The Politico article, “The ever-widening gender gap,” sketches a more specific picture,
In 2004 and 2008…that gap was seven points. By 2012, that number increased to 10 points and it grew to 11 four years later. In 2020, it rose again to 12 points, powered by Trump’s 15-point loss among female voters — 57 percent to 42 percent. Polling ahead of the 2024 race shows signs the divide has widened even further…The most recent New York Times/Siena College poll in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin revealed that 55 percent of registered men support Trump compared to just 39 percent of women — a staggering 16-point difference. The Times/Siena poll conducted last week in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina likewise found the exact same difference.
The gap seems especially wide among Generation Z or those under 30 years old. The Brookings Institute reports, “In politics, we are seeing a gender gap amongst today’s youngest voters—aged 18 to 29—with young women being significantly more Democratic in their political leanings than young men.” Much of the young female vote is being driven by the US Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling, which reversed Roe v. Wade and returned jurisdiction over abortion to the states. Reproductive rights is now a passionate election cause.
Young men seem to be motivated, not so much by a specific issue, but by their resentment of the current culture. If true, the upcoming elections will express the “Breitbart Doctrine,” named after the late conservative journalist Andrew Breitbart. This doctrine states “politics is downstream from culture.” To change the politics of a society, you must change its culture because politics originates from culture which, in turn, originates from the values of individuals who constitute society. Simply stated, if a person’s values and culture are transformed, his politics transforms accordingly.
The culture surrounding young men is dramatically different from that of their fathers, and the change has not been kind. The Brookings Institute notes, “Young men increasingly feel as though they have been experiencing discrimination.” For decades now, prominent voices of political correctness, which is now called social justice, have blamed men as a gender class for a long slate of social wrongs. And, for young men, the past few decades constitute all of their lives. This means they have heard about their collective guilt since birth, and it would be natural for them to feel resentful for being castigated as a class for social wrongs. Such young men are reportedly turning to Donald Trump as a symbol of more traditional and proud manhood.
What grievances or sense of discrimination are young males likely to bring into the voting booths with them? The International Council for Men and Boys lists twelve:
Whatever you think of the listed grievances, they may have power through young male voters.
Fortunately, the mainstream media is waking up to this issue and the need to address cultural alienation of men, which has too often been ignored or denied. No longer. The mainstream media is sounding an alert about how losing so much of the male vote could spell defeat for the Democrats. As early as 2020, USA Today discussed how male voters may have determined Biden’s election victory. Newsweek’s recent coverage of the issue, cited above, is an in-depth treatment of how male disillusionment leans into a Trump victory. A YouTube video inspired by a Wall Street Journal poll asked, “Why are young men turning Republican?” On CNN, left political commentator Michael Smerconish stated that men, especially white, working-class men, are the new swing voters. An Axios headline reads, “Boys vs. girls election intensifies.” The issue of male voters has received more attention in the last few months than it has in several years.
It is a sad reflection on society if push-for-power elections are the spark that brings the general gender gap to the forefront of attention. Men are doing badly, and it is partly because society has been structured against them in favor of women. This imbalance hurts women as well as men. Women need healthy and well-adjusted men to be life partners, loving family members, friends, good neighbors, co-workers, and the peaceful strangers you pass on the street. The last thing women need is to live beside a generation of resentful men who act on their resentment, especially if the feeling is justified.
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]]>The FTC report published Sept. 19 expounded on how social media and streaming companies endanger children and teens who use their platforms. It also showed how “the tech industry’s monetization of personal data has created a market for commercial surveillance – especially via social media and video streaming services – with inadequate guardrails to protect consumers.”
Staffers at the commission examined the practices of various Big Tech companies, including Meta Platforms (Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp), YouTube, X, Snapchat, Reddit, Microsoft (Discord), Amazon (Twitch) and ByteDance (TikTok).
Samuel Levine, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, outlined in the report that “these companies engaged in mass data collection of their users and – in some cases – non-users.” He also wrote that “many companies failed to implement adequate safeguards against privacy risks.”
The report also expounded on the various ways the aforementioned companies made use of personal data “from serving hypergranular targeted advertisements to powering algorithms that shape the content we see, often with the goal of keeping us hooked on using the service.”
