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High school boys are trending conservative
The Hill ^ | 7/31/23 | DANIEL DE VISÉ

Posted on 07/31/2023 7:29:55 AM PDT by JonPreston

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.

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Boys, no mention of girls

Excellent news. Now keep these boys away from Neoconservatives, and all shades of Bush, Rove and Fox news. Steer them toward nationalism and populism and we have a shot.

1 posted on 07/31/2023 7:29:55 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: JonPreston

Duplicate.

19 seconds


2 posted on 07/31/2023 7:33:21 AM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (I owe, I owe, it's off to work I go ...)
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To: JonPreston

Beat you by 19 seconds. Watching War Room, huh?


3 posted on 07/31/2023 7:33:25 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (The Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself. )
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To: JonPreston

So ... they’re racists. Obviously.


4 posted on 07/31/2023 7:33:49 AM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: JonPreston

...boys start out conservative and then are bent leftward by Lib parents (their mothers) and social pressure. Girls however, are nearly all liberal and only move rightward after they are married (which is few these days).


5 posted on 07/31/2023 7:34:34 AM PDT by JJBookman (Democrats = Party of big babies!)
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To: JonPreston

My 2 definitely are.


6 posted on 07/31/2023 7:36:33 AM PDT by stevio (Fight until you die.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

yes :) you win! I’ll ask to have mine taken down.


7 posted on 07/31/2023 7:37:56 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston

Girls are on OnlyFans.


8 posted on 07/31/2023 7:39:19 AM PDT by EEGator
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Beat you by 19 seconds. Watching War Room, huh?

Why are ya'll reading The Hill?............ 🤦‍♂️

9 posted on 07/31/2023 7:39:52 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: JonPreston

Between the Bud Lite fiasco and all the fake transtesticle stuff going on these days it certainly makes sense to not identify with it. Plus the girls of that age often tend to like all the fake sex change crap, blue, orange, green or rainbow hair, lots of tat and fat, abortion and other things that make many young men go ‘no thanks.’


10 posted on 07/31/2023 7:42:01 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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The left has become so extreme this doesn’t surprise me. We’re still bombarding girls with the same ‘empowerment’ message saturated with toxic feminism.

Boys will be boys, this trans crap isn’t going to sit well with them...they’ll rebel against the State dictated narrative.

The pendulum swings...


11 posted on 07/31/2023 7:46:04 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: JonPreston

Of course they are.


12 posted on 07/31/2023 7:48:34 AM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: JonPreston

Wait until the WEF made famine hits and more draconian lockdowns come. Sadly, it will be too late. Some people just need to get burned before waking up.


13 posted on 07/31/2023 7:52:21 AM PDT by dragonblustar (As in the days of Noah….)
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To: JonPreston

My son will be in 12th grade next year and from the conversations I have with him and about his friends I can agree this is happening. My son used to skew more liberal but lately he is really beginning to see the light. He comes to me with his observations about politics and world events and how the press portrays things. He also told me just based on gas prices alone he will vote for Trump. Gas prices are huge with teenaged boys.


15 posted on 07/31/2023 7:53:30 AM PDT by RubyR
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To: JonPreston

Ah, the rebelliousness of youth. I was the same when I was young -- whatever the establishment believed, I believed the opposite.

Now that the establishment is is liberal and leftist, what do you expect young rebels to think?

16 posted on 07/31/2023 7:54:19 AM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: Fido969

The wokesters are anti-men.

They always have been, but they’ve taken off their masks.

Any informed male (who is not self loathing) has to be conservative.


17 posted on 07/31/2023 7:54:24 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: JonPreston

This generation of boys have been attacked their whole life by almost all institutions. From schools, family and criminal court systems, businesses, churches, and advertisements they have been be-little’d their whole life. Many have been raised by single moms. The establishment institutions are almost all liberal. Is it any wonder they join the opposition?


18 posted on 07/31/2023 7:55:16 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: campaignPete R-CT
Duplicate. 19 seconds

We obviously need a 19 second waiting period for posting.

=)

19 posted on 07/31/2023 7:57:01 AM PDT by Tai_Chung
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To: JonPreston

True my nephew is one


20 posted on 07/31/2023 7:58:19 AM PDT by toddausauras (Trump Lake 2024....Go down swinging!)
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