Welcome to the new reality we’re all dealing with south of your border too.

Have you loaded YouTube without logging in or cookies lately? Holly fuck is it bad. Just misogynist clickbait slop. All of it.

We as a society completely ignored teen boys and especially what they were looking at online for over a decade and then we locked them all inside for a couple years during their most formative years while only giving them access to the Internet.

there are adults, mostly men, who have been grooming them for years.

Because of misogynistic, male “influencers”, who are also extreme right-winged nuts: Peterson, Tate, Shapiro, etc...

Firstly - They probably grew up or came into voting age under a Trudeau government. They don't know what it's like to live under an awful Conservative government. They also blame the federal government for things outside of its control.

Secondly - Younger people are superglued to social media which is a completely unchecked and unregulated IV-shot of manipulation and disinformation.

Thirdly - Political education is extremely poor. People simply do not understand how government works at any level and they don't care to know. BC's last provincial election saw a sizeable amount of people vote for the BCCons party because they wanted to get rid of Trudeau... in a provincial election. People blame governments for things they cannot control and demand governments to fix things that they cannot.

Fourthly - Right wing groups are intentionally targeting disenfranchised youth, particularly young men. To say we are going to deal with a new generation of ultra-toxic masculinity is an understatement, but that mentality usually leans right.

Andrew Tate targets 14 year old boys

I saw a post on Reddit about a person in their early thirties who had done everything "right" but was being evicted so their landlord could raise the rent. They couldn't find a place in their community that they could afford.

This is the world that kids are entering: it's hard to find a decent job; and unless you have family money, you'll spend most of your income on rent.

It's totally understandable they want to kick the incumbents out. And it's fucking depressing that there's no progressive politician in Canada presenting a viable alternative.

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