but it's true... out of 45million abortions since Roe, RATS have had two to every one Rep., that's 15million less RATS to for RATs. and it's not going to change in the future.
Posted on 02/18/2006 6:34:06 PM PST by DogByte6RER
2006: Turning point for young conservatives
Posted: January 5, 2006
By Hans Zeiger
Something big is going on in America, but few are yet aware of it. It is a generational shift comparable to that of the infamous '60s, and it will involve as much revolt and upheaval. In this case, revolution is desperately needed, for the previous revolution has almost destroyed the country. The new revolution will repair the country.
Yet 2006 will not be the beginning of the revolution – it has already been gathering steam now for several years. But it will, I predict, commence the vigorous public discussion of that revolution, much as it became clear sometime early or middle of the 1960s that a revolution was then taking place.
The main characters in the unfolding story are the Reagan Babies.
Reagan Babies are at the forefront of the rising generation. Those of us born between 1981 and 1989, the Reagan years, are on the cutting edge of what has variously been called the Millennial Generation or Generation Next or Generation Y. Reagan Babies are fascinating at the present moment because they are the emerging future leaders of America, now in high school and college and just joining the workforce and on the military frontlines of Iraq and Afghanistan. But beyond the present, the intellectual and political and cultural vanguard of our generation will hail from among the Reagan Babies. And it is decisively, revolutionarily, conservative.
Spiritually, Reagan Babies are interested in God and a return to more traditional patterns of faith. According to a UCLA study released in October, three out of four college students claim to be "searching for some meaning/purpose in life," and two thirds say they derive guidance and direction from their faith, and two thirds pray. There hasn't been a generation-wide Christian revival, but I am convinced that God is preparing our generation for such a revival.
"I think the generation today is open, they're searching and they're looking. They know there's more to life than just what you see," said Meredith Peterson, a volunteer for the 2006 Passion Conference which is expected to draw 18,000 students and young people to Nashville this week for prayer and worship. Young Christians are moving into the most influential places in our culture, and they are uniting together in the battle for hearts and minds. Evangelical Christian colleges have the fastest growing student bodies in higher education. Homeschoolers, most of them Christians, are ambitious and well-prepared for the world.
Morally, Reagan Babies are cautious and responsible. Teen pregnancy is down; teen abortion is down; teen drug use is down; youth volunteerism is up; manners and mores are coming back into fashion. Once, we were the most aborted generation, and now we are the most pro-life generation of Americans. Three in five young Americans support a complete ban or partial restrictions on abortion, according to a 2004 Zogby poll.
On campus, where the hippie Left has long thought their battle to be won, the growing conservatism of young Americans translates into activism. Conservatives are no longer silent in the classroom, popular Affirmative Action bake sales and conservative campus newspapers have confounded professors, and a well-funded network of "subversive" foundations and support networks is in place, ranging from Young Americas Foundation to the Intercollegiate Studies Institute to the Leadership Institute, and from College Republicans to pro-life and Christian student groups. Brendan Steinhauser, author of "The Conservative Revolution: How to Win the Battle on College Campuses," calls the surge of activism "the new counter-culture on America's campuses."
In November, Christopher Flickinger, a recent graduate of the Ohio University Scripps School of Journalism, launched the Network of College Conservatives. Flickinger's mission is "to educate, inform, expose and counter the liberal bias on college campuses throughout America." So far, students at around 220 colleges have signed up to be part of the Network. As Flickinger told FoxNews.com, "Hopefully, we'll bring this quiet revolution to a loud, boisterous battle."
So, 2006 is looking to be the year when the quiet revolution becomes loud.
Hans Zeiger is an Eagle Scout, president and founder of the Scout Honor Coalition and a student at Hillsdale College in Michigan. His new book, "Get Off My Honor: The Assault on the Boy Scouts of America," can be purchased from ShopNetDaily.
The Marxist dope-smokers of the Woodstock Generation will be apoplectic if they can ever sober up from the reefer madness permeating their campus ivory towers.
Last spring I helped a College Republican club set up an affirmative action bake sale at Cal State San Bernardino and the faculty didn't know what hit them.
Change is coming...but there will be lots of sound and fury as the modern day liberal beast utters its last dying gasp.
Pearl Harbor toughened up one generation.
9-11 and realizing some nutburgers riot over cartoons is toughening up this generation.
He's a great kid.
They had better toughen up...there is a hard rain a comin'
They are gonna need every ounce of faith God will grant them..
