[BigWaveBetty]

I will say I don't find it shocking, I've seen this coming for quite some time. My daughter's generation (born 1980) and her brother's (born 1986) have broken the "you're a freak if you're not liberal" mold.

When someone asks what my daughter does for a living my answer with a big smile is, "She's a stay-at-home-mom and I'm so proud of her!"

[I-53]

The large number of clean-cut, well-behaved teens and twenty-somethings at the Bush rally in Green Bay on Wednesday bears out the premise of this article.

I will admit I was surprised.

[Eighth Square]

Wow! What an uplifting article! As an entrenched pessimist I had given up on a decaying nation, strongly lashing out at the liberal filth whenever I could. The young ARE the future so here's to them and God Speed!

[kevkrom]

I'd hypothesize three main factors for this:

1. Liberals are self-limiting genetically with abortion and "zero-population growth" nonsense, meaning more kids are born to moderate and conservative families.

2. It's against the nature of youth to conform to what's "expected" of them by the establishment. Since today's "establishment" is the counter-culture left, today's kids are the counter-counter-culture right.

3. The internet allows the kids a way around the MSM filters. They don't read newspapers or watch the evening news, but they are probably better informed than their parents, in general, and have access to a much wider-range of viewpoints.

[HamiltonJay]

The radical left shift by society was nothing more than attempt to undermine us as a nation using the babyboomers as the catalyst... now that they are aging and dying.. we will return to our moral, correct and historical course, and end the nonsens of our parents KGB and Drug induced follies.

[qam1]

All ready posted here, With Rush Limbaugh's take on it

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1168915/posts

[diamond6]

Oh how incredibly refreshing to read this. It almost brings tears to my eyes. I have to wonder if part of this is beause there are so many people home-schooling their kids.

[diamond6]

I have sent some private messages to some of the posters and thought, why don't I ask all of you.

What tips would you give to new parents just starting out?What methods of child-rearing worked well for you, etc etc. I welcome all suggestions and tips.

[numberonepal]

My take is that many X and Y-ers, like myself, have seen too many families broken up by a free wheeling life style, infidelity, and drug/alcohol abuse, and divorce. Divorce is so ugly for children. They blame themselves. And many, again like myself, have vowed never to do that to our children.

We've embraced stronger family values. We have a greater sense of tolerance for different races than our own. The difference between my father and myself in the bigotry department is gigantic. He's a great man, but quite intolerant. See, I understand there are perfectly good reason to hate people on and individual basis, so why worry about an entire race.

Also, I have had first hand observation of the Y-ers at Florida State University. After 9-11 and the war in Iraq I was pleased to see that the kids were in support of the troops and the policies of the Administration. Everywhere you looked on campus there was red, white, and blue. The Sorority girls were the most supportive of the bunch. They were always painting the curb walls (about 3 1/2 ft tall) with messages of troop support and support for America. Yellow and patriotic ribbons were everywhere. It was nice to see. Now it's not to say that there were some rabid lefties there, but they were greatly out numbered.

Many of my friends and colleagues are stay/work at home parents. Many are home schooling (man what a tough deal that is - but worth it I'm sure).

9-11 pissed a lot of us off something big. We grew up in the 80's wondering if the next Special Report on the TV was an announcement of a nuclear war. Then we saw Communism crumble. We admired Reagan because we spent our formative years under Carter, and learned by proxy that liberalism was impotent.

The next time you see some rabid protesters take a close look. They aren't young. We've got better stuff to do.

[diamond6]

Bump

I came across this article (I had printed it out months ago because it got me excited) and thought I would ping it in case other people didn't get a chance to see it.