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What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? (lemmy.world)

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I think progressives never thought about this because we banked on immigration and demographic change allowing us to win culturally and electorally but the issue is immigrants tend to be overwhelmingly male, that is how Trump won actually he won over a lot of Hispanic,Black,Asian and indigenous men who feel humiliated by a new culture, economy and world.

So what can we do rhetorically and policy wise to win more young men over. I have a few ideas.

My idea is legalized prostitution,fully legal with brothels and everything. The reason it has to be legalization is decriminalization still creates a stigma and grey area where it being legal lessens the stigma greatly.

This doesn't hurt anyone in the progressive coalition it actually benefits women if anything since women will have tons of high paying easy jobs. Before you say would you do it ? I am already a sex worker and I would be a prostitute if it were fully legal.

The right can't copy it since it alienates their evangelical base

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Selling Progressivism won’t work because that’s not the problem.

I’m watching a video now where they’re blaming lack of success. Apparently young men don’t support democrats because they don’t get anything done. I saw this during the election as well where people only looked at the short term, only blamed one party, instead of looking at why
my brother is more conservative, although he won’t say how much of it he actually believes. But we clearly are living in different realities. If you can’t agree on basic facts, how can you agree on solutions? If I lived in his reality I might have similar beliefs. However he can’t see my reality, nor why I think that’s the real reality