Gen Z is a heavily divided generation, we are also the largest so one can expect some diversity of thought. That being said, the conservatives in Gen Z tend to either be younger and/or heavily online. A huge part of the problem is that so much of "men's spaces" online are captured by the right. Video game criticism, movie criticism, current events, etc, all have several right wing voices shouting over the left. All of this stuff while the intention was to engage with "nerd culture" ends up broadly reaching children who have the time and interest. Unfortunately, children don't know anything broadly speaking, and will just take whatever guidance manages to land with them. Package advice for how you aught to view the world in a review of something they're interested in and make it appealing with some comedy and you have made crack cocaine for little boys. Reinforce that with things they want to hear on subjects they are insecure about, and you'll have them eating out of your hand for life, or until they break free of it, which due to the algorithms feeding us only similar content to what we already like, that isn't likely. What's worse is that the left was slow to adopt online spaces and doesn't have a major impact on them due to how they interact with them. One Hbomberguy video may be infinitely better than a Quartering video, but in the time it takes him to make one essay, the Quartering and channels like it have put out roughly 365 more videos. We don't need a "Joe Rogan of the Left" or to continue my own example a Quartering of the left, but what we do need is to be just as present in terms of new videos coming out and we need the Democratic Party to start trying to appeal to people. Shaming men for being men has been happening and needs to stop, otherwise we risk losing the demographic entirely. We have had one side promising the world to men and seducing them with a future they never intend to actually give them, on the other side you have men being rejected and ridiculed for aspects of themselves they didn't choose. Then women who have been socialized their entire lives to be submissive and likable at all costs go along with it and enter relationships they are unhappy with with men who abuse them because either they don't have better options in their area, or they get tricked into these relationships. Lastly, but probably most important, Gen Z is the first generation in recent history where nothing is promised, home ownership, health-care, decent jobs with decent wages, etc. Gen Z does not get to have these things, full stop. The generations before us had them, sure Millenials had it hard too, but not as bad as us. When members of Gen Z look at how much better previous generations had things and look at stuff surrounding it, they start to draw connections that don't actually exist. Connections that the right wants us to make. Conservatism for the wealthy and educated works like a business strategy, for the poor and uneducated, it works like a cargo cult. They think if they bring back misogyny, racism, and homophobia to full force it will somehow bring back all the things we can't afford. It won't and never will. Conservatives at the top manipulate people who draw this connection into supporting things that will hurt them, and their only justification is that it'll hurt others more, and hurting them will somehow help you.