Bryan Martin
2 min readNov 12, 2024

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I hate Donald Trump. I'm not concerned about how the Republicans can keep control of as many chambers of government as possible. I don't think that the Republicans have anything to offer young men. I don't want them to win, so I'm not criticizing their campaign because I have no wish for them to improve it.

I was merely trying to discuss why young men are moving away from the Democratic party. The young typically vote blue. I would like young men to return to that. I can see how they feel ignored by the Democratic party. The Democratic party hasn't done anything to include them, but they've bent over backwards to include other demographics. That's my point.

My interpretation of your response is this: we shouldn't coddle young men when they struggle. I am not necessarily arguing against that. However, they are voters, just like you and I, and if the Democrats want their vote they need to find a way to appeal to them, just like they do everyone else. If they don't care about the vote of young men (which is a viable political strategy) then they should be prepared for young men to sit out the election or to vote Republican. What I think is unwise is for the Democrats to ignore young men and still expect them to turn up at the polls and vote for them.

The sad fact is that the Democrats have had policies might benefit young men, but they were opposed by the Republicans. The Democrats didn't feel the need to point that out in their campaign. Why? I think they felt that appealing to young men might alienate other demographics. To me, that message was that other demographics were more important to them. Guess what, it looks like young men agreed with me.

It looks like to me that the Democrats are interpreting the lack of support from young men at the election polls was the result of misogyny. Whether that is true or not is besides the point. Continuing to view young men as adversaries will also push them towards the Republican party.

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