Conservatives WIN young men because of Leftists like this!
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In this episode, I discuss a recent video put out by the Canadian progressive YouTuber Steves Boots discussing why young men are breaking conservative across the western political spectrum. It's a great case study of why this is happening, and a case study in which highlights the problem with social studies and other social studies, which is that they fail to address the root cause of the problem.
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want to take a second to show you some shocking data it is from last year and it shows how young
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men are breaking conservative broadly in a range of countries there's always hey guys
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wyatt claypool here today i want to talk about this video put out by the canadian progressive
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youtuber steve boots discussing the topic of why young men are starting to vote conservative all
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around the west it's a great case study because at the same time he's trying to understand and
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explain why young men are starting to move in this way politically he completely misses the point in
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fact in a strange way steve boots misses the point so hard he comes all the way back around and
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perfectly models why young men do not want to vote for parties like the ndp that steve boots frequently
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stumps for just check out this clip right here so the question we need to ask is why is this happening
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and i want to be really clear before we start here this is not about coddling or making excuses
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for young men what i'm asking folks to do is to look at the systems and circumstances that are
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pushing young men in those directions the man is such a progressive zealot that even in this video
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entitled why are men voting conservative he cannot acknowledge that men may actually have some good
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points he has to give a disclaimer to his audience that no no no i'm not coddling or making any excuses
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for these young men i'm just also wanting to blame institutions and systems for having contributed
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to their corruption it's a video where he doesn't actually care why young men are voting conservative
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he just doesn't like that they're not voting for the left that is really the thesis of this video
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young men should be voting left why are they not voting left not do young men have legitimate
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reasons for voting conservative he frames it all as they're doing something wrong let's figure out
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why they're doing something wrong because i think we need to be able to think with a little more
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depth than just men are evil that clip really made me laugh because steve boots is trying to define
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himself as a reasonable moderate in this conversation because he doesn't think that young men are evil
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wow what a consolation prize for young men that steve here doesn't think they're evil although in the
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previous clip of steve talking that i just showed he was framing young men as the villains which is why
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he is not going to coddle or make excuses for them because while there are indeed evil men out there there
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are evil people of all genders and simply being a man does not make someone by definition evil so what
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is actually going on here because a lot of it comes down to belief around traditional roles and gender
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roles in particular but it also includes things like beliefs around authority young men have grown
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increasingly authoritarian oh absolutely steve young men are growing increasingly authoritarian and
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that's why they're voting for conservative parties that want to do dangerous authoritarian things like
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cut taxes reduce regulations cut funding to wasteful government programs make it easier to get a gun
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license you know things like that that would be right at home in nazi germany or fascist italy this is
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all rather ridiculous coming from steve boots a big government supporting socialist who has endorsed hate
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speech laws he just defines authoritarianism as being whatever he doesn't support so if young men want
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smaller government that by definition is authoritarian because steve boots wants big government he does
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include an asinine example where he cites a poll where 25 of young men in the united states would support
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the president having powers unrestrained by congress but that's more just political naivete of younger
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people being frustrated that things the president's doing that they like can be blocked by congress
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that's just a feature of the american system that people eventually learn about and accept for starters we
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need to ask where do the expectations and beliefs that young men hold come from because they don't just
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blow in on the wind they are taught they are pushed into young people from an early age and online
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ecosystems just exasperated it's not just from parents although a very large portion of it's from
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parents one of the bigger determinants in a young man's attitude and behavior is his relationship with
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his father or a trusted male adult figure positive male role models lead to positive behavior now he's
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just done a few things here that are kind of odd he implies that young men are learning conservatism from
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like school or growing up when in fact in schools today you tend to have more of a left-wing narrative
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taught when it comes to social studies and other social issues so really it's that younger men are
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rejecting what is being taught in schools and then he moves on to talking about positive male role models
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and father figures he implies as if you should be coming out as a leftist if you had a positive
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relationship with your father or male role model it's absolutely insane because the stereotype tends
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to be the other way around that if you don't like your dad you may become a resentful leftist not that
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that's actually how it works but the stereotype is that way sort of for a reason but there is a
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shortage of positive online male role models look online if you were a young man in particular spending
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time online where would you likely spend that time roblox fortnite youtube youtube is absolutely
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packed with male-centric content that reinforces traditional ideals stuff like jordan peterson
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and joe rogan and theo von a lot of these incredibly widely viewed youtube accounts are
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embracing a much more traditional view of masculinity and of society in general and this shows up in
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the statistics young men are broadly less and less feminist and more and more embracing of
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traditional often exploitative gender roles he just implies that traditional values and gender roles
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are inherently bad and that men should want to identify as feminists because he highlights it as
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an issue that they don't want to identify as feminists anymore and he's about to bring up a chart
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that i think actually just hurts his own point because it demonstrates many women also agree with those
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same men 17 of overall people under the age of 35 believe that a man who stays home to care for his
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children is less of a man according to a recent ipsos survey but when you break it out into men versus
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women 26 of men under the age of 35 believe that compared to 10 of women and only 41 of young men
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identify themselves as feminists so where are these beliefs coming from now let's just quickly
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over and pull the parking brake and look at this chart a little bit more in detail look at the women
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under 35 side of the chart and look at the question i define myself as a feminist now this is a
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question that obviously should get more women to agree because it's basically saying you're a woman
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are you pro-woman that's how a lot of people will think about it even though that's not really what
