doesn't prove as much as the prevailing attitude about the people.
And of course, one beef I've had for years has been the prevailing value of the young people or the older group too.
And that is what they've gotten out of the universities.
When you look at the social things that have come out of there, the monetary ideas, foreign policy, this is all, you know, it didn't come from the leader of the party.
The party was able to use these things that set the stage.
Even you could throw George Soros into that stuff of how they influence people and accept these things.
But I believe, and I believe a lot of other people now are saying that we live in special times, major changes.
That system was not going to be permanent.
It's been tried before, usually fails, usually fails in bankruptcy and the destruction of the liberty that they pretended they were protected.
So I think we live in an interesting time, but also very dangerous.
Yeah, I think the death knell of the old system is there.
You know, as you say, you raise money, you do this, and you do that.
I think that's coming to an end.
And I think the younger generation is behind that.
Now, this is from the New Yorker.
This is a column they have called The Intelligence Series.
And a majority of young voters now reject both parties.
If you go back to that first one, which is backwards, this is a Gallup poll that they took earlier this month, Dr. Paul.
It says the U.S. political system is currently experiencing previously unimaginable levels of partisan and ideological polarization.
At the same time, public disaffiliation with both major parties is reaching historic highs.
Now, a couple of numbers to remember.
So, Gallup's been conducting large sample polls of partisan self-identification since the 80s.
And now they are showing that 45% of Americans consider themselves independents.
So, remember that number: 45% are independent.
And the ones that identify as Democrats and Republicans are each around 27%.
So, low party affiliation anyway.
But if you go to that next clip, here's where it gets interesting.
But now, independent self-identification is reaching levels that suggest something else is going on, and the trends may be intensifying.
Gallup shows 54% of millennials and 56% of Gen Zers are now calling themselves independents.
They go on to clarify that younger voters generally tend to be not settled in political parties.
But I mean, millennials, you're already looking at people in their 30s or so, 40s, what have you.
But anyway, so from 45 in the average population to a whopping 54 and 56 percent of younger people who do not identify with any political party, and that's a big shift.
And it says, I think a lot of things about the future.
You know, it's hard to say exactly what motivates each individual to come up with that opinion, but I think that it's mostly on rejection of what they're getting, the failure of the system.
And the system is made up of two parties, maybe, and generally speak, generally speaking, but really philosophically, things are very similar.
I mean, they're using government, government force.
And it's a rejection of that rather than they're coming together, which is what my interest is in, bringing people together of not like-mindedness, but differences, of people who are different, who differ socially, racial, and all these things where there's a difference in bringing people together.
And of course, a long time ago, I became convinced, still am convinced, that people can come together if they really understand liberty because it's self-centered.
It isn't like you're sacrificing your life to do this.
What you're doing is you're arguing the case just the way they argue military.
We're doing this to have national security and save your freedom and all.
But I think philosophically, if people know and understand what the benefits are when they understand what freedom is all about and free markets and sound money, I mean, it is such, it is, to me, it's such a blessing that's available.
And when you think of the brilliance of the engineers and the scientists of today's age, and yet this is the issue that I'm talking about is 3,000 years old, they understood some of the basic principles of morality.
They talked about it even before the 10 commandments.
There was an instinct for this.
And what I want individuals to do is realize they want to come together for something very, very positive instead of unifying people to all have the same type of uniform on to get to come together because I respect you.
Do what you want.
Just don't hurt me.
Just don't bug me.
Don't steal from me.
And don't kill me and do those things.
And it's so clearly simple as far as I'm concerned.
Maybe I'm oversimplifying it.
But I'll tell you one thing.
I would vouch for the young people that they do have an understanding.
And the majority, when they understand that, they'd be on our side.
I'm hoping this poll is encouraging us to continue to send a message out of liberty.
And I think you could probably trace the disidentification with political parties, at least in our sort of current era, back to your two presidential campaigns.
Because as you discovered, when you went to campuses of universities that were more liberal, you found that you got a very strong reception, as you did with more conservative.
So I think now those would have been probably millennials at the time, first-time voters, early-time voters, who recognized, hey, I didn't really, I don't really feel like I'm a Republican, but I love what this guy's saying.
I don't care.
I'll take him.
I'll back him up.
And I think probably what you saw is a lot of that mentality, a lot of these young voters, they did tend to go toward Trump.
And the statistics are there for young people.
There was a shift toward Trump in this most recent elections.
And I think Trump understood.
Maybe he was looking at your campaigns pretty well, but he was not Mr. Republican.
He was not, I'm the Republican Party.
He was, I'm someone different.
I'm not really heavily party.
In fact, the party hated him.
They've always hated him, you know, the Stalwarts of the party.
So he projected himself, presented himself as a non-party Republican doing things that are important, you know, making America wealthy, no more wars, all of these sorts of things.
