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Though conservatives pay more attention “to the growing problems faced by boys and men,” he continues, their agenda is equally unhelpful. They “fuel male grievances for political gain, which simply creates more anger and discontent.” They “overweight the importance of biological differences for gender roles.” And they see solutions “as lying in the past rather than the future, in the form of a restoration of traditional economic relations between male providers and female carers” rather than “helping men adapt to the new world.”

I am a conservative old man. Quite honestly, I don’t fit in the corporate world any longer. I highly doubt that if I went back to college that I would fit in. I often have grievances with leftists at church. I disagree with 100% of Democrats and about 90% of the GOP. I do get along with my family and a small, very select group of friends.

I have watched individual freedom and liberty erode over my entire lifetime. My anger and disconnect is not fueled by a conservative agenda, at least none implemented by government because there is about zero that is conservative in government. It is fueled by progressive leftists. I have no desire to adapt to a new world. Simply give me freedom and leave me the eff alone.

Conservatives...see solutions “as lying in the past rather than the future, in the form of a restoration of traditional economic relations between male providers and female carers” rather than “helping men adapt to the new world (emphasis added).”

Men have adapted to the "new world" pretty well. I saw the little DoodleBobs' births (that was unheard of in the 60s), I do housework (I hate folding laundry though), and I changed diapers.

Now, I suspect that what they REALLY mean by "helping men adapt to the new world" is, more accurately, "get used to this wokey statist nonsense and STFU." What they REALLY want, is for us to accept the notions of reassignment surgery at 5 years old is good, lockdowns are good, pandemic cash is good, guns and self-defense are bad, parents shouldn't complain to the school boards, abortion is a reproductive right, divorce is good, and opening the door for a woman is patriarchy.

Men are wired to defend, and to be warriors. This nonsense naturally triggers a primal response. The distortion between that warrior response and the zeitgeist telling men to STFU, will cause men of lesser stock to retreat and wither.

Which is what they want.

They “fuel male grievances for political gain, which simply creates more anger and discontent.”

What's ironic is that the author probably doesn't see the parallels to the race-card industry fueling grievances and creating anger and discontent. I'm sure she'd say, "Oh, that's different."

‘Though conservatives pay more attention “to the growing problems faced by boys and men,” he continues, their agenda is equally unhelpful. They “fuel male grievances for POLITICAL GAIN’

Always accuse your enemy of doing what you in fact, do. They always assign political gain to anything that Conservatives want/do. And their sheeple believe it as it is promoted as fact by the Media.

I tell my nieces and nephews and a lot of other younger people that I am “a liberal from 20 years ago”.

That’s not exactly true but:

I want a secure border.
I want to stay out of wars of choice.
I am deeply suspicious of the 3 letter agencies.
I am deeply suspicious of a lot of large corporations.
I distrust the government.
I am deeply suspicious of the military.
I am for personal freedom.
I am for fair trade rather than pure free trade.
I want to preserve/bring back manufacturing.
I am for energy independence.
I STAUNCHLY favor freedom of speech.

ALL of these get you called a flaming right winger/nazi/hatemonger etc today. These were all either “liberal” or at least bipartisan positions my entire life growing up and until I was at least 30 if not 40 (and I was born in the 70s).

We haven’t changed - the Left has changed. It has become really radical. We’re pretty much the same as we always were.