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- mensliberation
While many believe young people are becoming more liberal, data shows that 12th grade boys are nearly twice as likely to identify as conservative compared to liberal. Around 25% of high school seniors identify as conservative while only 13% identify as liberal. In contrast, the share of 12th grade girls identifying as liberal has risen to 30%. Many factors may contribute to this trend, including the rhetoric of Donald Trump which appealed to disaffected young men, and the focus of progressive movements on issues of gender and racial equality which some young men perceive as a “matriarchy.” However, most high school seniors claim no political identity, and many boys in high school do not actively discuss
The left is why kids aren’t working in factories. The right and center have done everything to keep us from remembering that fact.
If you want role models on the left there’s plenty of them. You just won’t find them as easily on YouTube.
Yes, but there aren’t figure heads targeting this demographic with a specific rhetoric/ideology.
When they teach it in school about kids working in coal mines and meat factories, they don’t teach the politics that went along with it.
No, unfortunately they don’t teach it.
I didn’t really understand it until I read The People’s History of the U.S. a few decades later.