My nephews got the word...one a freshman in college (and ROTC) and the other a Jr in High School...they are toughening up and are of this same new social and fiscal conservative mind set...
God bless 'em and give them strength and wisdom...
My daughter and her friends are very conservative. They love to skewer liberals with factual counter-arguments. Their opponents have never had their views challenged and become deer in headlights.
Bottom line: Their leaders are arrogant idiots. Let's hope they find the truth by going to the only source that can give it to them -- God's Word.
The Regan Babies, the Rush Babies all have a seminal event in their lives.......9/11.
This generation with need to be strong...Islamofascism is marching..
From a young boomer:
God bless Ronald Reagan and the Y-Gens. They are the new blood at a time of need for a major turnover at the centers of education. We need them to ensure the longevity of this country through solid values, common sense, and a belief in God.
I know the student body on my campus definately seems to lean conservative...
The largest facebook group is called "George Bush is my homeboy" =P
Yep I have to agree with you there.
However, and there is always that isn't there :)
I doubt that young conservatives are learning real lessons from the present administration what with spend until you drop and let someone else out it out attitude.
If they think that the "grow the government and spend like a drunken sailor" is the conservative way, god help us all.
ping
Great article. I'll be starting college next year, and I look forward to being able to help stem the tide of liberalism in academia...
I was born in 1975 and the activity of the younger conservatives gives me hope when I get down about where the movement is going.
My brother fought in Iraq, not Vietnam. Libs really need to get out of the 1960's....
Oh but you should share his optimism. My oldest just graduated college and she's fairly conservative. My youngest just started college. Oh gosh is she ever conservative. She truly is a Rush and Reagan baby. She grew up listening to Rush in the afternoons. He really taught her how to reason and not to believe what the media spoon feeds you. Not only that, both are now forwarding links to me in emails from Free Reoublic. That's my kids.
I discovered what a hippie was in the 6th grade. I correctly tagged the teachers I didn't like as annoying brainless flower-child freaks, though I had not yet learned the word "liberal".
South Park is real-world. The beauty of the show is that no matter how raunchy and wrong the kids are -- the leftist adults are far more revolting on every level (morally, behaviorally, common sensibly, etc).
From another younger Boomer . . . Go get 'em and God Bless you!
Our sons are just 10 and 12, but so far they're shaping up as good kids, and so are their friends. I'm encouraged by what I see among youngsters and young parents these days. Times are changing.
Yo! *was born June 22, 1982*
Mr. Holland indeed has had his final opus. He ain't coming back!
I attend a more-or-less conservative college, and hence most of my friends could be quantified as conservatives of different sorts, though we run the gamlut from libertarian to party-line Republicans to eccletic unquantifiable. Except for some of the party-line sorts, I doubt any of my conservative peers approach the Bush Administration without ample criticism; there is no lack of divergent thought- though we don't really have many who could be put in the left side of the spectrum. Attempts to establish a Young Democrat's organization have failed rather consistently over the years, for some reason...
The Bush adminsistration has violated every precept of fiscal conservatism. They have also violated every precept of the the US constitution and the bill of rights. Young conservatives do, and will despise, this corrupt, treasonous administration - if for no other reason than they cannot obtain decent paying jobs with which to pay the completely-unpayable national debt - because of the policies which have already destroyed this nation. The monster-government has crippled the economy - and caused many prospective entreprenuers to not even consider trying any longer.
As a Reagan Baby (I'll turn 18 later this year), it's nice to hear that I'm not nearly as alone in my views as I sometimes feel!
I think this is good news for our country - more God-fearing conservatives in prominent places will, hopefully, bring about something of a return to the original values of our founding fathers: Life, Love, Liberty and the right to pursue happiness. (Excuse my paraphrasing - need to re-read the Constitution! :))
While this certainly doesn't mean all of us Reagan-era children are, will be, or shall remain God-fearing conservatives.. I'd rather be optimistic and pray that more of us -will- be, rather than the oposite. After all, it won't hurt much more than the liberals' pride and values (if they have any) with more of us around, and hopefully it could only get better!
Regards, and God bless,
~Moshi-chan
Good to hear it. As I get older (I'm only yikes 39) and I cringe sometimes when young conservatives think that the spending today is normal and good. I remind them that eventually the bill comes due and we all get hit.
Dawning realization is usually the response.
Good luck to ya.
