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 overwhelm…

While many believe young people are becoming more liberal, data shows that 12th grade boys are nearly twice as likely to identify as conservative compared to liberal. Around 25% of high school seniors identify as conservative while only 13% identify as liberal. In contrast, the share of 12th grade girls identifying as liberal has risen to 30%. Many factors may contribute to this trend, including the rhetoric of Donald Trump which appealed to disaffected young men, and the focus of progressive movements on issues of gender and racial equality which some young men perceive as a “matriarchy.” However, most high school seniors claim no political identity, and many boys in high school do not actively discuss

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    You also have issues where high-school educated men have not seen any major benefits to any typical liberal or conservative ideology within the past generation.

    On the conservative end, the jobs that the men would have gone into have seen wages and benefits stagnate or drop.

    On the liberal end, the status of white men in society has dropped to a more level playing field with class status or wealth being a more defining factor, something which they don’t have.

    Alt-right conservatives are addressing the economic issues by restricting the work force (anti-immigration) and increasing the jobs in resource extraction (trashing all environmental laws). On social issues, the alt-right head of family is the man.

      • JDPoZ@beehaw.orgEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        Leftists do support unions. It’s the corporate-friendly “CeNtRiSt” democrats and MSNBC lib-pundits that don’t.

        Really that “support” thought doesn’t tangibly matter much unless the folks at the VERY top make major policies that can’t be ignored in even the most rural areas… things like FDR’s “Rural Electrification Act.”

        See, even if some culture war carnival barker yells at country yokels - who normally don’t see the benefits of something like new high speed public rail transit being implemented in Chicago or NYC or Boston - lying to them about the yokels’ jobs disappearing because “gay marriage” or whatever, it doesn’t matter if you can now point to how you are able to see lightbulbs light up your home and listen to the radio now because a Democrat passed laws to give your remote farm access to reliable electricity.

        • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          It’s the corporate-friendly “CeNtRiSt” democrats and MSNBC lib-pundits that don’t.

          Like Biden’s admin shutting down railway workers trying to collectively bargain. And then a train disaster happened, like, the next day.

          • sorchist@beehaw.orgEnglish
            0·
            1 year ago

            yes, that terrible anti-union Joe Biden, how dare he

            https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/15/business/railroad-strike-averted-tentative-deal/index.html

            President Joe Biden called in personally to talk to negotiators around 9 pm ET Wednesday, according to a person familiar with negotiations. Biden stressed that catastrophic harm could come to families, businesses and communities if the rail system shut down. Sources within the unions were giving Biden’s call credit for helping to get the deal completed without a strike.

            “We’re very proud of what was accomplished,” said Jeremy Ferguson, president of the conductors union and one of the leaders involved in the marathon session. He thanked Biden and Labor Department officials involved in the talks for the deal.