But you're seeing this massive shift now where there's a huge disappointment.
And we've talked about it on the show many times.
Among younger voters, the disappointment in President Trump is much higher than with the average population.
So they did think that maybe Trump was going to be an extension of the Ron Paul world where he actually meant what he said.
And they're finding out that they got sold a bill of goods.
And then they're saying a pox on both houses, which is good.
Yeah, and that made us hopeful that he truly was on that path and that would gather in the support.
And that probably did contribute to some of the support that he had.
But now it's getting a little messier because people are starting to recognize that all these promises of this perfection, peace and prosperity, no more wars, the whole thing.
To me, the only way I can describe it is it's a mess.
And so the good and the bad is all mixed in there.
And you don't get either one of them.
You just end up with a mess.
And I think it's harder for young people to sort this out because they get exposed.
How are they going to get this business of economics straight?
Go to an ivy leach school and ask a question about Austrian economics.
You flunk, you go, hey, well, you're looking to a heathen.
You want to know about the gold standard, things like that.
But I think we're certainly in a change that is favorable.
And here's one other thing from the article.
If you go to that last clip from this article, a November of 2025 survey of millennials and Gen Zers by researchers at the University of Chicago showed that 56% of respondents have an unfavorable opinion of the Democratic Party, and 62 felt the same way about the GOP.
So not only did they not identify with parties, Dr. Paul, they are actually physically repulsed by both parties.
Just as important, these unhappy campers don't seem to be pining.
This is important, actually.
They don't seem to be pining for some moderate middle policy stances.
And that's something you've always pointed out.
This can't we all get along means you give up your principles.
They're saying, no, we're not interested in this mushy middle at all.
Yeah, I think it's even though it's well-intended, the motivation is there.
But I think when they're coming together, they have to sacrifice something they really believe in.
And I think they start off badly, even though I would say their motivations are, you know, very good, but that doesn't solve problems.
You know, the ideas have to be correct.
And you're seeing the concerns of the younger people.
And it's in the article.
I didn't clip it, but it's affordability.
That's the issue we've talked about here.
Things you just simply can't afford things that you were able to afford if you're a working person now.
The average age of getting your first house is now in the 40s.
Good luck with that, starting a family at that point.
And the other one is that was in the article, too, not specifically said this way, but foreign policy hypocrisy, preaching about the rule of laws, preaching about our Western democratic values.
In the meantime, there's a genocide going on in Gaza that none of the politicians in the United States have the courage to speak out on.
So I think younger generation, we know this very well, they tend to spot hypocrisy very easily.
That's right.
Easier than the older generation.
So I don't know what the future brings.
You know, what that means.
Does it mean that they will check out of the system and not be voters at all?
Will there be a new political party that arises?
There's a lot of problems with creating a new political party.
It's probably 50-50 on whether it gets better or worse, because very often it gets worse because, and you can even hear it today, the ones who are successful, they're not the ones who say, you know, we're spending too much money on food stamps.
What do you mean, food stamps?
Oh, yeah, for the military-industrial complex, but they don't understand all that.
So I think that people will respond in a negative way, probably just as much as the other way.
But one thing for sure, if we don't present the case for solving our problems through a course of understanding what liberty is all about and the personal satisfaction and the benefits of it.
See, the one statistic that I firmly believe that freer our country is, the wealthier the country is and the more peace there is.
Now, how can they turn that down?
Board Peace Initiative00:07:10
Yeah.
And sometimes they say, well, I'm having trouble and the government has to help me.
Well, there's a good answer for that.
And it's not that complex.
Yeah, absolutely.
Because the government usually makes things worse.
Yeah, they do for sure.
I do want to shout out to Conray Wells, who kicked in $20 saying, I became a Ron Paul libertarian a decade ago, and it was Dr. Paul's consistent belief in peace and liberty, reflected in his belief in the prince of peace, that drew me to be libertarian and anti-war.
So that's a good little story there.
Well, our second story, switching gears here a little bit, is President Trump's board of peace for the Gaza situation.
Now, it was part of his 20-point plan.
I don't know how well it's understood.
Maybe it's just me, Dr. Paul.
I don't understand what he's doing, but nevertheless, this is from our friends at antiwar.com.
Trump invites Putin to join the Gaza Board of Peace.
Well, that headline makes sense because Russia is an important player, regardless of how you feel about the country or its leader.
But Russia and Israel are the latest government's asked to join President Donald Trump's expanding Board of Peace, the body he says will implement his plan for Gaza and mediate conflicts worldwide.
So it almost sounds like a new kind of UN that Trump will be in charge of.
Leave it up.
I'm going to read one more sentence from that, if you don't mind.
Thanks.
Israel has been invited, but the office of Prime Minister Netanyahu has offered no comment as to whether it will participate.
I don't know.
I don't have a sense of what this is going to be.
Maybe an alternative UN that we run.
