Talk to Young Ladies

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A recent poll conducted by McLaughlin and Associates for the Media Research Center showed that most Democrats and Independents did not know the policy positions taken by Kamala Harris.  These folks will be voting, canceling out the votes of those who are informed.

Is this a case of benign detachment or willful ignorance?  It may be some of both but likely it is also just a matter of habit in the way they access information.

71% did not know that Kamala Harris has backed defunding the police and that she actively raised bail money for rioting BLM members.

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75% did not know she backed the radical Green New Deal.

71% did not know she had backed reparations.

75% did not know Kamala Harris was judged the most liberal Senator.

77% did not know she has advocated the abolishment of ICE to protect the border.

72% did not know she was the “Border Czar”,  and put in charge of the crisis at the Southern Border.

86%  did not know she had backed the idea of having death row inmates vote.

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How can such appalling ignorance be so pervasive in a world swimming in information?

Well, the answer comes with further examination of where they likely get information.  Just over half said they get their information on politics from broadcast television.  Cable news got 41% and social media a little over 34%.

The chokehold progressives have on most of broadcast journalism and social media is very evident. This is largely true of local television news as well. Politically speaking, you are what you read and hear and not enough young people are reading independent or citizen journalism but depending largely on corporate journalism such as ABC News, owned by Disney.

Despite the recent controversy over Amazon’s Alexa, only about 17% got their information from search engines.

There also is a particular subset of the “greatest ignorant generation”, that either does not know much or is trending leftward, and that is young women.

Unmarried young women in particular have been trending Democrat in the past few years, and many hold this for the failure of the “Red Wave” a few years ago to materialize in the last election cycle.

According to Joel Kotkin, a keen observer of social trends, since the overturning of Roe v. Wade childless urban women are joining African Americans as the most dependable block of voters for Democrats.

This is not just a problem of ignorant youth. Young men are trending more conservatively while women are headed in the other direction.

This might be caused by the dominance of 4th wave feminism in our culture, encouraged by DEI initiatives, and the fact many more women are attending college than men.  Colleges and universities are reliable incubators of radical feminism.

Still, that does not account for why even being a feminist, they don’t know Kamala Harris has urged defunding of the police and has been largely responsible for letting in hoards of criminal and mental patients, many of whom prey on young women.  Nor do they seem to connect Bidenomics with the reality of rising rent and food prices, which affect women just as surely as men.

It may be that since Kamala Harris is a woman, and a woman of color, that is sufficient for them because it hits their tribal feminism button and they don’t need further information.  We say tribal button because Kotkin believes this is all linked to the rise of identity politics, which is the main selling point of Democrats and progressives.  This “group consciousness” becomes important because the well-being and treatment of women, generally speaking, becomes critical to their own lives.  It is sort of the political manifestation of Taylor Swift’s lyrics.

That is why many advise Trump not to attack Kamala or call her stupid even though she attacks him on a personal level.  Just show the facts and her positions, and let the voter intuit that she is stupid.  But it is not clear even that hits the primordial emotions of the sisterhood in quite the right way.

Married women, by contrast, are much more conservative, and that is true even in blue states.  So this gets confusing.  It is not just that they are female, it is that they are unmarried and in many cases, dependent on the state for support.  Such women may not have a high opinion of men (because they have not found a good man), but they have a high opinion government. Remember the government-produced videos on the life of Julia?

Why would married women be more informed than unmarried women?  They both are concerned about women, aren’t they?  Maybe the reality of having a husband and children makes one think of the broader needs of society and the climate in which to have a family, while the unmarried are focused on themselves.  This exclusive focus on the self makes one oblivious to information that is available.

It is not clear how to break through to this cohort of people.  Certainly, inflation, a ruptured border, and a crime wave are not good for young women any more than it is for anyone else.  Inflation and personal safety should be issues that strike close to home.

It is also quite obvious that if men can pretend to be women, replace women, and reduce real women to “birthing persons”, the whole idea of womanhood, or women’s rights is being obliterated.  This is a huge threat to women being presented by the Left and young women need to understand this.

Trump’s position on abortion is nuanced and he is not a purist.  This has raised the ire of the right-to-life movement, but he is not an extremist on the issue, but he is perceived to be. He wants it largely left to the states.  Most Republicans are resigned to abortion today but want to see limitations, such as not killing the baby when it has reached viability or can feel the pain of being torn limb from limb.  This is not an ideal position from which to argue that the state should protect life, but that is where we are in our culture right now. But surely young women can understand that if you want an abortion, don’t cause the baby to suffer a horrible and painful death. Is that too much to ask?  They would not do that if they wanted to be free of their cat, would they?

Democrat advertising plays a role in this but some just regard Trump and Republicans as somehow as anti-women, even though he has always given women key roles both in his business enterprise and in his political operation.

As some commentators have noted, Trump has lost points over Stormy Daniels, an affair with a side chick.  What seems to be lost on many is that Kamala’s rise to power was functioning as that “side chick”.

Thus, we think arguing safety, a good economy, low inflation, no needless wars, and exposing the agenda of the radical transgenders, should resonate with women, but we could be wrong. Their feelings of group empowerment over having a woman elected may subsume all other factors.

We think of the famous quip from Will Rodgers: ” There are two ways of arguing with a woman. Neither work”.  That of course, is a male-centric observation.

It would seem that conservative women talking to young women would be particularly helpful, as older males might be perceived as condescending. Thus, conservative women need to reach out like never before to younger women.  Your life experience and empathy might have more influence than you think.

Reject the cynicism. If you have the opportunity to interact with young women and engage in a discussion, do so in a respectful way and tell them the future of the country may hinge on their decision.

It does in more ways than just the coming election.

 

 

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