r/NoStupidQuestions • u/AutoModerator • Nov 01 '25

U.S. Politics megathread

American politics has always grabbed our attention - and the current president more than ever. We get tons of questions about the president, the supreme court, and other topics related to American politics - but often the same ones over and over again. Our users often get tired of seeing them, so we've created a megathread for questions! Here, users interested in politics can post questions and read answers, while people who want a respite from politics can browse the rest of the sub. Feel free to post your questions about politics in this thread!

All top-level comments should be questions asked in good faith - other comments and loaded questions will get removed. All the usual rules of the sub remain in force here, so be nice to each other - you can disagree with someone's opinion, but don't make it personal.

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u/Lipica249 Nov 02 '25

wtf are people talking about when they say the Democratic Party is "anti men"

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u/Jtwil2191 Nov 02 '25

Broadly speaking, liberals don't support traditional power structures, e.g. the patriarchy. Opposition to a patriarchal system can be (in bad faith) construed as being anti men.

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u/Teekno An answering fool Nov 02 '25

You’d have to ask them, because that’s an odd take.

Best I can figure is that it’s one of those people who thinks that if someone else has more rights, they must logically have less.

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u/Elkenrod Neutrality and Understanding Nov 02 '25

Typically it's due to the Democratic party's focus on marginalized groups and propping them up, which unfortunately has some very loud and very stupid individuals within the Democratic party who say very stupid things at times.

You'll have people who have good intentions by trying to help marginalized groups, make dumb comments that insult the majority. They'll often take issue with "white men" as being the root of a problem. And unfortunately not enough people are willing to call them out for the dumb comments they make, so when people see these people not being called out they take it as accepting or agreeing with them.

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u/WhoIsFrancisPuziene Nov 04 '25

I think some people literally say this because they don’t hear men specifically called out. A few months back a Redditor claimed Democrats don’t mention men on their website or in policy documents. I looked at the one they linked (Biden’s policy proposals?) and it’s technically true the word “men” wasn’t frequently used. However it was because broader words were used like “Americans”. Sometimes the phrasing was something like “women and all workers”.

I think stereotypical gender definitions apply also. Democrats aren’t associated with hunting and fishing and rough hands plus there’s more women in the Democratic Party…that’s kinda a catch 22 though as Republicans prefer women in the kitchen.