Haven’t read the entire thread…
- A lot of guys 18-35 have been shut out of dating (straights) women because women over the last few decades have realized they don’t have to be in abusive or trad wife type of relationships. This has made these bros upset at the system. People like kirk, tate, etc. feed into this and let them know that coming along with them, in combination of electing someone like trump, the “old way” can come back.
- gen z (males and females) are—not smart. They have no literacy skills and they fall for scams at the same rate as boomers.
- as disgusting and racist as he is, Kirk’s tpusa shit they did on college campuses actually worked with those men/groups
It’s weird—this election doesn’t make me angry. It makes me want to get back in the classroom and out of administration, though. When I taught college, students would open up to me and some of this shit guys have bottled up is just disturbing. (The men in my classes were nearly always failing so asking “hey what’s up why aren’t you doing better in my class” usually brought on more and more conversation). So I can see why they feel everything is against them. I think the radical right gets them in through the bro-nature of it and then slowly works on the indoctrination so after a while, some of the vile shit that is being said, those guys don’t think it’s that bad and consider it just the next, reasonable step.