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The Democrat party has made young women miserable. So they vote Democrat.
The Democrat Party is losing support among lots of demographic groups: blue-collar workers, blacks, Hispanics, men, rural residents, and so on. Powerline linked to a New York Times article that pointed out that the Republican Party’s share of the vote has increased in each of the past three presidential elections in close to half the counties in America — 1,433 in all. Democrats have increased their vote share in those three elections in only 57 of the nation’s 3,100-plus counties. The Democrats are steadily losing support among lots of different groups of people.
One group that has become increasingly supportive of Democrats, however, is young women. Young women appear to be undergoing lots of transformational changes over the past 10-15 years. A 2022 Gallup poll found that 38% of young liberal women identify as LGBT. The #metoo movement made many young women distrustful of men in general, even if they’d had no bad experiences with men themselves, as this young woman explained:
“I think I’m at an interesting age where the #MeToo movement was going on during some very formative years. Like I said, I’m only 21, so #MeToo was very high school for me, so I think luckily I had that all over social media to kind of shape the way I look at dating and men. And allow me to use other people’s experiences to form a sense of like putting a guard up almost.”
For whatever reason, young liberal women took this messaging to heart more than young conservative women did. Only 32% of young liberal women say they are satisfied with how women are treated in American society, versus 70% of young conservative women. Of course, liberals tend to be more likely to shun religion, marriage, family, and other things that give people purpose and fulfillment in life, so perhaps they just naturally have a more negative view of life in general.
But still, young liberal women appear to be really struggling right now. They’re miserable. And they are one of the very few groups that are increasing their support of Democrats.
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What bothers me about all this is that many of the things that are making young women depressed (#metoo, politicization of sexual identity, atheism, avoiding marriage and children, resentment of men, etc.) are causes that Democrats push. Which leads women to believe that they need the support of the Democrat Party.
So the Democrats intentionally make people miserable, just to get their votes, so Democrats can gain power: “Who cares if young women are depressed and suicidal? Now we can pass bigger spending bills! Yay!” They’re destroying people’s lives just to gain political power.
That’s evil. I don’t use that word very much. But in this case, I can’t think of another word.
I look at happy teenagers, at a ball game or out on dates, laughing with their friends. I wonder what the Democrat Party has to offer them?
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All Democrats have to offer is misery. Because if you’re not miserable, why would you vote Democrat? At least, that appears to be what Democrats think.
I don’t see how this is a promising plan for growth, for a national political party.
And I don’t see how Democrat leaders can give speeches trying to stoke resentment and fear among young women, and then go home and sleep at night.
I just don’t understand.
But evil can sometimes be difficult to understand.
“The descent to Hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.” – C.S. Lewis
Published in General
According to Mallory Millet (sister of Kate Millet, a “defining architect of second wave feminism” and author of “the Bible of women’s liberation” and one of the founders of N.O.W.) that was always the plan.
https://mallorymillett.com/?p=37 (2014)
https://mallorymillett.com/?p=322 (2018)
(Kate Millet also had a hand in the “deinstitutionalization” movement, with similarly disastrous results: https://mallorymillett.com/?p=39 (2014) )
“All Democrats have to offer is misery. Because if you’re not miserable, why would you vote Democrat? At least, that appears to be what Democrats think.”
Love that, Doc. It makes me laugh, even though you probably didn’t intend to be funny. I went to the grocery store with my wife this morning. Standing outside with a clipboard was a guy who has become somewhat infamous in my town. He has for years come here to advocate for some liberal cause or another, most of which include increasing taxes. I say, he comes here because he doesn’t live in our town, not even in our state. He has been promoting his causes for decades. My wife and I laughed when we saw him as we entered the store. Upon leaving, a man walks out in front of us and says to the aforementioned antagonist, “What do you got? I’ll sign it.” He was ready to sign anything because he knew it would be a protest against something. This is the unhappy liberal mind in action. As you said, “All Democrats have to offer is misery.” And, misery loves company.
It’s because the Democrats “feel their pain,” right after inflicting it.
“Democrats love poor people. That’s why they’ve created so many of them.”
One could argue that this is tautological. More and more it seems that identifying as LGBTQ+ is a prerequisite for being allowed to identify as a “liberal”.
Consider this: The LGBT crowd was pumping their social media and face-to-face conversations with the idea that Trump would have them all in camps by the end of Dec 2017.
And that was before four full years of “Trump is literally Hitler.”
Of course they proved to each other that he was literally Hitler by the way that literally everything he did was racist.
Meanwhile liberal school districts were filling up personnel slots with LGiBiTity teachers and counselors.
So now here we are.
On top of this, we have had the subliminal and not so subliminal experience, over the past 8 years, of every other movie brought forward to viewership by the popular streaming platforms mainly focusing on LGBT leading characters.
