A popular narrative suggests young people are liberal and getting more liberal. Thus, social media buzzed when a chart surfaced in spring that seemed to suggest 12th-grade boys had become overwhelm…

While many believe young people are becoming more liberal, data shows that 12th grade boys are nearly twice as likely to identify as conservative compared to liberal. Around 25% of high school seniors identify as conservative while only 13% identify as liberal. In contrast, the share of 12th grade girls identifying as liberal has risen to 30%. Many factors may contribute to this trend, including the rhetoric of Donald Trump which appealed to disaffected young men, and the focus of progressive movements on issues of gender and racial equality which some young men perceive as a “matriarchy.” However, most high school seniors claim no political identity, and many boys in high school do not actively discuss

  • mobyduck648@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I’ve always suspected the British class system looks really weird to foreigners, to be honest it looks weird to us too when we sit down and think about it. George Orwell talks about it in England your England which even today remains one of the best things ever written on the subject I think. The monarchy is an odd one because a fairly large majority of people genuinely like the pomp and ceremony according to polling, the idea of a US-style directly elected presidency with a partisan politician in the role is legitimately unpopular in the UK. I think if we ever did become a republic our system would probably look to Ireland’s general approach as it’s the most directly comparable machinery of government in Europe.

    London is particularly severe for demonstrating inequality but you see it all over the place, my hometown of Oxford has a delightful club two of the last four Tory PMs used to belong to whose initiation rites include burning a £50 note in front of a homeless person.