I live in Texas but I’m seeing these Georgia results and I’m honestly shocked at how far left the south has shifted. I live in Texas which is red for now but I feel it will flip. I do think think a good portion of this has to do with people moving to red states. I’ll never understand people who move from blue states, complain about high taxes, and then vote for the same policies. Doesn’t help either that public schools are propaganda factories.
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I'm going to sound like another user here, but at the real core of it I blame feminism. Primarily when it got to the point that it drove men out of homes and created a bunch of kids growing up in single parent homes with little to no male influence.
Despite what you're supposed to believe anymore, men and women are different. Think about if a little kid playing and do something stupid and skin your knee. Come in crying and Dad says "yep you're still alive, maybe next time don't be so stupid". Mom on the other hand, "aww you poor baby, let me get you fixed up oh and you can't play outside like that anymore it's not safe you're going to get hurt". Yeah, I simplify things into cutesy little anecdote but the point is you're supposed to have different point of views growing up and these roles were built into how men and women were.
Now though, you've got a couple generations raised mostly by women that have only one side of the equation. It makes a huge group of bleeding hearts that are just oh so worried about rescuing people from all their atrocities with love and government assistance when what these people really need is to be told, "yep you're still alive, maybe next time don't be so stupid". Add in some politicians wanting power to sell this to them and here we are. You could see this in the debates with Biden this year, how many times did Biden turn to the camera and project his little pre-written sob stories about the empty chair at the dining table and how he can't just leave these poor helpless people for themselves, etc. Every time I saw that he was just ticking boxes in these huge groups of people's heads.
Extra bonus accelerants in the form of unwasted crisis viruses and election fraud, and here we are.
I don't doubt it. I was just thinking a few weeks ago about things I did as a kid and comparing with my nephew and some other kids I know. I was never some macho type either, I was the stereotypical sucky at sports computer nerd. Still, I was playing with hammers, nails, saws, knives, all kinds of stuff trying to build generally fruitless projects or whatever at least as young as 7 and often unsupervised.
If I hadn't had my dad or my grandfathers growing up, I have no idea what I would have turned out like but I have a feeling it's like a lot of these soy men. I'd never say my mother wouldn't have been well intentioned, but just that women aren't as well equipped to know when to let boys do boy things and when to let them solve their own problems and not swoop in and do it all for them.
I spoke at length with a young co-worker a few weeks ago. He confided in me that his family was awful - alcoholic unemployed parents, extended family in prison, shitty childhood, etc.
This dude is also massively leftist to the point where he supports UBI and most socialist policy. He's an otherwise intelligent and kind person, but his economic understanding is nonexistent.
I'm rambling, but the point is he supports far-left policy because he thinks the state can fill the void left by dysfunctional families. When I pointed out that these policies are paid for by successful families in the form of massive taxes, he had no response.
I don't believe most leftists are consciously trying to destroy families in order to create new left-wing voters, but I do think this is an unconsciously evolved strategy that generates a massively positive outcome for their movement.