Definitely think that on average the longer you're saturated in propaganda the worse the get so older you are the worse the critical thinking tends to be
Not necessarily, most Gen X voted for Dubya when they were zoomers' age. I think it's more, most teens and 20s nowadays don't watch mainstream media and get their information from social media like instagram or tiktok, which have a way less tightly controlled narrative than the news (especially the latter)