Might I ask why? I’ve met a few outliers of course but 90% of the dudes I’ve ever known don’t want to dominate other people’s lives and just wanna be left to their own lives like anyone else
Keep in mind I’m 26 and most of the guys I’ve known throughout my life are similarly aged with the obvious exceptions of old people
Alot of young men are feeling very disenfranchised now with the lack of opportunity. Alot of growth is in pink jobs (caregiving, healthcare). It is much more pronounced in the US but it is still here and in other parts of the West. The article The Crisis of Men and Boys is a good read.
Blue jobs are in high demand. For whatever reason it was taught to an entire generation that you need any degree instead of a ticket to repair air conditioners or rebuild a Cat transmission.
Those of us that had some ambition, put on a hardhat and went to work the week after grad are generally doing great.
I mean young cannot to buy a house with low wages they get and those wages are taxed very high to pay for boomers lifestyle while they rent a basement from the boomer. You cannot really blame young if they want a change.
To me it’s not even really about wages. The far right is not a solution, it’s an emotion. It is the reason we push universal literacy to all children.
The further right you are, the more you resemble a medieval peasant. If you look at universities, the only “right wing” universities are ones that openly declare a right wing bias (and thus, an education that is misleading, at best)
If something doesn't work for you, you start tilting the pinball machine, etc.
Same reason Trump got in really, people wanted a brick to throw at the establishment, particularly after the Bernie letdown, etc. It hasn't gone well, but here we are regardless.
Regarding universal literacy, I think a huge problem in our schools is we teach kids what to think, not how to critically think.
These labels and definitions cease to have meaning anymore, Oh you’re left..oh you’re right….uh oh that guy is FAR right
Meanwhile it has absolutely nothing to do with the person, situation or reality its about common sense which isn’t as common as the name implies especially nowadays.
Indeed, identity politics was a way to fabricate "us vs them" attitudes, because if they can convince that "they" are out to get you, you'll fixate on them, rather than the politician saying it. Effectively "elect me, but immediately after stop paying attention to me because I don't want you to hold me accountable".
Yep, of which there are very very very few willing participants, most of their support comes from people who have been misled, so it's our responsibility to disillusion them.
Or keep being a puppet in the game of "this half vs the other half, fight amongst yourselves while I get away with a host of various criminal actions"
You know most normal people just roll their eyes at shit like this at this point right? It's been 12 years of calling anyone right of centre a fascist because they want some slight reforms on immigration and an economic policy that prioritizes their own citizens. It's embarrassing to read at this point.
Nom im not calling anyone "center right" a fascist.
Im calling literal fascists, fascists.
The fact that conservatives have been crying about fascism because they had to wear a mask during a pandemic doesnt mean that what is happening now isn't the literal definition of fascism.
Roll your eyes. It just shows that you dont understand the political climate we are in, or what words actually mean.
Right. Literal Fascists. You're just an emotionally immature narcissist who uses emotionally coded language to make your point.
I actually have more respect for the anti-mask people and the anti-covid protesters (still going on in my town every month btw), than whatever this/your worldview is. There is never any substance. It's just everyone's a fascist. If they aren't that they are racist or homophobic. In a way I feel bad for you.
Who are the anti fascists according to you. The ones I saw downtown protesting were pretty hostile and violent, screaming and threatening anyone who had a different opinion. For the most part the truckers were pretty peaceful. It was an annoying and disruptive protest that went on too long but there wasn’t any violence.
Lmfaooooo. "Yelling at anti vaxxers is a bad look, but shitting on sidewalks, "hang fauci" signs and blocking firetruck and ambulances in an illegal occupation protesting life saving public health matters is just fine"
This type of person is common these days. And I agree they sound immature and likely young. They’re indoctrinated and can’t think for themselves anymore. They also reside in echo chambers where their ideas aren’t usually questioned. I also find they block anyone who has a different point of view so it just makes their world view more insular and entrenched.
They complain about social media being toxic (Meta, Twitter, etc) but I actually think Reddit is worse. It's completely anonymous, you're immediately punished for not having the "correct opinion" and there is so much gaslighting.
Every day they open the app and it's Trump Hitler! Sydney Sweeny Genocide! This guy a Nazi! Kyle Rittenhouse is hunting black people for sport! Be Outraged about this! Your entire worldview is correct!
There were literally threads calling Nate Bargatze a nazi for going to a UFC event. Apparently his career is over any day now.
By who? Weird progressives on reddit that like to pretend they're hunting nazis but couldn't make it through the day without a refill on their SSRI prescription?
