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May 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM

The Democrat Party’s ‘Speak with American Men’ Project

Brian Watt
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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:

  • Young men resented being forced as children to listen to men in dresses and make-up read stories to them about queer and transgender characters.
  • They were annoyed when the Boy Scouts started pushing transgenderism, accepted boys afflicted with gender dysphoria, eliminated the word “Boy” from “Boy Scouts of America,” and accepted girls.
  • Young men were tired of constantly being singled out in college as misogynists and potential rapists by professors and female students with blue or neon green or purple hair and multiple face piercings, and being endlessly lectured about the patriarchy. Many of them left college altogether rather than endure this.
  • Young men became disillusioned and angry when woke messaging and gay and lesbian characters started to appear in the Marvel Universe, DC Universe, and Star Wars spin-off franchises.
  • Young men were irritated when the NFL hired gay men as cheerleaders while other men on the playing field pummeled one another, and at least exhibited some athletic prowess and skill and acted like men.
  • Scores of young men were desperate for courageous masculine role models and responded positively to the lectures and work of Dr. Jordan Peterson.
  • Some young men were interested in serving in the military but were reluctant to take orders from men who wore dresses and women’s make-up, who were getting cross-hormone “therapy,” or who might be undertaking genital mutilation/fabrication surgeries.
  • Many young men weren’t impressed with hired actors (some of whom were gay) who encouraged them to vote for the Harris/Walz ticket. The remark that one of the hired actors made that he “ate carburetors for breakfast” sounded ridiculously stupid and contrived; something that men never say.
  • Millions of young men thought that Trump displayed a substantial degree of courage and defiance when he rose up with a blood-streaked face, held his fist in the air and shouted, “Fight! Fight! Fight!” after a would-be assassin attempted to blow his head off.
  • Many young men detected a certain effeminate and buffoonish quality about Tim Walz as he pranced and waved jazz hands, and were tired of effeminate men pretending to be masculine role models.
  • A substantial portion of young men felt that Kamala Harris was a brainless ditz, and didn’t want to be lectured to for 4+ years by a brainless ditz. They imagined what it would be like to marry such a moronic and entitled woman and vowed not to let that happen to the country. (Keep in mind that they had already experienced being lectured to for four years by a cognitively struggling, angry, deceitful old man.)

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    kedavis@kedavis·1y
    Brian Watt (View Post):
    Many young men weren’t impressed with hired actors (some of whom were gay) who encouraged them to vote for the Harris/Walz ticket. The so-called remark that one of the hired actors made that he “ate carburetors for breakfast” sounded ridiculously stupid and contrived and something that men never say.

    Even if most of the actors weren't gay, it sure sounded like the writers were.

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    GrannyDude@GrannyDude·1y

    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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    Doctor Robert@DoctorRobert·1y

    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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    Sisyphus@Sisyphus·1y
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    Doctor Robert (View Comment):

    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.

    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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    Full Size Tabby@FullSizeTabby·1y

    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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