More dataisdepressing than dataisbeautiful
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A few folks have mentioned that these charts
A lot of young men in the US are reporting themselves as "not a Democrat or Republican", and that's causing a lot of this proportional shift. I would bet that characterizes a lot of folks on this site who are not conservative.
https://www.vox.com/politics/2024/3/13/24098780/politics-gender-divide-generation-z-youth-men-women
https://www.allendowney.com/blog/2024/01/28/is-the-ideology-gap-growing/
On the flip side, in Europe extreme right parties are mostly being propped up by young men, while in other age groups men and women vote relatively similarly, which supports this finding.
Exactly. I would be almost as upset with being classified as a liberal or a Democrat as I would be a conservative.
I get classified as all three depending on who I’m talking to.
At the same time I know many people (my brother included) that claim to be "independent" because they think that the trump camp is somehow outside the conservative camp, and therefore respond "independent" on polls. Because they think "I'm not democrat or conservative, I just want to drain the swamp" and then support trump, who is literally a swamp.
Edit: read Jane Jacobs system of survival
This is your brain on idealism, just pure vibes. Political astrology.
~~Have you read it? Don't judge too quickly!~~
Actually on second thought nvm. If that's you're response then I'm out :)
No, but like... dude, you could flip half of those supposed traits between categories and it would read exactly the same. That's why I called it astrology.
Perhaps you just did a bad job of presenting the book's ideas, but I've just read through a summary of it and it didn't exactly make me reconsider my knee jerk reaction.
Thanks for explaining. I did a bad job explaining it, but I'm only taking a short break irl and am just jumping into this conversation. I've removed that section of my comment.
The book explains this in more detail and I recommend it. We don't get much deep discussion into what it means to be conservative/liberal and the purpose of the book isn't to go into that but it does provide a framework. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs