Too bad I’m not old enough to have known freedom in this country. Didn’t help that I grew up in NYC, either.
Young people—NEVER VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS AND BE CAREFUL OF THE REPUBLICANS YOU VOTE FOR.
Peer pressure of course. Being brought up to like inner city negro music rather than what their parents and older siblings listened to. The urbanization of the country is without doubt the cause of the depravity that Obunga exemplifies.
I have no compassion for them and their fate at this point, they wanted this, without bothering to find out anything about it, because someone told them it was "cool".
They also refuse to listen to any opinion not supportive of the regime, have seen that.
Welcome to the first generation where more people vote for a living that work for a living.
And who do these unfortunates have to blame for their misery? Their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents who were too lazy to fight for liberty by reigning in this malignant government.
Good men shed their blood in foreign lands, but no one was watching the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the federal government as they voraciously devoured our treasure, culture and hope.
Unfortunately my 3 kids all think that I am just a cranky old conservative when I try to warn them about 0bama & the hideous democRAT party & ideology & practices. I was talking to my 23 yr old son about Benghazi and his response was "what's that"? And he knows nothing nor does he care, of the danger of granting amnesty to 11-30 million illegal aliens. My 2 daughters, 28 & 26, also roll their eyes or beome critical when I talk to them about these things. Of course it doesn't help that my ex-wife, demeaned & downplayed any warnings that I was trying to pass along, prior to our divorce in Nov 2010. I feel sorry for my kids and their kids some day.
My main suspicion is that we’re going to have one hell of a time getting younger voters to veer back to the center. In the past, we used to adhere to the whole “if you aren’t a liberal when you’re young..” axiom, but it seems like cultural programming (brainwashing?) has gotten a heck of a lot stronger.
My family is very Catholic, and very southern in flavor.. but the vast majority of the kids under 30 sound like socialists whenever any political topic shows-up. Making the rich pay more taxes, homo rights, gun control - they sound like Facebook flavor-of-the-month bumperstickers.
And to whomever mentioned urbanization: I have suspicions that you’re onto something. In prior generations, folks in our family much preferred to live out in the country and commute as needed, or at the very least live in a decent, spacious neighborhood out in the suburbs. But now, more and more, the young ones seem to be embracing the idea of living in their hampster-cage-like apartments in the inner city, electing to stay even when they’re done with school and when they begin to have kids.
It adds-up to an entire culture that they’ve bought-into. Small cars (or no cars), city living, fruity/faggy soy mocha lattes, guns are something that’s scaaaary, feel-good rainbow coalition-type fluffy crap politics of little consequence. What color are we changing our twitter profiles this month? And who cares about how the big bill will be paid down the line? Not their problem!
Makes me wonder how in the hell my siblings screwed-up when they were supposed to be instilling values in their kids. The more I think about it, the more I’m glad that I wasn’t born later. At least I got to see a hint of how it was supposed to be in this country.