You know, one of the biggest controversies in the world today is Palestine and Gaza.
And yet, when you read this, it's signaling out the Palestinians, but they're doing it to give them a negative.
They're putting in the back of the room or in a closet.
I don't even know if they'll let anybody even come.
So that from the beginning, it can't work because it's the biggest problem.
What they ought to do is look at a little history about when you have the most trouble.
And that's when the outsiders come in.
We're going to tell these two or three or four different groups of people how you're going to get along rather than just let them live together and become their customers and their friends and do something with them.
And no, they're not going to do that.
What they want to do is have a kingline to tell them what to do.
And my first word that came to me when I was reading this, this is a big joke.
This is a joke to me to think that you're going to have a boy.
Sounds good.
And but they, oh, yeah, I didn't tell you.
They did call me.
The board of peace.
That would be a real board of peace.
Anyway, but you mentioned it already, but the whole thing, Trump is really admitting it.
He's going to run it.
He's going to he not only that, what?
He's going to be president of Venezuela.
Yeah, acting president, acting president.
Now, if he can make this organized big enough, he can be king of the new United Nations.
I know you were halfway joking, but it's actually all you need to know.
The fact that they didn't ask you to join the Board of Peace, and they did ask Tony Blair, who is a war criminal.
You don't have any blood on your hands, Dr. Paul, but Tony Blair has got gallons and gallons of blood, and he's going to be on it.
So that does tell you everything you need to know.
But the next clip there, this is from the anti-war article, is a three-tier structure created to supervise Gaza's demilitarization and reconstruction under a 20-point plan that Trump unveiled last September, chaired by the former president.
It would elevate U.S. and European figures such as Marco Rubio and Tony Blair.
And here's the thing you just said, Dr. Paul: relegating Palestinian representatives to the municipal level.
So essentially, they're absolutely marginalized in the process, whereas this is actually where they live.
This is their place of living.
They're going to be somehow overseen by Tony Blair or something.
Hell, but you see the few names they pit that are American citizens in our government.
They're all the necons.
Yeah, all neocons.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I tell you where it's going.
Yeah.
The only perhaps bright spot in a way is that Netanyahu and his people are so recalcitrant that if there's any push, they may start flipping out.
And actually, this next clip says Netanyahu's office subsequently said the announcement of the Gaza Executive Board, if you can put that up, the body subordinate to the Board of Peace was not coordinated with Israel and ran contrary to government policy.
They objected to the board's composition.
So, which is interesting because if Israel wants to push back against us and say we don't want it, there might actually finally be some sort of a face-off between Trump's ego on one hand and the inability of Israel to do any sort of reasonable thing to move toward peace.
I would say that's hope so, but I'm very, I'm very doubtful.
But that's hope.
That's hope, exactly.
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That's all I'm going to say right now before I kick it back over to you, Dr. Paul.
Yes, and I'm going to finish this by getting a quote out of this article that we were looking at.
And to make the point that diplomacy is very important.
That's just treating people decently.
But this said, I think it's, you know, from Trump.
And Trump responded, oh, did he say that?
Well, nobody wants him because he's going to be out of office very soon.
So, you know, that's all right.
What I'll do is if they feel hostile, I'll put a 200% tariff on his wines and champagnes and he'll join.
But that doesn't have to joy.
But if he said that, you'll probably be giving him into me a little bit of differently.
But he actually did say that.
But as you know, he's going to be out of office in a few months.
Messing with Liberty00:02:11
So that's not very adult, do you think?
Poor old Macron.
He also leaked Macron's private text message to him.
And it was so unbelievably sycophantic, it's pathetic.
So Trump, Trump knows how to semect people that are trying to kiss off.
But they're saying, you know, now you're going a little bit too far when you start messing around with our wine.
Yeah, exactly.
And that should be interpreted as messing around with our liberty and our getting along with people.
All these things are important.
They're pretending to solve, but they're using an authoritarian approach to do that.
They want a king and authoritarian rules and regulations and people in charge, academically speaking from our universities on up and all the organization, political organization.
So it's all there.
There's not much talk about what we need is a better understanding of what personal liberty is all about.
And listen to some of the warnings our founders gave us because I think Adam said, you know, we're giving you a republic, but if you can keep it, And that was his biggest worry: that the people would become immoral and they wouldn't keep it the document, which goes to show the document doesn't give you the liberty, it might define it, but morality comes from individuals.
And I think they have to deal with the subject which has been around for 3,000 years, and that's natural law.
Because I think right and wrong, and good and evil, and the killing going on, I did recognize in early years it may be very much very messy and awkwardly, but it has been alone for a long time.
But that is not where we start here.
It's threats and innuendos.
And it just think that they're trying to start a world war over Greenland.
Why don't they leave us alone?
Anyway, I want to thank everybody for turning in today to the Liberty Report.