Nah, young people have something the Boomers still lack to this day - common sense and maturity.
I started that facebook group at my college and it is pretty popular too.
Well that is a bit harsh, this administration has done it's best after being dealt a very bad hand. However I agree that they have done alot that goes against every conservative bone in my body.
While I hope they hold the house this year, I truly want to see a close one, to slap them upside of the head.
You know you've got problems when the Dems start to sound fiscally responsible.
Thats good to hear.. :)
Bush is my Homeboy
This group has 3062 members at MS State.
Interesting read. TY for posting.
What is a 'facebook group' and an 'affirmative action bake sale'?
Good news on the horizon?
Fiscally tax cuts are good, spending is bad. The administration has gotten half of it right.
Constitutionally, conservative judges good, mediocre judges bad. Except for Meirs, good.
Listening to foreign phone conversations good, Campaign finance reform bad.
Alien criminal invasion of our borders, lets not go there.
Iraq war good and getting better.
We'll get better at it with each successive country, Iran, Syria, North Korea.
Minorities advancing into our ownership society, and high profile govt. posts. good.
So overall The Bush Administration is a 50/50 proposition, at worst. They have done more good than harm.
I wish the same could be said of the last past three Democrat administrations. As bad as Carter was, LBJ, was worse, because he was effective in implementing the most damaging programs, which today bloat our federal spending.
but it's true... out of 45million abortions since Roe, RATS have had two to every one Rep., that's 15million less RATS to for RATs. and it's not going to change in the future.
However his friends (well, from the high school years) are more what I would call empty conservatives. If you ask them, they will usually give you a conservative answer. But they have no depth, no idea why. That goes in both political and religious areas. It's scary because they could be led astray in a heartbeat.
I agree. How many potential democRats have been aborted who would be voting today?
Millions.
an interesting observation. the subject of reagan came up the other day in class and the kids who were overwhelmingly positive about him...SHOCKED that anyone thought badly of him.
interesting how those things shift, you know.
XLurk was banned. Guess he/she was deemed to much of an "angry conservative".
I disagree that the Bush administration has done more good than harm.
If it were not for the war in Iraq just how angry would true conservatives be with President Bush? In my opinion, the country would have gone Kerry in '04 and 'Rat in '06.
Bush is not a conservative and Bush has done nothing for true conservatism except milk the war in Iraq and the "war on terror" for all he can get. His tax cuts are still in the air ... and his two nominees to the SCOTUS were good calls ... but it's too soon to tell how they will actually vote on important issues.
Did you see Dreyfus on Hannity last night?....showed him giving a speech to journalists I believe....saying Pres. Bush should be impeached.....Dreyfus = Doofus....
I think its this simple: Each generation likes to do the exact opposite of what the generation before did. They want to rebel and in order to do this they throw out their parents beliefs and find new ones that will make their parents freak out!
For instance...This was the sole purpose of the boomers! Their WWII vet parents were hardworking, uncomplaining, patriotic people who valued home ownership and family. The boomers, well....the opposite:) Now the boomers kids weren't exactly rebeling quite as hard as their grandkids but its happening! Now Lets hope that gen-xers & y's kids won't go liberal!
Dreyfus et al. are a very close-nit group. He is friends with Garofalo, Rob Reiner, Warren Beatty... He is a one-man vacuum at the center of the storm, a very damaging force in his work.
Thanks!
She's much more conservative than I was at that age. A real soldier's daughter.
I came into conservative politics gradually. Almost shamefully. I would listen to Rush and Quinn late at night with the windows and doors closed. I hid my conservative books. I felt like I should have "John has a long mustache" for my password to FR. It took me years before I became confident and realized that I wasn't the minority.
My children have no such inhibitions. They are fearless little lion cubs who believe what they believe with no apologies. I do think that the next generation is going to give the libs a run for their money!
Ping.
I think your b-day is pretty close to my high school graduation date; Agoura High School, Class of '82
Anyways...while your generation can be called the Reagan Babies, I feel very privileged to have served in the Navy with Ronald Reagan as my Commander-In-Chief.
My kids, too! Son is in Law School at Arizona State, daughter at Univ. of N. Colorado (she wants to be a kindergarten teacher). I send them links from FR since they don't have as much time as I do to peruse FR. They are known as the infamous Mom's Links of the Day. When I worry that the world is going to hell in a handbasket, I think about my children and their friends. I have so much faith in their generation. God is working his purpose out.
Good news for a change.
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