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I can’t believe I’m saying this but…
I think one of the best things we could do for society is steer boys towards an obsession with professional sports again.
In recent decades the interest in professional sports has waned among young men, a space they have instead filled with meme cuture, podcast bros, gym culture, video games, and far-right politics. However, their need to see their team win did not lessen at all. What changed was who their “team” is and what “winning” looks like.
What harm is there when one’s team is the Bulls, one’s enemy is the Pistons, victory means a championship, and loss means “we’ll get ‘em next season”? Instead these boys have essentially gamified society. Their “team” is an ever-more exclusive ingroup of males suffering from a victim complex. Victory is domination over perceived enemies like liberals, women and feminists, immigrants and people of color, the LGBTQIA+ community, and the trophy is perpetually out of their reach as the only true way of winning this game is individual domination.
Champions of sport (Jordan, James, Messi) have been replaced by champions of culture wars (Musk, Kirk, Trump, Tate). Perhaps most importantly, the community of sports fandom has been replaced by a mob community of victims with an axe to grind, feeding off each other’s rage, insecurity, delusion, bigotry, and violence.
How this goal might be accomplished is beyond me. If you agree perhaps repost with your ideas of how we accomplish this feat.
Democrats cannot win back working class voters by putting forth more corporate backed politicians.
There's a better path forward.
It's one paved by leaders like @zohrankmamdani who stand up to the oligarchy and fight to make life affordable for working people.
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