What went wrong? - The Manosphere to Alt-Right pipeline
To make sense of the results, you need to analyze where Trumps surge in votes came from. Leeja Miller laid it all out over a year ago.
A couple of years ago, while I was in a role where I had free time, I spent a lot of time on Youtube to learn things, and to just expand my horizons1.
One of the accounts I stumbled on was Leeja Miller, a lawyer who was building a creator ecosystem and ultimately, she left the big firm, started a small firm, and focused on her dual career path.
She brings deep research and analysis to her videos that you would expect from an attorney.
While at times she goes a little too far to the far-left progressive sphere, she still does a LOT of videos on important social issues and trends.
With that out of the way, about a year ago, she did a piece wherein a 25 minute video, she does a good view of the growing path from disaffected young men, into the alt-right (aka MAGA) pipeline.
Indeed, with the results from the recent US Presidential election where the Trump campaign effectively mobilized these lost-boys to capture both the Electoral College, and the Popular vote.
Watch this, and see if you are nodding your head.
Ok, yes, I was just fucking around…
Republicans are REALLY good at the politics of resentment. They convinced all these young men that the reason their prospects aren’t as good as their fathers and grandfathers were is some girl with a nose-ring rather than the financial wizards and tycoons who sent all their jobs out of the country. That’s some skill. Or maybe we’re just REALLY stupid and gullible. I can’t quite make up my mind.
Civics, media literacy, social-emotional learning and all the other things kids could be taught in schools and no longer are - or never were - being educated in. Kids lost so much during COVID and we’ve just pushed that aside and moved on like it never happened. There are people who are trying to do work in this space, but for the next 4 years, at a minimum, the rage fires will be stoked to a full burn if we don’t figure out a way to slow it down. I am somewhat hopeful that Donald will do this for us as there is only so far rage will carry you if the rest of the world is falling apart because of the actions of the guy you thought was going to save you from all the terrible women being mean to you and the world that feels you no longer have value. Part of this ethos is *owning the libs* which is why I don’t understand why people (like your girl, JoJoFromJerz) who insist upon staying in their space (Twitter) to keep fighting with them. I don’t get it. If we leave them to their own devices, the radicalization may deepen, but without people on the left to argue with, what pleasure center is being titillated? The rage is 90% of the battle with these guys. The more that they can *trigger the libs* into fighting with them, the more superior they feel because they’ve drawn you in and you’ve taken the bait. Let it lie. See what happens. Personally, I think that with no one to argue with but themselves, they’ll turn on each other.