2006: Turning point for young conservatives

WorldNetDaily ^ | January 5, 2006 | Hans Zeiger

[annelizly]

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!

[SteveMcKing]

Missed that segment.

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.

[somniferum]

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook.com

Facebook, formerly known as thefacebook, is a social networking service for high school, college, and university communities, primarily in English-speaking countries. The site has some similarities to MySpace, but differs in account availability, user control of display content, real-world identity, and overall neatness of appearance. As of December 2005, it has the largest number of registered users among college-focused sites (at over six million US college student accounts created with an additional 20,000 new accounts being created daily).[1]

Anyone with access to a valid e-mail address from 2,000+ universities can register for and access the site, a group that includes students, alumni, faculty, and staff, although the vast majority of Facebook’s users are students.

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Affirmative Action bake sales are a popular protest for affirmative action. Students are charged different prices for the baked items depending on which ethnic group they belong too, for example, a cookie would cost a white male $1.00, a hispanic $.50, and an african american $.25 to illustrate the absurdity of race based admission policies.

[kanawa]

Thanks!

[Marie]

Today my daughter joined FR. (She is Reaper FReeper!)

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!

[DirtyHarryY2K]

Ping.

[DogByte6RER]

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.

[DogByte6RER]

I honestly don't know what a facebook is...my guess, a roster or directory.

For a great read about college affirmative action bake sales check out Prof. Walter E. Williams' column at:

http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/walterwilliams/2003/02/26/169369.html

[Island Girl]

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.

[DirtyHarryY2K]

Homosexual Agenda and Moral Absolutes Ping.

Good news for a change.

[LS]

I teach at a liberal Catholic midwestern university, and I have noticed a distinct shift to the right over the last 10 years, but esp. in the last five. VERY few students espouse views such as "The government should control or ban fast foot" or are pro-abort. (Admittedly, it's Catholic, but still . . . .) When the Iraq war started, the students, on their own, started a "Support the Troops Club" to counter the predicted anti-war groups. It was refreshing.

[jammer]

I just heard Jeffrey Hart, contributor and editor of National Review since 1969, on C-Span2 discussing his new book. One line about which he was emphatic was, "George Bush does not have a conservative bone in his body."

Now, like many others who fought for conservatism when it was really unpopular, he'll be "read out" of the ranks of conservatism by such as the egregious David Frum and the Bush altar boys on FR. But he is right, and more and more conservatives are awakening. I just hope someone is left to show these younger conservatives what conservatism is.

[trubluolyguy]

Good article.

In most colleges these days the Professors are far more communistic than are the students. And it's getting better for our side.

On a related note, my daughter will be 18 in September of 2008. Just in time (she says) to vote against Hilarity. BUT she also says that kids her age really wish there was a party that unlike the Dems stayed out of their money and unlike the Repubs stayed out of their bedrooms. I told her good luck with that and when she finds one that isn't for the legalization of drugs (Losertarians) please let ME know.

[rzeznikj at stout]

Exactly. A facebook is a directory--usually of the freshman class and new transfer students--primarily to aid in social networking on campus within the class.

I've never received a facebook at any point in my college career (one year at Wis.-Stout, this year at Wis.-Waukesha).

Two Harvard guys jumped on this idea and established Facebook as a result.

Now, it's popular--as in estimates say more than 80% of undergrads at participating colleges (or universities) use it.

I refuse to use it though.

[metmom]

My kids are also very conservative. We hoomeschooled them and they learned what they believe and WHY. Most of their friends in church and the homeschool support groups we've belonged to are also quite conservative and most of them are also going to college, even public universities.

[metmom]

All three of my conservative teens are freepers, too. Aged 17, 16, and 13.

[NorthEastRepublican]

I am proud to say I am a Reagan baby.

[Neoliberalnot]

I say this with all sincerity, you are a credit to parenting. It is darn difficult to raise kids with those views in today's world of old media bombardment.

[quikdrw]

That's very funny.

[Scotswife]

I am so proud of my little Reagan baby! (born in 1989)
She is a proud pro-lifer and is not ashamed.