What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ?
What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ?
I think progressives never thought about this because we banked on immigration and demographic change allowing us to win culturally and electorally but the issue is immigrants tend to be overwhelmingly male, that is how Trump won actually he won over a lot of Hispanic,Black,Asian and indigenous men who feel humiliated by a new culture, economy and world.
So what can we do rhetorically and policy wise to win more young men over. I have a few ideas.
My idea is legalized prostitution,fully legal with brothels and everything. The reason it has to be legalization is decriminalization still creates a stigma and grey area where it being legal lessens the stigma greatly.
This doesn't hurt anyone in the progressive coalition it actually benefits women if anything since women will have tons of high paying easy jobs. Before you say would you do it ? I am already a sex worker and I would be a prostitute if it were fully legal.
The right can't copy it since it alienates their evangelical base
It starts with people understanding exactly how our government and economy works and who is benefitting from the current system. Once you actually understand those things, the solutions are obvious in my opinion.
I think this fixes itself if you first concentrate on winning back the working class. You can't win without them, so winning over young men is mute. The democrats lost them in the last election because, well, they did nothing for them, didn't even address their concerns, used platitudes "we are for democracy, and good things" instead of actual policies that would help them. A lot of complacency with young men, not voting, goes hand in hand with the policies that effect the working people; well paid salary, affordable healthcare, able to buy home, able to pay rent, buy cheaper food, etc. Until they see a clear plan, the effort is fruitless.
there just isn't a sure path to success anymore. It's possible to technically do everything right and still fail.
Selling Progressivism won’t work because that’s not the problem.
- I’m watching a video now where they’re blaming lack of success. Apparently young men don’t support democrats because they don’t get anything done. I saw this during the election as well where people only looked at the short term, only blamed one party, instead of looking at why
- my brother is more conservative, although he won’t say how much of it he actually believes. But we clearly are living in different realities. If you can’t agree on basic facts, how can you agree on solutions? If I lived in his reality I might have similar beliefs. However he can’t see my reality, nor why I think that’s the real reality
I agree from a moral basis that prostitution should be legal, but I don't see how that wins you many votes.
The working-class strategies are the best bet IMO. Raise minimum wages, universal healthcare, mandatory PTO/family leave/etc, strengthen unions to make jobs safer and better-paid, increase education quality.
I think housing is another policy that benefits young men a bit more.
Young women now move out of their parents house at higher rates for a reasons.
They are more likely to go to college so they can live in dorms.
A thriving sex work economy allows us to just afford it.
A woman can find a boyfriend easier to help split the cost of rent
This is liberal nonsense. There’s more young men moving far left than there are moving far right.
The difference is the far right young men are welcomed into the GOP, and the party at least pretends to represent their interests. The Dems have overtly worked to clean house of any semblance of the far left in their ranks, and made it very clear that they demand the voters come to the party, rather than the party having to appeal to them.
People aren’t simply moving far right. People are abandoning the center. There’s just no place for the far left in electoral politics, by design.
What kills me is that the Republicans successfully paint center right Democrats like Biden and Harris as "radical left lunatics". So they might as well actually run a radical left lunatic.
Because the Republicans and Democrats are coordinating with each other to prevent an actual leftist party from running. They both know they’d never win another election again.