***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[kdawg]

 

[balldontlie206]

My theory has always been that the election of Barack Obama broke the brains of a lot of overt racist people and undercover racists. Once Trump got elected, they felt they had the power to go mask off.

 

[Sharpshoeter13]

Dude really bought Twitter to be an insufferable manchild interacting with pretentious edgelords.

 

[jape]

 

[Public Enemy]

Thread with JD Vance being the dumbass he is

 

[pmatic]

wut

 

[Public Enemy]

 

[Public Enemy]

 

[osh kosh bosh]

 

[superblytrife]

No “Meatball Ron” on this list is a travesty.

 

[IATT]

 

[Public Enemy]

 

[Public Enemy]

 

[essential1]

wut

JD got a weird face, why is he around?

 

[Platinum State]

 

[Public Enemy]

 

[elpablo21]

Look at JD trying to indoctrinate the children like the Libs do

 

[NToweG]

Wow that guy really wears makeup.
I thought it was p\s joke.

 

[Public Enemy]

larger pic

 

[NToweG]

They took a picture of themselves taking another weirdo picture.
Brilliant.

 

[Mark Antony]

Yes but in reverse of what he thinks. People being denied service for being black, lgbt etc.

 

[Public Enemy]

 

[osh kosh bosh]

Every JD Vance interview;

 

[rexanglorum]

Not sure this is a given:

Young men in the US used to lean left. Could they now hand Trump the presidency?

The ex-president is courting a demographic drifting away from the Democrats. What’s driving the widening gender gap among young people?

www.theguardian.com

While the graph highlights that young women have turned more liberal overtime, efforts still need to be made to make sure that more young men see how the Democratic party will benefit them.

There certainly is a sizable minority of Gen Z who are pissed off young men, particularly those on the wrong end of a growing cultural and economic education chasm.

Their sheer numbers aren’t that scary but their level of intensity for reactionary politics is very high. That is a major concern.

But I think they’ll be checked by their generation’s intensly left faction in conjunction with the fact that the median Gen Z voter will likely remain econ left and socially laissez-faire.

Obviously, they or any generation could become arch reactionaries given certain material conditions. But assuming that the next 10, 20 years are like the last 40, 50 years, they’ll be a powerful left leaning political force in electoral politics.

The home-equity-as-retirement pyramid scheme that started in the 1970’s, to offset stagnating wages and a decline of defined benefits pensions, is narrowing to the point that a majority of adults will won’t have access to it and something will have to give politically and economically.

I think we could see large scale construction of high quality public housing in major cities and a more robust social welfare state. It would unlock levels of material prosperity never before seen and it will be totally untethered to landownership.

Affordable housing will cause even more human capital flight from rural to urban areas and I could see the pissed of young men remaining in rural areas, bankrolled by a declining rural economic elite, forming terrorist cells to pressure the now firmly center-left Federal government to grant them economic concessions and/or autonomy or political independence.


So in short, there is indeed a violent minority of Gen z who need to be reckoned with, ideally by using the state to make life better in rural areas even as the market seems rural areas worth less than ever. If you can get some of those pissed off young men better economic prospects in the countryside, the call to violence will not be headed, at least not in an organized way.

However, the majority of Gen Z will likely only become more urban, well educated, and less invested in personal homeownership, which exists largely to keep large chunks of the workforce identifying with the very wealthy. So Gen Z will likely live in a mid 21st century in material conditions that tend to pull people leftward politically.

 

[rexanglorum]

Weird guy on Twitter like:

“In 2008, Cross dressing used to be a way to mock women and trans people. JD is not a degenerate.”