Posted on 07/31/2023 7:29:36 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA
A popular narrative suggests young people are liberal and getting more liberal. Thus, social media buzzed when a chart surfaced in spring that seemed to suggest 12th-grade boys had become overwhelmingly conservative.
As with many Reddit posts and viral tweets, the truth was more complicated. But the numbers do say this: Twelfth-grade boys are nearly twice as likely to identify as conservative versus liberal, according to a respected federal survey of American youth.
In annual surveys over the last three years, roughly one-quarter of high school seniors self-identified as conservative or “very conservative” on the Monitoring the Future survey, a scholarly endeavor that dates to the 1970s. Only 13 percent of boys identified as liberal or very liberal in those years.
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Natural tendency to NOT be gay faggots. Which is required on the Left these days.
and castration
The young always rebel against the stupid conformity of the establishment. The establishment is now woke.
the new radicals
Good. Now keep them away from panty-waist liberals.
Well, yeah, the school administrators want to castrate them...........
No doubt democRATs see this as a failure of the publik education system.
Next up — Democrat moral panic abut this.
Good news.
Now if only real young women would follow suit (not boys in drag...)!
People don’t want to admit it but a lot of thanks goes to Andrew and Tristan Tate, and others like them who refute the Leftist propaganda of “Toxic Masculinity” used to attack men and society.
So they don’t test how many rate themselves as leftist?
There is a population of young men who will likely die young in their mothers’ basements. But I am encouraged to see a culture that desires to live the masculine life.
Andrew Tate is an influential figure in social media so it wouldn’t surprise me if a lot of younger guys are listening to him so they are resisting the brainwashing from the Left.
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