You can’t lose what you never had.
We can appeal to young in a number of ways. Whether or not we choose to do so is another story:
1. Smarter use of new media and social networking. We need more Breitbart and less snail mail
2. Greater emphasis on economic and personal freedoms, less emphasis on social conservatism. The social conservatism should not be abandoned, but it should be properly articulated and targeted at regions of the country where the people are more receptive to it. Young people in Utah are more socially conservative than say young people in New Hampshire. In general, we would need more Von Mises Institute and less PTL Club.
3. Stress the things we have in common with the young:
a. Economic uncertainty/need for job growth/economic growth
b. Personal freedom/constitutional rights
c. Concern about high taxes
c. Need to improve/reform educational system
d. Gun rights
As a social conservative, I don’t think we should abandon our long-standing support of social issues. I do, however, think we can emphasize those things we have in common with most of other Americans, including the youth. Right now, my primary concerns are economic decline, national security, and government excess. The moral decline in this country is probably the worst threat to the long-term health of this country, but that is a chronic disease and cannot be reversed anytime soon. Economics, national security, and, to a lesser extent, government scope can be positively reformed much sooner. These areas are like arterial bleeding and must be fixed now or the patient dies.
A lot of our daily politics will be shaped by the regions of country. In the South, social conservatism can be more pronounced. In more liberal areas of the country, the emphasis should be on Economic and personal freedom. I think of this as smart 10th Amendment politics.
Pretty sure young white males favored Romney. It’s the single white females that are the problem.
Dear KATIE GLUECK - they were getting audited too?!
Any country relying on appeasing Young voters in this day and age is doomed! They are totally clueless without any moral or common sense compass to go by. They are trained as liberal socialists. They believe that they can have utopia, and without doing any work besides.
Lost? You can’t lose what you never had in the first place. They’ve (most, anyway) been propagandized by leftist teachers since kindergarten.
If it could work for me in the seventies, it should still work now.
The GOP is doing very well at the state level. It’s at the national level where the GOP wants to be the RINO party is where they are doing poorly.
No problem. When the economy crashes under Barry, many of these kids will just kill themselves.
When they start fighting like Mao's young revolutionaries, I'll laugh.
Most of the young voters I've seen are morons and really have no idea what is going on, or have the knowledge of basic civics to understand the political process. Many vote for a candidate because left wing organizations like MTV's Rock the Vote told them "it is cool to do so". IN hindsight, lowering the voting age to 18 was a mistake.
Immaturity is central to the modern liberal-leftist identity, so over time a good portion of young people will drift rightward.
If they aren’t given the luxury to drift, then it is likely that the shift will be a sudden shove. Maybe economically very painful.
But in the end, you can’t avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
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