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being a feminist means even for that question there were 38 of women who didn't agree perhaps someone
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like steve boots would claim those women are just experiencing internalized misogyny or maybe they
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also can see what many young men see as being the flaw with feminist culture right now and there's a
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bunch of part of it but one of the biggest reasons is that people cling on to tradition in uncertainty
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when people are scared when people don't know what life or the future holds for them often they will
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hold on to tradition hold on to the old ways of doing things because it gives them a sense of
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stability and control again he just talks about tradition that way without actually explaining
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why it's bad and i think young people in general but young men in particular feel a lack of control
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over their lives they are told from a very early age that their role is the provider the source of
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strength and stability and if they don't feel like they can do that it creates a lot of internal
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turmoil but at the same time they aren't really being given the tools or the supports in order to
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manage that or to unpack those beliefs or feelings this whole video and especially the next sections
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is just steve boots belittling the problems of younger men and acting like it's just a social
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problem like he just needs to be able to sit young men down so that he can unpack all of their issues
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explain to them concisely why they're all wrong and so that they can realize that they should just
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fall in line and that everything is actually totally okay in the new progressive world obviously it's
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not just look at the unemployment rate of younger men he will eventually talk about job market problems
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and the housing market and other stuff like that but he kind of just skims past it like i understand
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there's issues out there but don't take it out on the current system right now if you're 15 to 24 and
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male you have a 15 unemployment rate in canada if you're going to university and you're a student your
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unemployment rate is 20 and remember the unemployment rate is only calculating those actually looking
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for work it's not including people who don't want a job and don't have one those are people trying to
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find a job 20 of them cannot find one that is unprecedented and so when you have online pundits
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or even political leaders who are speaking directly to young men and saying that they understand their
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concerns and offering simple answers whether those answers are valid or not they tend to listen and
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that's what's happening the online manosphere is colossal and a license to print money and this
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is where politics comes into it right now conservatives are the group that are speaking the most directly
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to young men this is where steve boots i think is just making a wrong assumption an assumption i see
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a lot of people in politics make that because conservatives are capturing the young male vote that must
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mean the conservatives are speaking to young men and the liberals the ndp and the greens are not
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no it's that younger men like the answers that the conservatives had every party tries to win
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every demographic of voter they all try and speak to them the problem for the ndp and the liberals is
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that young men don't want more government in their lives they don't want higher taxes to pay for more
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social programs subsidies government jobs they want to have their own adventure in life where they start
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their own business or they go find work in the private sector they have their own home they don't
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want government housing they want their own housing they buy with their own money this is a difference in
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temperament between men and women women are more likely to vote for security where men are more likely to
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want to take risks in life and have there be more freedom for them to operate as they want the ndp and the liberals
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don't offer that that's why the conservatives do so well with young men because they do offer that
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then they go online and they're offered easy scapegoats they're told to blame feminism and wokeness
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and trudeau and the libs and everybody they are offered simple solutions and so they take them
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okay i'm sorry are men not allowed to take issue with hyper progressive feminist culture even 38%
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of women we just saw do not define themselves as feminist are men not allowed to take issue with
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the liberals big government policies that have definitely not empowered them in the market or
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made their lives better and apparently we're also not allowed to believe that simple solutions exist
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because i guess that's just a simplistic dumb way of thinking i can come up with lots of simple
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solutions for young men cut taxes is one of them you will immediately make the economy freer and give
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them way more opportunities but again steve boots sees those as illegitimate answers because he's a
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leftist and supports leftist policies this entire video is just a way of trying to pitch leftism as the
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solution to men's problems which in itself is simplistic but he doesn't see it as simplistic
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because he's a leftist and leftist ideology is super super intellectual they are living in systems
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that they didn't build and that in many ways they are victims of but because in many cases men are the
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architects of these systems they're told that they bear the blame and the responsibility but men are not
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only the architects of these systems they are also the victims and from here on in the video steve boots
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pretends to care about the problems of young men by bringing things up like the suicide rate and
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substance abuse but up to this point he has just been belittling the things that many young men who
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now vote conservative take issue with because again unless it's a leftist solution he doesn't actually see
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it as a real solution and these people wonder why younger men don't want to vote for their parties
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they won't even acknowledge their problems but they think that they should still listen to their
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solutions for the problems that they belittle and pretend are not real problems one more thing i
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want to bring up that wasn't specific to this video is that a lot of young men are also starting
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to vote conservative because they don't want to be like people like steve boots young men do not like
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this leftist millennial loser culture where you dress up like you don't really care you act sort of
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whiny and snide all the time there's a reason why younger men look up to fictional characters who are
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more masculine who wear suits or are more physically fit that's actually becoming cool again where it was
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seen as very passe in the 2000s and 2010s because that's the typical western thing to idolize but why
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don't we idolize alternative things that are anti-western or are very outside of the mainstream
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the problem is that became the mainstream this loser culture where you just act like you don't care
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everything sucks our history sucks our country sucks and we should have to transform it and turn
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it into something that it's not young men don't like that garbage and now to put a cap on this video
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i want to leave you with a video of steve boots freaking out over an interview where pierre paulia
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of the leader of the conservative party stated that he only believes in two genders and by the way if
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