GenZ reminds me of GenX. They will do what all young people do, which is go against their elders, those mostly being the Millennials. Young men, both my sons included, think the Democratic Party is too feminine. For men, especially, as long as the Democratic Party is focused only on certain sexes, sexual preferences, races, and special interest groups over broad based policies for everyone, including them, they will be turned off. Basically, they don't care much for identity politics.
I know several young men with democrat parents who are now republicans. One of them, I will call him Nathan, went to Vassar where the extreme wokeness of the students and faculty pushed him into becoming an ardent libertarian who will vote Trump in this election (although he is critical of Trump).
Vassar radicalized him. As a heterosexual white male, brought up by a single mother, he found that he was supposed to "check his privilege" and feel guilty about being white. His maternal grandfather was working class manual laborer from generations of poor Irish, some of whom left Ireland because of famine. They came to the US and worked building railroads.
Nathan came to question the critical theory ideology that claimed to be able to define who is oppressed and who is an oppressor. He started to read outside of the assigned stuff and discovered libertarian thinkers. Covid further radicalized him because he saw how nonsensical and unfair the mask and vaccine mandates measures were for college students. He said it made him deeply distrustful of government mandates.
I can say one thing for sure. He is lost forever to the democratic party.
GenZ reminds me of GenX. They will do what all young people do, which is go against their elders, those mostly being the Millennials. Young men, both my sons included, think the Democratic Party is too feminine. For men, especially, as long as the Democratic Party is focused only on certain sexes, sexual preferences, races, and special interest groups over broad based policies for everyone, including them, they will be turned off. Basically, they don't care much for identity politics.
I know several young men with democrat parents who are now republicans. One of them, I will call him Nathan, went to Vassar where the extreme wokeness of the students and faculty pushed him into becoming an ardent libertarian who will vote Trump in this election (although he is critical of Trump).
Vassar radicalized him. As a heterosexual white male, brought up by a single mother, he found that he was supposed to "check his privilege" and feel guilty about being white. His maternal grandfather was working class manual laborer from generations of poor Irish, some of whom left Ireland because of famine. They came to the US and worked building railroads.
Nathan came to question the critical theory ideology that claimed to be able to define who is oppressed and who is an oppressor. He started to read outside of the assigned stuff and discovered libertarian thinkers. Covid further radicalized him because he saw how nonsensical and unfair the mask and vaccine mandates measures were for college students. He said it made him deeply distrustful of government mandates.
I can say one thing for sure. He is lost forever to the democratic party.
Could you post the link to where Dems mention 16 groups and not men? Thanks so much!
Sure. I write about it here: https://storylines.substack.com/p/have-democrats-given-up-on-men
But it's also on their website: https://democrats.org/