Where once coming of age stories focused on relationships with parents, HS friends and that first significant romance, more recent films focus on the plight of young lesbians and young gay men. Sure, way back in the 90’s, “My So Called Life”had episodes that focused on the one young gay man in the protagonist’s circle of friends. But those episodes were in proportion to the actual proportion of young gay men as compared to the rest of Angela’s classmates.
@drbastiat, have you discussed your observations with the three young ladies in your life who are contemporaries of those you write about? Their perspectives might be interesting to add to the conversation.
Promises broken! 😇
And yet they get half the vote, election after election. The 2024 popular vote was a statistical dead heat, 49.8 to 48.3%. I don’t understand it either. Three of my five kids voted for Harris despite healthy conservative upbringings.
I guess this post wasn’t written in time.
Faster, Basticat!
Per Bill Cosby: Faster, faster you fool, you fool!
Tina Peters, who has been kept in prison for challenging the vote count in Arizona has some new revelations about facts that affect so many of us across America.
The passwords to the now ubiquitous electronic counting machines were easily accessible and this may have not only been the reason why Kari Lake lost, but also this could have affected election results in other blue states. What would have prevented the Dem leaders in Michigan from asking the big shot Dems in AZ to help their cause out? https://x.com/liz_churchill10/status/1927060338916180220
Gold Star Mom Tina Peters is still being kept as a prisoner despite the gravely overwhelming info that her trial has brought forward.
https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/05/they-didnt-think-i-had-it-tina-peters-on-evidence-betrayal-and-faith-behind-bars/
Because “Misery loves company.”
That is a huge number! I had no idea it was that large. I feel really sad for those girls. Some figure it out…
Gen Zers who are actually happy are saying yes to religion and family — and no to social media
and cf. Brett Cooper.
That belongs on a coffee mug. The entire quote.
21-year-old girl: Why are you moving back and forth in a semicircle around me?
Me: I’m reading your coffee mug.
And from there, the conversation can only get more sparkling.
21-year-old girl: I’m LGBT.
Me: Pick one. Or fewer.
The most distubing word in her quote is “luckily”.
That really bothered me.
She’s thankful that they did this to her. Gosh.
Wow. Getting married early now means at 25 years old.
I consider that late.
I believe these leftist women are only saying they’re LGBT to show support for LGBT . . .
It might be a smart move in that it also insulates them from the toxic liberal heterosexual “dating” scene…you can easily deflect advances by claiming to be on the other team. Would you want your daughter “dating” a leftwing man-in the revolving hook up culture? BTW dating in quotes b/c the object of the events, in the eyes of the far left, isn’t to see about the prospects for a longterm committed relationship (possibly sacred) and child raising.
I don’t have daughters, but my daughters in law are very level headed and would crawl over broken glass to vote against further leftwing nuttery and further threats to their children’s mental health from the left.
Also, the left is miserable and believe their misery is due to some external force which can only be solved by the Federal Government
It’s a phenomenon all over the west.
The direction and policy of the last 50 years has been to make life easier for lounge lizards and predators. Pointless sex with pathologically selfish men? That’s liberation and sexual equality. Denigration of marriage motherhood? The personal satisfaction and fulfillment therein is a delusion and a trap. And a horrific vulnerability. And the more society trashes maleness and manhood, the harder it becomes to find male fit for relationships. It is all literally insane.
Depression is like a self-aware disease. Other people, activity, sunlight become enemies because the disease is protecting itself. It wants to feed on the host in isolated darkness. The world is full of evils like racists, sexual predators, climate catastrophe, Trump… Best to stay in and commune online with other victims and only come out for events reinforcing group messaging.
Demand the federal government provide income security. Demand that society provide recognition and automatic career promotion for good girls with good grades despite the needs of and changes in job markets. Think in bumper stickers, emojis, memes, slogans and caricatures, the uniformity of which is an approximation of human companionship and social interaction.
25% of liberals take psychiatric medication.
That means 75% of them are walking around unmedicated!!!
(Not my joke.)
But seriously, EVERYBODY has at least one mental health issue. That statistic merely tells us that white liberal women under 30 are more likely to seek diagnosis.
(It’s also why Freud’s conclusions are based almost entirely on the behaviors of a small number of rich crazy women.)
I suspect that therapy does not reach the ideations that paint the world and life so darkly, encourage victimhood and otherwise distort reality. “How does that make you feel?” as opposed to “Has it ever occurred to you that that is utter and complete BS?” may elude root causes.
If the HR department at Auschwitz offered counseling to depressed guards, it would likely not address the rather negative aspects of that employment situation that are likely to be the real issue.
Such as…
only if one believes in the medicalization of countless problems….
An additional concern is the low efficacy of psychiatry & psychology (including the counseling AND drugs). If antibiotics had as poor an efficacy, many of us would be dead.