Young men are Floching to the GOP in painful number, and thanks to them, the Z generation is on the right track to be the most pro-republican in a very long time.
In other words, we reject them at our risk. That’s why I started writing so much on the subject so much. It is easy for progressives to keep them away with male privileges, but that does not serve us to ridicule them with sufficiency if it leads to more republican presidents.
The problems that these young men face are varied. Cultural wars on “bordess”, feminism, LGBTQ + rights and race often frame men as bad guys or as beneficiaries of an unjust privilege. But young men, being young and new in the world, did not necessarily appreciate these supposed advantages of patriarchy. As such, they feel unjustly criticized. Many respond by adopting the opposition and anti-establishment posture good offers, especially online, where personalities like Andrew Tate, Joe Rogan and other conservative influencers reinforce the story that Democrats are hostile to male identity.
At the same time, young men are delayed in education, employment and social mobility compared to women of their generation. Gradation rate of young men clearAnd economic insecurity fuels resentment towards elites and institutions. The conservatives take this into account by scapegoat immigrants, diversity programs and feminism, suggesting that the struggles of young men are the result of a “rigged” system favoring others.
And then social media algorithms finish work. YouTube, Tiktok, Discord and the podcasts are powerful pipelines for conservative and reactionary content targeting young men. The algorithms reward the daring and contrarient voices which supervise liberal policy as without humor, authoritarian or emasculating. The Democrats, on the other hand, did not succeed in counter-programs in these spaces, leaving the influencers of the right free to dominate the conversation between the young people dissatisfied.
The economic image adds more fuel.
“Although the overall unemployment rate is still respectable 4.2%in July, for young men aged 20 to 24, it was 8.3%, which is close to recession levels – and for recent university graduates, the annual rate is 5.3%”, ” wrote Bloomberg Allison Schrager’s columnist. “These two figures are roughly the doubles of comparable figures for young women.”
Part of this, she notes, is cyclical: men tend to work in industries more sensitive to slowdowns, such as construction and manufacturing, while women are more concentrated in less vulnerable sectors, such as health care and education.
But this is where irony comes into play. Manufacturing and construction are also the industries undoubtedly the most affected by the prices of President Donald Trump. A analysis By the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, revealed that out of the first 25 sub-sectors of the US economy most injured by the prices, a shocking 19 was in manufacturing.
And that’s not all. Repair and maintenance intervened in n ° 14, construction in n ° 20, waste management in n ° 21, and the energy extraction industries – IE, mining and drilling – have established the list of n ° 23 at n ° 25. These are all male industries. And as Schrager points out, the first to be dismissed in these industries is young people.
You can see the vicious circle. Trump’s policies directly damage the industries that employ young men, but when dismissals come, law blames women, immigrants and “sensitivity” rather than the real culprit – the law itself. And thanks to the Echo room of online influencers and algorithms, too many of these young men believe it.
The Republicans break their work, then harvest their anger – while the Democrats get blame.
