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High school boys are trending conservative (thehill.com)

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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

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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Leftists could address these issues better by supporting unions more.

[+] JDPoZ@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.org 7 points 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.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago

I'm wearing a tshirt that I bought to support a union drive now, actually. Over the weekend, I spotted a table with volunteers supporting the UPS drivers and walked up and asked how I could show support. I poster went in my window. I was wearing a sticker supporting Amazon workers trying to unionize at the time, which they noticed.

It's a very unique time during my lifetime where union activity seems to be on the rise. A local Trader Joe's recently formed a union so I went there and individually approached workers and congratulated them. I had a strong sense of who voted yes vs no based on their responses. The ones that were please were really appreciative of the support.

Push hard for unions. Show support for unions in other industries. This is a moment where we might be able to show regular people that we can have collective power.