David Hogg offers an explanation for why Democrats lost so much support among young men, and he resorts to the standard Democrat answer for everything: People just wanna swing, baby! They gots to get dey freak on!
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NEW: David Hogg gets a huge reaction from Bill Maher after saying Democrats need to reconnect with young men who just want to "get laid and have fun" without walking on eggshells.
He said the parties have flipped. Democrats are now the snobs that judge your every move.
"What I think happened last election is younger men--they would rather vote for somebody who they don't completely agree with, they don't feel judged by, than somebody who they do agree with, that they feel like they have to walk on eggshells around constantly because they're going to be judged or ostracized or excommunicated."
And because of that, young men are walking away.
"Nobody is perfect. But ultimately, what we have to do here is figure out how to bring people back in and work towards the bigger goal of advancing the future of this country and helping young people especially get by, so that they're able to focus on their lives and getting with a young woman or something like that, instead of how are they going to pay their rent, for example, or how are they working their two jobs.
"Young people should be able to focus on what young people should be focused on, which is how to get laid and how to go and have fun."
Maher clapped, stood up, and shook Hogg's hand after that comment.
The newsy, clippable bit of Hogg's interview/discussion with Maher was his diagnosis for why men are fleeing the party, and in particular for why younger men have been leaving in droves after having hewed the line within the party for years: young men want to get laid and have fun, and the Democratic Party has been the party of killjoys.
In acknowledging this, he's not entirely wrong, but neither is he entirely right. The Democrat Party is entirely fine with young men having fun and even getting laid--the party is absolutely obsessed with sex, and only likes freedom in any form if it includes consensual sex between queers or in front of a computer screen.
But Hogg doesn't seem to get that the problem goes much deeper than Democrats' focus on promoting a pleasure-based lifestyle for everybody but heterosexual men. It's that the Democrats hate masculinity per se, and are deeply hostile to the aspirations of men that go far beyond mere sexual pleasure (which men indeed do seek out and love).
As Strom said, I'm sure young men object to the Democrat Party constantly "problematizing" their every desire and every action and shaming them for just having a normal straight male interest in the opposite sex. But of course that's only the start of it -- the left does nothing but attack men for everything they want and everything they do. It's not just sex. It's literally everything.
Men do not have any place in the Democrat Party's worldview. The only acceptable aspiration for straight men is to be allies to leftwing AWFL women and gays. That's the most they can aspire to be -- a supporting character in a more deserving Female or Gay Main Character's story of empowerment.
If anyone dares to say "What, are men just snowflakes who can't take criticism" -- let me reply has made it de facto illegal to ever criticize any of their constituent identity blocs. The snowflakes who demand validation for every single thing they do cannot object to someone else saying "We're tired of being treated as shit and as scapegoats for every failure of a leftwing woman or gay dude."
Also, of course, the Democrat Party set up a system to convict men of rape without evidence -- and against the actual evidence, which is suppressed -- in college show-trials.
Ed Driscoll quotes an author and illustrator named -- let me double check if I have this right -- "Christopher R. Taylor," whoever that is.
Here's this "Christopher R. Taylor" character:
We're in a strange place culturally today. Its been quite a while since moralistic prudes have tried so hard to control private and public behavior and instill specific, exact legalistic codes on society. And the oddest thing about it is that this new push is coming from the exact people who just a few years ago told us "if it feels good, do it."
The people who gave us raunchy sex comedies like Porky's in the 80s and American Pie in the 00's are now telling us that anything remotely like that behavior totally disqualifies you from public service, let alone private life.
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After spending 50 years tearing down everything everyone held dear, mocking morality, breaking apart a system of ethics and behavior, cynically undermining all sense of public etiquette and cultural norms... now we're being told everything they said to do is all wrong.
Suddenly what pretty much everyone has done in the past is grounds for dismissal and attack. Went to parties and got drunk? Now you're a sinister potential rapist. Got a diary accounting for where you went and what you did? Got witnesses? You might need them now; all it takes is a woman to suddenly remember something she says you did, and a political benefit and you're doomed.
I've written about this in the past, how the left tore out the skeleton of our culture, leaving it unable to stand or function. They've taken every pain to remove all traces of what was once the system of ethics and behavior the nation generally agreed upon and which makes up the very core of a society. Now, they want to suddenly replace it all, with something new and even more prudish.
I wish some of you Morons could write some smart stuff like that.