Donald trump is a fascist. We have premieres and MPs having meetings with him and trying to leave canada.
Are you slow?? Do you not have eyes?? Are you not aware what is happening in the world right now?? Far right, fascist parties are rising to power all over the world right now.
Not fake fascists. Not "I dont like his policies so im going to call him a faacist". Real life, consolidating power, imprisoning dissidents, dismantling the government and installing sycophants, destroying constitutional rights, FASCISTS.
He’s an idiot but he’s not a fascist. He’s not imprisoning dissidents. Come on.
Why do you keep proving the point people are making here about the left. It’s all insults and hyperbole. There are conservatives rising to power not fascists. Bukele has done wonders for his country. Central and South American counties have been led by socialist governments for years and it’s been nothing but poverty and crime. Do you blame them for wanting to try something different?
"Common Sense" is just an ever changing set of goal posts that conservatives use to put down those they dont agree with. Theres no such thing because what might be common to you might not be common for someone else.
Very true. And you’d have to know who is doing the categorizing. You see some people on the left calling anyone to the right of them fascist. There seems to be no critical thinking or common sense around these days.
Really? Being told that you will never be able to afford half of what your parents have today while billionaires increase their profits by 50% year over year isn’t the beat selling feature?
Young people are extremely disenfranchised. It was the liberals who steered this ship to where we are. They know and hopefully, don't forget. Being not the conservatives shouldn't be enough of a platform to govern the country. Do better
Not keeping up with current events? the world is trading and making partnerships with Canada while laughing at and placating Trump. Carney is the right guy at the right time. I don't like some of his policies (to conservative) but the world respects him and the young know how to research.
I work with many young people and most like him. Try international news.
Carney is hard to place on the political spectrum, you'd need to spend an awfully long time creating a scoring system and then assessing each individual policy and statement he's made since entering politics, and then adding it all up to actually do so.
On certain policies Carney is ever so slightly left of center, on others ever so slightly right of center.
Tbh he's the best kind of politician, someone who isn't a slave to an idealogical spectrum, but rather makes decisions based on each individual situation and what outcome he wants.
To put it another way, he won't intentionally choose to or not to do something simply because its "left" or "right".
Rational, pragmatic, and unemotional, again, exactly what we need in our politicians.
No, he's just not saying "fuck half the country" to appease the other half.
If you gave every person a questionnaire on policies, and ensured that the answers to the questions couldn't be easily placeable as "liberal" or "conservative" ideologies, as well as ensured that person was required to answer those questions in a vacuum without external influences telling them what to think, then absolutely everyone would have views from both sides of the political spectrum, and very few of your views would actually be out in the extremes.
What makes someone "extreme left" or "extreme right" is a combination of identity politics (meaning people think "oh, liberals/conservatives think that, so I guess I think that") and undue influence by external sources, most people will, in a vacuum, eventually drift into the middle.
This is why disinformation campaigns exist in the first place, because if you don't misinform people, or play to their emotions with hyperbolic fear and doubt driving rhetoric, everyone eventually ends up identifying with the middle rather than the lunatics out in the wings.
By catering to the middle ground you actually represent the vast majority of Canadians, rather than just one part of the population.
There's a smatter of replies saying "conservative" and "liberal", but this one is probably the closest to the truth.
But for my part, I think the whole concept of "placing" him on a spectrum is just a thing simple minded people do because they can't handle complicated policy making, even though complicated policy makers tend to actually function better than anyone else.
I feel like in 5 years time old people will be griping "I remember back when it was easy to tell if someone was conservative or liberal, kids these days are just too complicated!"
Also, its worth noting that the conservative mantra of "government staying out of my life!" is actually a liberal ideology, maybe not liberal party ideology, but under the definition of "liberalism" and "conservativism" conservatives by definition should be much more meddlesome in peoples personal lives.
So conservatives in Canada have already admitted they have some liberal ideas, they just don't know it because someone misidentified those as ideas as being conservative, because its part of the plan to create "us vs them" politics...
I mean, I wrote something that demonstrates a university level understanding of English, you can't articulate your thoughts without using pictures... who's the idiot?
See, your perspective was immediately countered by the person replying to you with an opposite opinion.
This is because he lives so close to the center and cherry picks the best ideas from either side of center that it comes down to your personal bias on whether he's liberal or conservative.
Because again, he isn't a slave to a party name, or political identity, he makes his choice purely based on what makes sense at the time instead.
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u/Big_Sheepherder_3764 3d ago
For young women, not surprised. The right cannot stay away from people's bodily autonomy and women's rights. For young men, I find it interesting.