MicroWaveFeb 10, 2024

Americans, mostly women, are becoming more liberal: Gallup

https://lemmy.world/post/11792666

Americans, mostly women, are becoming more liberal: Gallup - Lemmy.World

American political ideology as a whole has shifted left in recent years, but women are becoming even more liberal, according to Gallup. The survey data, released Wednesday, shows that while the country remains largely center-right, the percentage of those identifying as or leaning liberal has increased over the past three decades, and is now just 1 percent under it’s all-time high. Roughly 36 percent of adults identify as conservative, 25 percent as liberal and the rest identify as either moderate or unsure, according to the poll. When broken down by gender ideology, women in the youngest and oldest age groups said they were more likely to identify as liberal. Women ages 18-29 were 40 percent more likely to be liberal in 2023, a slight decrease from 41 percent in 2022 and 44 percent in 2020, but still higher than the 30 percent in 2013. Those ages 65 and older were 25 percent more likely to identify as liberal — a slight increase from the 21 percent reported in 2013.

Show threadDessertStormsFeb 10, 2024

American political ideology as a whole has shifted left in recent years

Pfffffffffff... 😂🤦‍♀️
The American political landscape doesn't even have the left on it.

In all honesty, it's really fucking depressing that despite the blatant and open attack by one party on women's rights, and the complete impotence of the other to restore, or hell, even fucking address what bare minimum rights they once had, outside of a campaign speech, more women haven't realised that no one in the system is serving them, and shift to the actual left, but sadly the propaganda seems just too powerful (or on some cases, the other privileges still too comfortable to risk, even in the face of loss of autonomy to the state).

Show threadEcongradFeb 10, 2024
Agreeing with the morality of elective abortion does not equate to hating women or supporting women’s rights. There are a lot of women that are feminists that don’t support elective abortion. And it’s not something that you need to be a woman to have an opinion about considering it’s not just a woman’s body at stake.
Show threadTreeGhostFeb 10, 2024
Question for you. When there are shortages on organ donor lists that will cause people to die, should the government be able to compel heathy individuals to donate organs they don’t need? What about for blood shortages?
Show threadEcongradFeb 10, 2024

It’s not about bodily autonomy and so I reject the premise of your comparison. But to further through you askew I do support mandatory vaccination. The answer as with so many things is “it depends on the situation”.

It’s good to have principals but it’s also important to live in the real world and understand when there are exceptions because there are exceptions to every rule and only fundamentalists disagree with that.

Only sith deal in absolutes.

Show threadafraid_of_zombies

because there are exceptions to every rule

That sounds like a rule to me. Which means it has an exception. Which is a contradiction for the rule.

Feb 11, 2024 at 1:06amWeb
Show threadEcongradFeb 11, 2024
Welcome to the limitations of pure logic. There are limits to pure reason as Immanuel Kant observed.
Show threadafraid_of_zombiesFeb 11, 2024

Kant was full of shit. He whole philosophy is defeated the moment a non-human animal cares for its young. His fault for trying to prove Christianity was true.

In any case some of us care about what is true and what is not, which includes using the badic tools of logic. This is why there are no conservative intellectuals, when they lose the game they throw the board.

Show threadEcongradFeb 11, 2024

You think that you understand philosophy better than Immanual Kant?

I’m sorry but that’s just kind of ridiculous.