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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRight-wing media escalate attacks on young women voters following Democratic election wins across the country
In the wake of Democrats sweeping election victories across the country on November 4, right-wing media quickly focused their ire on young women, who voted overwhelmingly for Democratic candidates.
Figures across right-wing media expressed fear over the demographic, with Newsmax host Carl Higbie labeling liberal white women as the biggest threat to America they will literally vote for their own destruction and take everyone down with them. The response from right-wing media to women exercising their right to vote ramps up a trend of conservative voices attacking liberal women in the past year.
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/right-wing-media-escalate-attacks-young-women-voters-following-democratic-election-wins
no_hypocrisy
(53,744 posts)I like that.
ananda
(33,962 posts)Liberal old women vote too, and not just
white either, thank you very much.
irisblue
(36,552 posts)Until some of them want their Mom to bring down a sandwich & more Mt Dew & cheetos
FakeNoose
(39,444 posts)mwmisses4289
(2,751 posts)They appear to not only hate themselves, but everyone who isn't like them.
OldBaldy1701E
(9,487 posts)It is the only thing that they know.
kimbutgar
(26,471 posts)Every maga I know has told me they had lousy childhoods. my two friends who stopped talking to me in 2016 and my maga brother in law who barely acknowledges me and his Mother telling me her late husband, my BILs father was not a kind man and was bit of a sadist.
OldBaldy1701E
(9,487 posts)For whatever reasons. However, the ability to feel love is inside of all of us as human beings. I had a rough childhood, but I did not shut out love or compassion. They have done that and more.
I feel that they decided to ignore and refuse love, because being little shits got them off more than normal living.
Just my opinion on it.
liberalgunwilltravel
(993 posts)Someone to blame for their own poor choices in life that resulted in the miserable waste their lives have become.
multigraincracker
(36,697 posts)Throwing rocks at a hornet nest.
Lonestarblue
(13,115 posts)MAGA should look at the people they support, like the Young Republicans who revealed their hatred of minorities and LGBTQ+, and the desire to take away womens right to vote. Red states have already taken away their access to life-saving reproductive healthcare.
And look at their idols. Right-wingers like Charlie and Erika Kirk who preached at womens role was in the home making babies. With Charlie dead, Nick Fuentes seems to be gaining more followers. He promotes Christian nationalism, white supremacy, misogyny, anti-LGBTQ views, and antisemitism including Holocaust denial. His supporters are known as Groypers. (From Wikipedia)
MAGA and Republicans are against helping people in need and want to get rid of Medicaid, SNAP, and any program that provides aid to poor people.
The question should be why young white men arent as smart as young women and continue voting for Republicans who do absolutely nothing for them except making them misfits in life in a decent society.
Mr. Sparkle
(3,549 posts)The motto of the republican party should be , "It's there fault."
Paladin
(31,988 posts)liberalgunwilltravel
(993 posts)The big strong men are afraid the women? Not a surprise.
Orrex
(66,376 posts)"Blue states stayed blue. Meh."
Sure. Despite the tons of reichwing poured into races that went strongly blue, they're pitching the election as no big deal, and certainly not a referendum on the sacred orange prolapse.
Qutzupalotl
(15,595 posts)Any soul-searching would take a team of detectives armed with microscopes.
LaMouffette
(2,551 posts)young liberal women are bright, well educated, and courageous, and they do not suffer fools!
The women's liberation movement of the 70s put an end to succumbing mindlessly to that patriarchal mindset, for the majority of women, anyway.
We are strong. We are invincible. We are women!
FakeNoose
(39,444 posts)You know, back when we were burning our bras and declaring ourselves "liberated."
I've been voting for the Dems ever since I reached voting age in 1972 .....
Biophilic
(6,263 posts)JT45242
(3,732 posts)That was why they had pricks like Charlie Kirk praising 'trad wives'. They want to undo everything since 1861.
tanyev
(48,279 posts)they dont actually mean the 1950s.
WmChris
(499 posts)Newsmax host Carl Higbie labeling liberal white women as the biggest threat to America they will literally vote for their own destruction and take everyone down with them. This is exactly what the Repukes are brainwashing their MAGAT cult members to do.
Just Jerome
(386 posts)old white cis straight bald guys?!
Wheres our disrespect?
A_Steel_Magnolia
(110 posts)Gemini Christmas! Women (and other people) who sacrifice themselves in service to everyone else's opinions of who they should be can be used, abused, and ultimately tossed into the dustbin of other peoples' lives. Meanwhile, those same women become invisible to themselves and society. Comments like "I lost myself" or "I don't have to have an opinion" reflect a loss of confidence born of selflessness. How's that for irony? We women in the boomer generation dumbed ourselves down to appeal to and not offend, intimidate or threaten male egos. Look, pointing fingers is an exercise in futility.
The issues are sociological, behavioral and economic exacerbated by technology, so it's complicated. As women stand up and step up today, the push back is inevitable; nothing new! The only way out is through, and there is a lot of work to do...
valleyrogue
(2,463 posts)are politically stupid and easily conned. Heaven forbid they will ever admit they vote wrong.
70sEraVet
(5,110 posts)We have to attend college for a few years if we want to even be considered on the same level as women.
You can ask my wife!
-misanthroptimist
(1,529 posts)It is education that makes the difference. Last I checked, more women than men were college educated.
(Fellow 70s vet here. Can't believe it's been 50 years!)
Raftergirl
(1,758 posts)She was still working to GOTV in Florida when Covid hit and shut down most of her work. Last election she didnt do as much, given her age.
My dad was also a staunch liberal.
Mister Ed
(6,744 posts)That describes the MAGA base perfectly.