“These practices pose unique risks to children and teens, with the companies having done little to respond effectively to the documented concerns that policymakers, psychologists and parents have expressed over young people’s physical and mental well-being.”
In a statement, FTC Chair Lina Khan said her agency’s report “lays out how social media and video streaming companies harvest an enormous amount of Americans’ personal data and monetize it to the tune of billions of dollars a year.”
“With few meaningful guardrails, companies are incentivized to develop ever-more invasive methods of collection. While lucrative for the companies, these surveillance practices can endanger people’s privacy, threaten their freedoms, and expose them to a host of harms, from identify theft to stalking.”
Following the release of the FTC report, child welfare advocates urged U.S. lawmakers to pass a pair of controversial bills that seek to protect the youth from “dangerous and unacceptable business practices.” But the two proposals, the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0) and Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), could infringe on young Americans’ rights as guaranteed by the First Amendment.
Josh Golin, executive director of the nonprofit organization Fairplay, lauded the FTC report in a statement. He also called for the COPPA 2.0 and KOSA bills to be enacted into law.
“This report from the FTC is yet more proof that Big Tech’s business model is harmful to children and teens,” he wrote. “Online platforms use sophisticated and opaque techniques of data collection that endanger young people and put their healthy development at risk.”
But rights groups including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have condemned the KOSA. According to the ACLU, the KOSA – which the U.S. Senate passed in July – “would violate the First Amendment by enabling the federal government to dictate what information people can access online and encourage social media platforms to censor protected speech.”
ACLU and other rights groups have pointed out that the KOSA won’t keep children safe. It would instead threaten young people’s privacy, limit minors’ access to vital resources and silence important online conversations for all ages. Moreover, the ACLU has also raised concerns about how this bill could be used to limit adults’ ability to express themselves freely online or access diverse viewpoints.
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Of course, the protest-turned-riot was just that, a protest by those upset with the counted results of the presidential race, and the decision to give the White House to Joe Biden while there still remained many unanswered questions about the election.
In fact, there were two undue influences on the election, Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to hand out $400 million plus like candy to local election officials who often used it to recruit voters in Democrat districts, and the interference by the Department of Justice’s FBI, which falsely told publications that the Biden family scandals documented in Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop were Russian disinformation and should be suppressed.
That facts have not prevented Democrats, and Democrat compatriots like ex-Rep. Liz Cheney, from proclaiming it WAS an insurrection, and claiming insurrectionists, including President Trump, not only must be charged and convicted, they must be prevented from ever being in office again.
Now that message is being hand-delivered to school-age children in Pennsylvania.
It’s through a “graphic novel,” or comic book, that is being published and handed out.
A Morning Call report said the publication insists students consider: “What would have happened if the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection had been successful?”
The creators of the concept say they are mailing copies to all public high schools in the state as well as public libraries.
The report explained their goal is “to convey the risks facing American democracy, and what people can do about it.”
It’s authored by Harvard teacher Alan Jenkins and he said he wanted to make his opinions about that event available “in a widely accessible way.”
He has imagined, the report said, “a society controlled by armed militias who take over a TV network, declaring it to be ‘an enemy of freedom.’”
In fact, it is leftists across American academia, business and government who have tried to impose their own censorship schemes on America’s people and communications.
It also features a prominent Democrat lie that has been used against President Trump over and over, the claim he called KKK-type characters “very fine people,” when Trump specifically condemned that faction in his comments about a race dispute in Charlottesville.
A report at PJMedia explains the topic is one of the “inexhaustible supply of dead horses” Democrats have to beat.
“In the latest pathetic attempt to keep the J6 version of the ORANGE MAN BAD monster under their beds and scaring the base, the false J6 narrative has been reimagined in comic book form to help indoctrinate the high school kids,” the report said.
The report confirms, “There was no insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021. … The series of graphic novels are chock-full of lies from the Democratic Trump Derangement Syndrome fever dream. The Charlottesville lie is there, of course, and Black Lives Matter operatives are the good guys. The authors have enlisted the help of a radical organization to make sure the potential youth voters properly understand their marching orders.”
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