Women are becoming politically liberal, as men lean conservative
Posted By RichC on December 14, 2024
Although I’m glad the 2024 presidential election is behind us in the United States (and hope Kamala Harris becomes a lost memory), there’s a lot of angst in our country and in the world over the political direction and change. I’m cautiously, optimistic that a Trump administration will have a foreign policy that leads to less war and killing (peace through strength) and that it will economically gives the United States an opportunity to innovate and grow our economy again (and shrink government — but call me dubious). I know, it is a tall order.
A concerning chart was floating around on social media from Financial Times (FT.com) early this month and it points out a significant change over the years in the difference between young men and women’s political ideology. One thing looks clear to me, men worldwide tend to trend more conservative and women are becoming more liberal … or in current day U.S. political speak, progressive. Hm, why the dichotomy?
I saw a long post from Kevyn Nightingale, a Canadian, on Quora.com but will only include the last couple of paragraphs:
Progressives believe the government can make the world better. A large number of us reject that premise. That’s part of what happened with the election of Donald Trump (no, I didn’t vote for him; I’m Canadian).
So here we are. In America today, “liberals” are modern-day socialists, of varying stripes. “Progressives” are just those on the left-er end of that spectrum. “Socialists” like Bernie Sanders are further out than that; they look for a system like those in the Nordic countries.
Conservatives are everybody else. Libertarians mostly hang out with conservatives, because they’re willing to accept them into the tent. That’s mostly a blue-team vs red-team thing, though. And because so many American conservatives are religiously oriented, the red team will always contain significant tension.
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