Posted on 09/14/2024 8:26:50 PM PDT by Red Badger
Young women are more liberal than they have been in decades, according to a Gallup analysis of more than 20 years of polling data.
Over the past few years, about 4 in 10 young women between the ages of 18 and 29 have described their political views as liberal, compared with two decades ago when about 3 in 10 identified that way.
For many young women, their liberal identity is not just a new label. The share of young women who hold liberal views on the environment, abortion, race relations and gun laws has also jumped by double digits, Gallup found.
Young women “aren’t just identifying as liberal because they like the term or they’re more comfortable with the term, or someone they respect uses the term,” said Lydia Saad, the director of U.S. social research at Gallup. “They have actually become much more liberal in their actual viewpoints.”
While it is hard to pinpoint what is making young women more liberal, they now are overwhelmingly aligned on many issues, which could make it easier for campaigns to motivate them.
Young women are already a constituency that has leaned Democratic — AP VoteCast data shows that 65% of female voters under 30 voted for Democrat Joe Biden in 2020 — but they are sometimes less reliable when it comes to turnout.
Young women began to diverge ideologically from other groups, including men between 18 and 29, women over 30 and men over 30, during Democrat Barack Obama‘s presidency. That trend appears to have accelerated more recently.
The change in young women’s political identification is happening across the board, Gallup found, rather than being propelled by a specific subgroup.
Taylor Swift’s endorsement Tuesday of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, after her debate against Trump, illustrated one of the issues where young women have moved to the left. In Swift’s Instagram announcing the endorsement praised Harris and running mate Tim Walz for championing infanticide.
The Gallup analysis found that since the Obama era, young women have become nearly 20 percentage points more likely to support broad abortion rights. There was a roughly similar increase in the share of young women who said protection of the environment should be prioritized over economic growth and in the share of young women who say gun laws should be stricter.
Now, Saad said, solid majorities of young women hold liberal views on issues such as abortion, the environment, and gun laws.
“You’ve got supermajorities of women holding these views,” she said.
Youtube is loaded with videos of sobbing young women who can’t understand why men won’t approach them. These foolish and self-absorbed women demand things MEN NO LONGER WILL ACCEPT AS REASONABLE. Good men are being treated horribly by these mentally unbalanced females. Men are walking away. They see these kooky women as not worth wasting time trying to please.
It is astonishing the mind games these women play.
Check out the the videos of crying women who divorced and now realize they were stupid to leave a “good man.”
This growing trend is now referred to as MGTOW - (translation) “Men Going Their Own Way.”
They hold whatever views the TV tells them are safe to hold. Harris’s support is a mile wide and an inch deep.
I think they’ve already reach childless cat lady status god knows what they will be in 30-40 years
It’s kind of what happens when young women are told men are the devils and you don’t need one in your life, you become mentally unstable
Turns out men and women need each other in stable relationships to be happy and successful
No civilization can survive the mass whoredom of its women.
They’re the same kind of drunk side-walk floosies who think they’re 10s and they BF needs to be 6’2” and make mid 6 figures.
“or someone they respect uses the term”
There you are:
Airhead peer pressure.
Mush brains full of sound bites and social masturbation.
Is the abortion issue the main reason?
Mostly................
They are divorced from reality.
This just proves that the 19th amendment was a mistake and needs to be repealed.
Obviously.
Just ask Rome.
That’s absolutely correct.
do they want to live in a collectivist society where the state is primary
just so they can get abortions?
how many freedoms are they willing to give up to keep access to abortions?
Are you willing to surrender our constitution just so we can argue over abortion?
The irony is they're not.
Gen-Z is having less pre-marital recreational sex than any generation has for the past 60 years.
As far as sexual activity goes, they're practically Puritans.
You can ask the same of pro-lifers.
How many freedoms are we willing to give up in our quixotic crusade to stop Shaniqua and Ty'quisha from aborting their unwanted babies?
Society coddles them. Government protects and provides for them. Schools praise them. Entertainment media celebrates them. Social media applifies them. Men pedestalize them.
A big reason men are distancing themselves from them. Liberal women are especially bad girlfriends and wives.
Puritan women didn't publicly strip naked for Only Fans audiences.
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