Our NBC News Decision Desk poll asked Gen Z adults (18-29 years old) what they consider important to a successful life. The combination of gender and politics produced two very different sets of priorities:
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Wild and sad that only 6 percent of the women for harris want to be married and have kids. And LOL that having emotional stability was bottom 3 from the men for trump.

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Priority at that stage in life. They want financial stability and an emotionally stable, supportive partner as a prerequisite, so they can have a rewarding, healthy family!
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I don’t know how the question was phrased, but the header says definition for a successful life not what do you want today
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Emotional stability is basically a given so it's not even an issue worth considering. In contrast, for heavily medicated Democrat women, it's a pretty serious issue that is worth considering.
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It's a list of priorities, not an absolute. More than that want to be married, they just don't see it as a top 3 priority among those subjects. With that said, incredible poll that truly highlights the divide in American society.
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Imagine prioritizing kids before prioritizing financial stability. Growing up in poverty sucks and then everyone in poverty gets shamed for having kids.
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Men don’t worry about emotional stability because it is their default. Nobody is in a car making a video screaming at the camera. Those are libtard white women. Guys are too busy working and building. We are the ones holding the country together while women melt down.
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Please explain what "emotional stability" is.
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It's also sad that men for trump want kids but don't want to be married. Sounds like a recipe for increased single parent households and complaints about child support payments.
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Learn the difference between priorities and wants. Why would a bunch of 18-29 women prioritize having kids? It's too damn expensive. They want to wait until later in life to make it a priority and that's perfect reasonable and rational under our current societal dynamics.
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We are conservative in our emotions already. It is a characteristic of being conservative. Therefore prioritizing it is not necessary. It would easily go to the bottom of the list.
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Its only 20% of women who voted for Trump that want to he married. Maybe your bums are the problem 🤣🤣
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I Think they go together, if men actually wanted to be fathers, providing emotional stability (which was last in their priority) more women would want to have children
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Eh, I’d kinda prefer they didn’t reproduce. The left has a nice habit of thinking themselves out of fertility.
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That is not the question that was asked. Wild and sad that you can't read but you somehow manage to post on the internet.
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They already have emotional stability. Look at the data on mental illness and bipolar disorder. Conservative men have the lowest rates. Liberal women have the highest rates.
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The emotional stability low number would reflect they don't feel unstable currently.
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Wanting emotional stability in the future means you don’t think you have it now.
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Only 26% for women for Trump
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And 10% of men who voted for Harris.
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We all know that because we've met men who voted for Trump
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“Important to personal definition of success” doesn’t mean they don’t want to do/have those things
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Even more sad that men have no interest in emotional stability. Explains all the men murdering children in school shootings
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Obviously people like you will twist that to mean they want to be emotionally unhealthy when it actually means they are just more willing to make emotional sacrifices.
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Why is that bad? Democrats won’t exist in 50 years.
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Conservative men are the most emotionally stable people group.