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Young people voting more "liberal" I think is the misnomer of the whole conversation. I think that's just what we've seen in the last 50-odd years because for those last 50-odd years, the only viable anti-establishment rebellious political movement was the liberal left. Young men aren't...

Yes please to all the bolded. And when we start doing all that, we can start talking about reducing the leg-ups needed to equal the playing field. But if we don't equal the playing field with the above and probably more.... then there will be institutional advantage so "equality of...

https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/sites/caeremuneration/submissions/c20136333-sub-afei-annexc-140518.pdf 35% male teachers in 1995... 27% in 2015. Declining sure... but that's "roughly 1-in-3" over that time period approaching "1-in-4". I'm definitely not arguing it's not a problem. It very...

The more I think about this topic the more I come around to the idea that young males aren't more right wing than older males anymore than they were 20-30 years ago. I'm starting to think back then there were just as many young men mildly angry at and disconnected from mainstream politics as...

A good comment, but one that leads to a very scary question. Is western democracy already in a death spiral with an inevitable evolution to either a left-style Occupy revolution or right-style MAGA revolution? In which case the fascists are already winning while the left was DOA? I do think...

... and here at it's core is the very essence of nationalism. Your identity is directly tied to your nationality. Therefore any slight on the behaviour of your nation is a slight on you. Putting aside any other debates around definitions of racism that relate to minorities vs...

Show how those things were different 10 or 20 or 30 years ago, depending on whenever you think young males were less likely to identify with far-right politics. Because I still maintain that all those points, whether you think they're a problem or not, were all basically the same 30 years...

The last 3 things you said in your original are all racist (as well as pretty weird things to say and telling of where your viewpoint starts). The last two are racist because, while they are referencing a country, they are making implications about the people of those countries having certain...

Point is I don't think she should worry any more or less than I thought I and other kids needed to worry about 30 years ago. Because, even if we have different names and explanations for it, life is pretty much the same. Except that we're increasingly voting for fascist ideals because we think...

Yeah but again... exactly like you say... it's not an in-your-face-every-day-occurrence so why are we basing our voting and politics on it? I do see toxic masculinity in the sense that some boys at my daughter's school seem to go out of their way to bully their way to the perceived top of the...

Who is telling you all of this? Like really... who? And I don't mean when you go online and look for stuff designed to make you angry. I mean who... in real life? Surely if everything you see in here on the internet and through media is telling you that's the world you live in... but...

I think your suggestion is exactly right, and was effective when combined with minimising tobacco companies' ability to advertise their products and manage the messaging of what it meant to be a smoker. I think there's a direct correlation with any sudden increase in smoking and some...

I heard the latest data showed smoking rates were increasing, particularly in younger Gen Z types, for the first time since the 90s. There's a bit of a pop culture and social media trend back towards smoking being "cool" again, plus the accessibility of vaping as a gateway to smoking.

Agree... the right-shift of traditional media that is encapsulated by Murdoch occurred decades ago and it's effect is clear to see; the shift of traditional centre-left parties like ALP, Democrats, UK Lab, etc. so they basically now occupy the centre or centre-right at their core. Murdoch's...

A quick bit of googling and the news stories seem to more specifically identify the trend with Gen Y rather than Gen X. I won't post the links because I'm sure you can search "are Gen Y becoming less conservative with age" and pick whichever articles you do and don't want to read. I think the...

Not everything right is fascism and not everyone on the right is a Nazi. And no-one is claiming that... it's a useful deflection from the fact that (less importantly) there are neo-Nazis and they do support Trump, but (more importantly) Trump politics are genuinely and in a real way lined with...

It goes hand-in-hand with the fact than GenX and GenY have not trended towards conservatism as they age to the same extent that previous generations have. The now middle-age-group is less conservative than ever, and it's making being right-wing more "rebellious" than ever. The right for the...

Not sure... what are you saying then? That the average swing-vote punter thinks progressive policies are the way to go? ALP strategists seem to not think that... and I tend to think they're right.

Maybe not in the detail. But a first-year Labor PM after a long run of Libs... struggling to demonstrate a significant shift to progressivism... undercut by a largely global financial problem that has made living hard for the average punter... being sold as out-of-touch with everyday...

I don't think it's that simple. Elections are won and lost because votes swing between ALP and LNP. Yes every now and then a minor party will blip where the votes go, but even then it's what happens with the purple voters that decides who governs. I think both parties have, depending on your...

The political right complaining about corporations pushing political agendas after decades of railing against the regulation interference with companies and the media... that's starting to move into I Can't Believe a Leopard Ate My Face territory.

There was a big difference in 2010/2013 in that Labor was bashing itself to pieces internally and Abbott was seen as effective against Gillard so given full tilt to beat her in 2013. Albo is starting to look a lot like 2009 Kevin Rudd it has to be said. But I don't think there's anywhere...

It would be nice of older men could therefore understand this point and those problems and guide the younger men, but it seems like a large number of older men... even if they wouldn't vote for Trump or embrace genuine fascist politics... still buy into the same anti-Woke scaremongering that...

They avoided a bloodbath... but they still lost fairly convincingly. As much as it's what you'd want to see the ALP do if you're politics are on the Green-Red border, it doesn't seem like a winning strategy.

Certainly not something for the Greens to celebrate... but I just feel like it's been talked up as a "wake-up call" and a "rejection of them" when really it was just them stagnating rather than continuing their general growth in the last decade or two. On numbers without knowing how the...

I like this. And I think it's reasonably a part of pushing towards political persuasion as an identity rather than just something you do for yourself so it's a good idea as an answer to the question. I think it's also important to understand why a lot of equality ideology has moved away from...

It's possible to be pro-democracy without ever supporting elements of representation within that democracy. It's possible to be pro-democracy but expect limitation of anti-democratic actors or even the exclusion of them within that democratic framework.

Am I missing the narrative on the Greens being "smashed" in the 2024 Qld election? Yes they lost a seat... so in terms of representation that's bad. But they have a positive swing statewide? So at worst you might say they just had 1 bad or disliked candidate? Disappointing and particularly...

Where... in real life... is this exclusion even happening though? I'm a white straight male. I don't think I've ever felt excluded from anywhere. Except maybe 1 room in an art gallery in Tasmania I heard about on the news. The only time I might feel excluded is when Social Media...

Political correctness is only "hardly mentioned" because woke has taken it's place as a more emotive descriptor of the right's great boogie-man. Post after post is pushing that young men are moving right in rebellion against wokeness... but I really, really, really, just don't get it. Having...