Guilt Trips Won’t Resolve the ‘Man Problem’ Surrounding Kamala Harris
I am dumbfounded by the Democratic Party strategy of treating the men of America like an annoying child who repeatedly asks his mother, “Why?”
When we hesitate to support a candidate who won’t give us clear answers to our reasonable questions, all we get in response are accusations of hatred or indifference toward a woman seeking power — even though we’ve held up the same expectation for the other candidate.
Nearly every major Democratic politician, surrogate and pundit has directed unnecessary aggressiveness toward men, with the party apparently feeling it can take our votes or leave them.
Clearly, male voters are not their focus.
Barack Obama believes he blessed us with his mere presence as he scolded black men with accusations of misogyny for our reluctance to support Kamala Harris.
Doubling down on the animosity, Michelle Obama joined the Harris campaign trail to berate all men, challenging our manhood with an emotionally manipulative claim that a vote for Harris is a sign of our desire to protect the women we love.
“If we don’t get this election right, your wife, your daughter, your mother, we as women will become collateral damage to your rage,” she lectured us last week. “So are you as men prepared to look into the eyes of the women and children you love and tell them that you supported this assault on our safety?”
“We are more than just baby-making vessels,” Michelle lamented.
Nothing about her message was geared toward appealing to men’s own concerns, hopes and needs: It was all about guilt.
Worse, she encouraged women to deceive the men they care about — many of whom, she implied, are political abusers who forcefully hold their partners down.
“If you’re a woman who lives in a household of men that don’t listen to you or value your opinion, just remember your vote is a private matter,” she said.
Democrats like to insult former President Donald Trump as an abrasive character who’s dividing the nation with his irreverent language — but ignore how they are purveyors of hostile misandrist rhetoric, purposefully causing friction between the sexes to drum up votes.
A recent Quinnipiac poll showed Trump leading heavily with men in swing states, getting as much as 59% of the male vote in Wisconsin, for example.
Even Harris herself acknowledged on a hot mic that she has a “man problem” — yet her campaign can’t seem to comprehend that it’s part of the reason why.
Harris and the Democrats have made it their mission to portray the life of the average American woman as inherently unfortunate, and to blame their supposedly downtrodden lives on the men allegedly standing over them.
In ads and online rallies they’ve employed weak, effeminate male faces of feminist supremacy to repeat misandrist talking points, suggesting that they speak for the rest of us.
In their pursuit of women’s votes, they’ve convinced themselves to make men last.
And they’re so enthralled by the prospect of the first woman president that they take offense when we attempt to measure her by the same standards we set for the men who have come before her.
When Donald Trump speaks of enacting tariffs against China, working-class men understand it as a promise to protect their jobs by keeping corporate conglomerates from shipping their work outside the country.
That’s just one example of the type of messaging men want to hear.
But Harris can’t speak to easing our economic angst because the comfortable class she’s focused on isn’t feeling it.
Instead, we get little more than insulting ads with actors portraying men as caricatures defined by our interests, then challenging our manhood to support her.
The Democratic Party has been ideologically captured by a class of individuals who purposely use immutable characteristics to gauge moral culpability, falsely framing men as the default villains for the women we love.
But our vote isn’t a measure of our love or hatred for women. And Democrats’ constant insinuations otherwise are nothing but emotionally manipulative nonsense meant to make women look at us with a side-eye as we attempt to cast our ballots.
The Democratic Party has made itself the party of elitism and misandry, and this election season has completely lifted the veil so that all can witness their animus for the common working-class man.
Men know exactly where we’re not welcomed. Message received.
Adam B. Coleman is the author of “Black Victim to Black Victor” and founder of Wrong Speak Publishing.
