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High school boys are trending conservative (thehill.com)

submitted 1 year ago by trashhalo@beehaw.org to c/politics@beehaw.org

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While many believe young people are becoming more liberal, data shows that 12th grade boys are nearly twice as likely to identify as conservative compared to liberal. Around 25% of high school seniors identify as conservative while only 13% identify as liberal. In contrast, the share of 12th grade girls identifying as liberal has risen to 30%. Many factors may contribute to this trend, including the rhetoric of Donald Trump which appealed to disaffected young men, and the focus of progressive movements on issues of gender and racial equality which some young men perceive as a "matriarchy." However, most high school seniors claim no political identity, and many boys in high school do not actively discuss

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[–] snowbell@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is just capitalist propaganda

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Are the history books capitalist propaganda too, then? Because I'm not aware of any instance in history when a stable society emerged with no governing authority and no one taking advantage of anyone else. To my knowledge, at least one of those things always ended up happening, and quickly.

Most humans are selfish and jealous by nature. Not all, but most, and it only takes one jerk to ruin it for everyone. Any system that ignores this fact, and does not have some strategy for dealing with it, is doomed to failure.

The only way I foresee your vision ever becoming reality is if a technological revolution enables a post-scarcity economy, as seen in some science fiction like Star Trek. This could remove the main driver for humanity's selfishness. Maybe. But we aren't even close to having the technology needed to accomplish that.