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The brain trust of the Democrat Party still cannot understand why Kamala Harris and Tim Walz didn’t attract and sway young American males to vote for them, and who instead turned out to vote for Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. So they’re spending millions of dollars and commissioning an exhaustive research effort to actually speak with these younger grunting, primitive, knuckle-dragging, troglodytes. Of course, it speaks volumes about how ideologically entrenched and clueless Democrats are. So, permit me to help. Here are some reasons that immediately come to mind:
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Even if most of the actors weren't gay, it sure sounded like the writers were.
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Gay or not, they were definitely goofy.
With all due respect, it reminded me of certain (not all) Christian "rock" musicians whose ideological parameters were so constraining, they couldn't produce actual "rock."
Oddly, both those certain Christian rockers and Dudes For Kamala have the same problem: Too much message-discipline.
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Brian, you should type this up, put it in a binder and submit it to the DNC with a large bill. You've really nailed it.
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Brian, you should hide this from the DNC at all costs. I don't count the chances as even one in a thousand, but if they took it to heart, they might actually claw back a percentage point somewhere.
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I think a big issue is that from much of the 1990s onward, the basic education system (K - 12) became very female-centric, with little to entice boys, and in many fundamental ways, oppositional to boy interests and behaviors.
"Sit in chairs. Be still and be quiet."
"Write. Do not do."
"Cooperate. Collaborate. Do not compete."
"Do not do or say anything to which even the most fragile person might take offense or objection."
"Conform your opinion to the taught orthodoxy / convention. Do not challenge or disagree."
"Take no risks."
Boys were functionally shut out of "the system."
The anti-boy education system became the adult power system, especially in government.
The Democrats, as the party of government and "the system," now have a structural problem in that they have built over three decades or more a structure that systematically excludes most of half of the country's population. They can't paper over that structural problem with a few memes or tailored PR statements.
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