Posted on 06/03/2025 6:52:50 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Risk tolerance, the River, and why Democrats struggle with young men
Carrie Levande asks:
"SBSQ submission: as you noted in Risky Business, the Democrats’ groupthink around protecting Biden is emblematic of their Village tendencies. Lately I’ve been feeling like a lot of the country’s rejection of the Democratic Party can be traced back to their Village-ness: seeming “fake”, the groupthink they foster in cultural institutions and the media, wokeness (and the forces that created it), generally being insufferable.
I’m curious your take on viewing today’s political climate through the village/river lens. Do you think the rise of trump and tech billionaires represents an appetite for more Riverian spirit from the electorate? Are political parties by nature Villages that repel Riverians? Are Riverians who want to run for office inherently inclined to do so in a somewhat authoritarian way, and would they have any chance of success through conventional party pathways and norms?"
I know it might not seem related at first, Carrie, but I’m thinking about your question in the context of the debate Democrats are having about how to win back young men. (Gen Z men actually voted majority Trump last year.) One Democratic group, for instance, recently proposed a $20 million initiative called “Speaking With American Men”. Adding fuel to the fire is the Catalist report I discussed last week that found an expanding gender gap, especially among young voters and Black and Latino men. In fact, essentially all of the decline that Harris experienced relative to Biden came from men:
(Excerpt) Read more at natesilver.net ...
If you believe all women are sexual assault victims because men are brute rapists, and you also believe women and girls should share locker rooms with men ... you might be a Democrat.
If you believe America is horribly racist against non-whites, and you also believe non-whites should be able to move here to have a better life ... you might be a Democrat.
All of a sudden, the Democrats find they need the young men.
“Because that weirdo effeminate Governor of Minnesota is a Democrat”.
Because there is no future anyone could possibly want with democrats.
SBSQ=Shahid Babaei High School?
Maybe because real men have testosterone.
Plus EVERYTHING the Democrat party has promoted for the last 40+ years goes against being a man.
The DEI push has been primarily done by the Democrats. It favors everything NON MALE. Unless, that means the the man is pretending to be a woman. Then is is pro male.
Democrats have doubled-down on homosexuals, feminism, and illegals.
Any normal young man trying to make his way in the world, with half a brain in his head, will understand the Democrats hate him.
what is riverian spirit?
the democrats have failed to understand individual rights over government powers, that is why they are failing.
What is “Riverian spirit?”
I love this. I had my daughter in a private Christian school from K - 8. She is now in her early 20s.
Because I was a classroom mom those 8 years, I became close with a lot of her classmates. I was the goofy, funny mom who (having had all brothers) laughed at their jokes, encouraged them to be as rough and tumble as the wanted to be.
Now several of my ‘sons’ have friended me on FB. They’re all in college now, all of them Trump supporters, all of them making great strides in their lives. They don’t fall for the leftist lie and are very old school, as they say.
Destroy the male component and you destroy the family. The progressive left seeks to replace that family with social workers, counselors, and state appointed re-education specialists.
Drop all the gay stuff
Stop to wanting to replace Americans with 3rd worlders
democrats (no typo) die when confronted by a man, so they try not to make 'em in the first place.
God's plan is not only perfect, but simple and natural.
Y'gutt'a really work at being a democrat.
Not only is it that Democrat male politicians generally tend to be less “manly,” but it is also true that the less “manly” among the GOP male politicians are removing themselves (e.g., Mitt Romney).
If the Democrats were smart, they would promote the one male among them who comes across as at least somewhat manly, and argues their PsOV fairly effectively: Rep. Jim McGovern (MA). But they aren’t, which is fine with me, they’ll roll with their effeminates and/or their POCs, such as Buttgieg, Pritzker, and Obama-minime Jeffries.
Well done, Mermaid Girl!
“Any normal young man trying to make his way in the world, with half a brain in his head, will understand the Democrats hate him.”
Democrats started their war on men long ago, with Anita Hill. Soon the slightest glance at women in the workplace could be punished severely by the Human Services feminist cult. Women falsely accused men even way back then. I got falsely accused of sexual harassment in 1999. Had to fight for my name and after being acquitted I walked away from my career. There is no recourse to punish them.
Nobody believes you if you’re a man, and nobody will do a 60 Minutes on your behalf. Feminism is one of the most poisonous and toxic philosophies ever. But Biden, Clinton, and Ted Kennedy did just fine.
Let me hazard a guess:
There are characteristics of people with XY Chromosomes, which are wholly incompatible with the gender-bending agenda of lunatics, yes?
Wow, young men are called the root of all evil. And they wonder why they don’t like the Democrat party? Remember its mostly white young men. But its more and more colored men as well. Even some gay men. The Democrat party cares for those who are not male, not straight, not white, not American. So if you don’t tick off too many of those boxes its easier to see you are going nowhere in a Democrat society.
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