It's important to acknowledge when we discuss why a minority of young men are attracted to the radical right that part of the answer is "they're obnoxious".
It's not all about being dispossessed and left behind it's also twats.
It's not all about being dispossessed and left behind it's also twats.
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Incredibly revealing quote from some 19 year old asshole NPR found at the Trump parade. Basically, "sure his policies suck, but he's evil, which I think is great"
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Insurance companies know this is a demographic that *can* make bad, impulsive decisions.
Like this young man enjoying watching a bully destroy our entire country, economy and environment.
Fight, flight, freeze, or fawn.
Some are doing the latter.
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/2/15/the_stephen_miller_story_from_pestering
The only guy I in my school that came close to that level of meanness and narcissism wound up in youth prison for most of high school because he knifed someone.
I can only imagine what energy he exudes when you stand in his physical proximity
You’d prob have to perform an exorcism to rid yourself of the negative energy
Survivor of teenage years at an all boys Grammar school inhabited mainly be what can best be described as "twats"
Life was simpler when enjoying The Marshall Mathers LP wasn't considered a political act 😁
Of course it will have to do a lot of lifting, and be funded by gov.
They have white boy privilege syndrome.
They are used to everything being handed easily to them. They have never had to WORK for anything. And they expect the rest of the world to treat them like Mommy and Daddy did.
Lots of unnecessary handwringing about 'lost' young men, when in fact they are not lost, they are just arseholes. 'Twas ever thus.
Nothing to do with a culture that expects young boys to be
‘ hard ‘ , to use physical might , to reject authority , to repress their emotions .
He simply likes to see bad things happen to other people.
Some people are simply awful human beings.
This is on the parents too.
We never had the love that every child oughta get
We ain't no delinquents
We're misunderstood
Deep down inside us there is good!
These would fit as well
There’s a lot of truth to the idea that white working class men have been left behind, but quite a few of them have *chosen* to be arseholes.
Also, they’re still white and male in a society that favours them. They aren’t *that* oppressed.
You name a group of people and a certain, really quite small (like <5% ?) proportion of them will always be arseholes. Nationality, gender, any characteristic, some people just are that way