The New Republic: It’s Time for Democrats to Woo the Man Vote

rammo123 · 2025-02-18T09:20:42+00:00

Can't wait to read the headlines - "Democrats Abandon Women!" - the second they start treating men as anything but the enemy.

_WutzInAName_ · 2025-02-18T10:14:05+00:00

It’s not just that the Democratic Party has largely ignored men—its leadership has often been openly hostile toward men. Other Democrats are mostly silent in the face of that hostility, which implies consent.

The party is so blinded by gynocentrism and an anti-male mentality that it cannot even recognize its problem with men is self-inflicted, which makes solving that problem so much harder.

IronicStrikes · 2025-02-18T08:51:54+00:00

Best they can do is be surprised after every election loss.

Langland88 · 2025-02-18T10:21:31+00:00

For whatever reason, it's viewed as a zero sum game to even consider putting some care into issues that men are dealing with. You even dare to mention anything affecting men and it's immediately dismissed with rhetoric of historical oppression of women done by men. This has been an issue for decades now at this point but it seems like at least Democrats knew how to tow the line between men and women back in the 1990's or even during the Obama years. Nowadays Democrats have taken the gloves off and admitted they don't care about men. Well now the men have taken the gloves off as well.

Local-Willingness784 · 2025-02-18T15:58:44+00:00

First is acknowledging that young men now are one of those groups in need of help and attention, both for their own sake and for society at large, strategists say. “We have a real crisis in our country, about what young men are going through,” David Hogg said, and the consequences can be devastating, not just for the men’s individual health and advancement, but in preventing tragic outcomes. The lonely and alienated young man, after all, is a **prototype for a mass shooter—**a type Hogg, tragically, knows all too well. Just as the party talks about the health crisis women are in because of the loss of reproductive rights, Democrats need to be talking, too, about the growing suicide rate, especially among young men, Hogg said. Women got all kinds of attention in the media and by activists when they were remaking (and often) rejecting gender roles during the second wave of feminism and beyond. Men may need similar guidance now.

could it be more disingenuous? I'm sure that its a step forward on men's issues when they at least recognize the problem but if a Republican said that they need female voters to prevent the birth rates from collapsing, I'm sure that people on the left would get their panties twisted about objectification and being a means to an end instead of a person, but these people can and only do something for men because they need voters or because they fear violence instead of helping men because we are people with issues too?

again, its better than nothing, hell, even with the gender pay gap in the fucking article at least they recognize the suicides, that's huge, but holy shit, this society is wack with men.

Men_And_The_Election · 2025-02-18T16:58:18+00:00

I've been shouting this for years, I don't know why it's such a hard idea to comprehend that ignoring and even pissing off 48% of the voters is bad strategy.

Anyway, this is what I advocated in my book "How Democrats Can Win Back Men" (https://amzn.to/3z3R1Iz) which came out before the election, and I have recently reached out to the DNC as well. However, my patience is starting to wear thin.

Dapper_Platform_1222 · 2025-02-18T18:07:46+00:00

Absolutely wild stuff that it only took like 16 years to figure out men are half the electorate and are handing elections to the conservatives because conservatives acknowledge them. What will they discover next? Water is wet? Stove is hot?

iantingen · 2025-02-18T15:21:23+00:00

I think it's telling that a lot of *young* men / groups focused on young men are being vocal about this stuff - like a lot of men in this subreddit.

This is a wedge to use, time to set it and strike it. How?

Here are two techniques, one Personal and one Political:

Personal:

Send this article to *one friend* or *one text group* that takes you seriously.

Tell them you'd like them to read it, and talk about it with them. If they ask why, tell them that boys & men's issues are important to you, and that you trust them to be able to talk about important stuff with.

Political:

Articles like this should be sent to your local city councils, officials, and chambers of commerce. Ideally, you can email this to someone you could walk into city hall and get a meeting with.

Form letter:

Hello (Position, e.g. Councilmember) (Last Name)

My name is (your name) and I am a constituent residing in (your city).

I am concerned that (our city / county) is not attending to the issues that men and boys face.

If these issues are left unattended, there will be continuing consequences politically and socially in the years to come. Please see this article as one example: (link to article)

Who on your staff handles these issues? I would like to talk to your office about (how we can work together to address this crisis locally / how you're working to address these issues).

Sincerely,

(your name)

EDIT:

Forgot to mention why doing this is important!

Men's issues are one wave in a chaotic ocean; our job is to make that wave prominent in the minds of the people who support us and the politicians we can apply pressure to.

*We* need to be the masters of *our needs and narrative*. Articles like this support our mastery in two ways:

1) show it's not 'just us' thinking this way - the wave is bigger than us
2) they are jumping-off points for conversation and conversion, especially if repeated over time

BKEnjoyerV2 · 2025-02-19T13:38:35+00:00

The most difficult part about this I think is that many women/feminists will have to face the facts on biologically-driven stuff, do they really want men to be able to escape their gender role or do they not want to give up their romantic desires for a guy who fits those roles or even the social ones (like not considering men who don’t fit the norms creepy or weird or offputting or whatever).

I think this is a big roadblock to concrete policy change

kygardener1 · 2025-02-20T02:50:57+00:00

This brings to mind the Affordable Care Act. When the mandate was applied men would be paying more in taxes to subsidize women's healthcare. I'm actually okay with that. It is better for society. However, I would expect at some point for Democrats to do something specifically to help men out.

The ACA was passed in 2010. Now in 2025 they are like "Oh geez, this came out of nowhere. I guess we should do something for men."

Just to mention mandate was struck down in 2019.

Excellent_You5494 · 2025-02-22T04:28:09+00:00

The problem with most democrat men is that they believe they are privileged oppressors.

They don't see anything wrong with the male condition, and the ones who do mostly see it from the feminist standpoint.

As a centrist, I don't feel the democrat party deserves help at this point.

I mean, the Libertarians don't care about most of it, but at least they know men are not some bourgeois class.

But I would would encourage left wing MRAs to make content for the MRM, maybe the democrats will listen, might even get a place in gender studies, finally.

Title	The New Republic: It’s Time for Democrats to Woo the Man Vote
Author	_WutzInAName_
Upvotes	97
Comments	39
Date	February 17, 2025 11:55 PM UTC (1 year ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates
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