The Left's Men Problem: Why Politics Lost Working Class Males - Ross Rocketto

Ross Morales Rocketto is a Democratic political strategist, co-founder of Run for Something, and one of the most candid voices in progressive politics willing to say what most won't: the left has a men problem.Working class men, young men, and men of color are walking away from political institutions that once claimed to represent them — and the physical spaces where men once gathered, connected, and built identity have quietly disappeared. What's filling that vacuum is the question that should make every political leader uncomfortable. Ross Morales Rocketto doesn't sidestep it.Expect to learn why working class men are disengaging from progressive politics in numbers that have shifted national elections, what the collapse of third spaces — bars, unions, civic clubs, and houses of worship — has done to male community and identity, who is successfully reaching men in the current political moment and what they're getting right, why the loneliness epidemic and the political realignment of men are the same story told in different language, what the left consistently gets wrong about masculinity and why it matters beyond politics, how to have productive conversations about men's issues without the culture war framing, what a political identity that actually speaks to where men are right now might look like and much more...Get in touch in the comments below or head to...Website: www.weslambert.meEmail: [email protected]: https://substack.com/@weslambertSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Yv1ciX90C3zdPxD67kjyY?si=7591bc0f32da4f23Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mature-male/id1805978833