>Do I think first-time-voting and angry divorced twenty-and-thirtysomething men were targeted by a campaign that spoke to them in Andrew Tate's language and suggested he was being unfairly treated? Fuck yes.
Perhaps then other politicians should think about what they will offer that demographic other than "you're the scapegoat."
Trump at least threw a couple scraps of pardons, even if he is a lying evil bastard or whatever the long form of that is. You've got to do something to get votes.
I guess they thought "not having a candidate who would destroy the country" was enough of a thing to get votes. But it wasn't, so here we are with a president who's destroying the country.
The fact of the matter is, if you are an angry young man, you don't WANT to hear anything other than "<They> are the problem, not you". So unless you want the democrats to adopt Tate's "Women are whores" rhetoric, what the heck are you supposed to offer the angry young men?
They literally are the problem. Women don't like them because, surprise surprise, angry young men don't have much to offer.
These angry young men are lonely because they refuse to see themselves as the problem. They make a pass at one or two girls and get mildly rejected and utterly reject modern reality, instead of doing what their grandparents did which was usually try again, or try someone else, or just otherwise persist in attempting to be valuable to women in general. There are plenty of women who actually want the tradwife lifestyle, where they stay at home and raise a family like it's 1940.
But even those women don't want to be abused, or manipulated, or treated like a lesser person because they don't bring home a paycheck, or get refused basic medical rights because some old white guys can't read the bible and just listen to whatever their asshole pastor with no formal training says on Sunday.
People keep saying the democrats should offer these people something they want, but what they want (as evidenced from voting for trump) is fundamentally incompatible with democracy and individual freedoms of women. They usually want a world in which they are valuable just by virtue of being men, which they believe the past held, but they completely ignore the blunt reality that in the past, men like them just died alone and sad.
There is less sex and drugs and rock and roll nowadays because people socialize less in general, thanks to social media scratching the same itch and preventing people from being forced to go out and touch grass and meet strangers to fulfill that basic biological need.
Instead, these lonely men blame the liberalization of women, and some imaginary "feminist" movement that wants to harm men, actively. Zero sum thinking.
Democrats cannot offer them what they want, because what they want is lies.
Perhaps then other politicians should think about what they will offer that demographic other than "you're the scapegoat."
Trump at least threw a couple scraps of pardons, even if he is a lying evil bastard or whatever the long form of that is. You've got to do something to get votes.