Posted on 01/09/2007 4:34:27 PM PST by qam1
And a lot younger!
In other words.....
"Kids these days!!"
Maybe so but most young people are idiots who lack the benefit of being in the real world for a while.
Let's see how their views change after they've had a chance to get out in the world and work for a while and pay taxes.
Oh hell, yes, I'm a member of this group and my views on many things, including the current government, changed dramatically after I got a taste of the real world over the past eighteen months...and yes, my first paycheck was a huge shocker (with the amount of taxes taken out).
My fellow "Generation Next"-ers (if that's what they are calling us these days) have things way too easy.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Really, nothing to see here.
Yes, narcissistic, craving-attention, lazy and ignorant. That definately sounds like it could be an emerging democrat base.
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Convenient that this "report" came out after the Dims sweep the mid-terms.
Glad to see that you've seen the light.
I first become aware of politics during the Reagan presidency in my teen years. I was a young child during the Carter years and comparing quality of life and the morale of the nation between Carter and Reagan made it a no-brainer for me.
I was in college during the first Clinton term and was a devout listener of Rush which further solidified my conservative views.
In summary, I was fortunate enough to never go through the liberal stage of life. I guess I have no heart as they say.
Wow....the "good news" today just keeps on comin'!
What do we expect from the indoctrinated yewts who are edumacated in the public schools (a few even can SPEAK English)..
/sarc
Ahh, my generation... Old enough to remember Clinton as a "pimp", too young to care about his policies. Four years with a Democrat as president ought to fix this. The only question is whether we can afford it.
Newsflash: 18 year olds are liberal.
10 Years ago, a Lallapalooza if you asked an 18 year old what he/she thought about gun rights I gauruntee that their answer would differ vastly from that of the same 28 yo today.
I am 29. I am pretty right today, not so much in 1997.
Drew Garrett
IIRC, that was Churchill, not Reagan.
Actually, the funny thing is that I used to consider myself a "moderate" with the beliefs that, well, maybe sometimes government intervention is a good thing.
After getting attacked by a fellow student in college who stockpiled an arsenal of medieval weaponry in his dorm room, suffering through the death of one parent, and working jobs to pay for my family after my dad quit his job last year, including the federal and state income taxes, I finally realized one thing.
The government doesn't give a damn about me except to shake me down to collect its exorbitant taxes.
I grow more conservative by the day.
I really hate to say this, but the the best thing that can be done for my generation is to get rid of government "need-based" financial aid in colleges and the welfare system. The ones who deserve to attend college will find a way in, and the rest, well, they may actually see the light.
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