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What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by IloveyouMF@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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I think progressives never thought about this because we banked on immigration and demographic change allowing us to win culturally and electorally but the issue is immigrants tend to be overwhelmingly male, that is how Trump won actually he won over a lot of Hispanic,Black,Asian and indigenous men who feel humiliated by a new culture, economy and world.

So what can we do rhetorically and policy wise to win more young men over. I have a few ideas.

My idea is legalized prostitution,fully legal with brothels and everything. The reason it has to be legalization is decriminalization still creates a stigma and grey area where it being legal lessens the stigma greatly.

This doesn't hurt anyone in the progressive coalition it actually benefits women if anything since women will have tons of high paying easy jobs. Before you say would you do it ? I am already a sex worker and I would be a prostitute if it were fully legal.

The right can't copy it since it alienates their evangelical base

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[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is liberal nonsense. There’s more young men moving far left than there are moving far right.

The difference is the far right young men are welcomed into the GOP, and the party at least pretends to represent their interests. The Dems have overtly worked to clean house of any semblance of the far left in their ranks, and made it very clear that they demand the voters come to the party, rather than the party having to appeal to them.

People aren’t simply moving far right. People are abandoning the center. There’s just no place for the far left in electoral politics, by design.

[–] OpenPassageways@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What kills me is that the Republicans successfully paint center right Democrats like Biden and Harris as "radical left lunatics". So they might as well actually run a radical left lunatic.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Because the Republicans and Democrats are coordinating with each other to prevent an actual leftist party from running. They both know they’d never win another election again.