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Young women are the most progressive group in American history. Young men are checked out
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Interestingly this seems to be a uniquely American phenomenon. In the recent UK general election there wasnt much of a gap between young men and women with a majority of both voting for the centre/centre-left (56% and 58% respectively), though there was a bit more of a diference outside that with the split between greens/far right being 12%:12% for young men and 23%:6% for young women.
Well the centre left isn't centre left. They went right of the conservatives on immigration, focussing on stopping migrant boats etc. They vowed not to raise taxes to fund services. They didn't market themselves as centre-left. It was the right wing that took over the labour party. Historically you would find differences electorally prior to this one.
If you look at men to women voting Reform, it's 17% to 12%. There are disparities, they are just less obvious.
If you go back to the 80s in the UK women were significantly to the right of men, voting for the tories over labour.
I dont disagree that labour were very centrist this election, but saying that they went right of the tories is is just daft when they are putting huge amounts of money into green energy, expanding workers rights and focusing on increasing housing stock. Meanwhile at the last election the tories were still saying they were going to dump migrants in the middle of Africa.