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Generation Next tilting left
Waterbury Republican-American ^ | January 15, 2007 | Editorial

Posted on 01/15/2007 2:14:31 PM PST by Graybeard58

Renowned for binge drinking, illegal drug use, violence, body piercings and celebrity worship, Generation Next is better than the preceding generation because it is more tolerant and optimistic and more likely to vote Democratic, according to new research.

Before swallowing this pap, consider:

These findings do not arise from rigorous, peer-reviewed scientific inquiry, but a poll of 579 people 18 to 25. Polls are highly suspect because they can be manipulated by sponsors to produce desired outcomes. The sponsors here were the liberal Pew Research Center and MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, renowned for its ultra-left-wing news programs and documentaries.

The conclusions conform to the liberal news media's world view and wishful thinking, and thus got reported widely and sympathetically. Such treatment, however, is not afforded reports by right-wing groups that speak favorably of young Republicans.

Social scientists love canonizing liberals and Democrats and denigrating conservatives and Republicans. In 2003, a meta-analysis by four liberal psychologists of 88 political-orientation studies conducted by liberal researchers concluded liberals are enlightened, optimistic, tolerant, creative, articulate and cultured while conservatives basically are knuckle-dragging rednecks. Those sweeping generalities are manifestly false, yet the most recent Psychology Today magazine vigorously defended them as "quintessentially empirical and difficult to dismiss as false."

Young adults like winners. The Democratic win in the mid-term elections makes it cool for them to support Democrats right now, just as it was cool for young adults coming of age in the 1980s to be Republicans during the Reagan years. Generally, young adults by nature also tend to be more liberal, but move to the right as they age. Observing the phenomenon, Winston Churchill remarked: "Any man who is under 30 and is not a liberal has no heart; and any man who is over 30 and is not a conservative has no brains." So though young adults may be leaning toward the Democrats today, chances are most will come to their senses in due time.


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To: Graybeard58

I guess this means my social security is safe afterall. I would have bet just about anything that social security would go broke just about the time I'm ready to collect. But with liberal sapps like this coming up behind me, looks like I have nothing to worry about.


21 posted on 01/15/2007 3:43:26 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: Graybeard58

It's so easy to be liberal when you don't work for a living. If your heros are idiot celebs instead of real-life heros, you will have a warped view of life.


22 posted on 01/15/2007 3:50:50 PM PST by Proud2BeRight
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To: Graybeard58

This generation will do all right.

Here is a story about one of them

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1765804/posts


23 posted on 01/15/2007 9:39:31 PM PST by art_rocks
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To: art_rocks; qam1

Darn right. Did anyone else notice that the Pew Research chart above points out that the "Most Republican" age is 36?


24 posted on 01/16/2007 12:14:03 PM PST by LibertarianInExile (When personal character isn't relevant to voters or party leaders, Foley happens.)
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To: LibertarianInExile; ItsOurTimeNow; PresbyRev; tortoise; Fraulein; StoneColdGOP; Clemenza; ...
A little late, but this is a good rebutle of Report: Generation Next more confident, more tolerant and more Democratic

Xer Ping

Ping list for the discussion of the politics and social (and sometimes nostalgic) aspects that directly effects Generation Reagan / Generation-X (Those born from 1965-1981) including all the spending previous generations are doing that Gen-X and Y will end up paying for.

Freep mail me to be added or dropped. See my home page for details and previous articles.

25 posted on 01/17/2007 7:51:15 AM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: Graybeard58

I have noticed this as well. Most 25-27 year olds and younger are very left, anti-Bush, anti-business, anti-Liberty and anti-gun.


26 posted on 01/17/2007 7:55:09 AM PST by xrp (Republicans Message: Vote for us, we suck less than Democrats.)
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To: mc6809e

This is scary!

This says that there is a huge preponderance of Democrats!


27 posted on 01/17/2007 8:06:15 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: hosepipe

I am.

I'm also for getting rid of the 13th Amend and the IRS. Period.

BTW, I'm 37.


28 posted on 01/17/2007 8:07:25 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: hosepipe

DUH! I meant "16th", NOT "13th"! I was thinking "1913" and got it messed up....


29 posted on 01/17/2007 8:08:20 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: Graybeard58

hey, I was a liberal at 20 because I was a child and now I'm a conservative, because I'm a man.


30 posted on 01/17/2007 8:40:30 AM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99 (proud sponsor of the "helmets for democrats" foundation)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Well, I just can't call you man.


31 posted on 01/17/2007 8:41:28 AM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99 (proud sponsor of the "helmets for democrats" foundation)
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To: Graybeard58

Young people aren't naturally stupid. It takes years of schooling to get that way.


32 posted on 01/17/2007 8:45:27 AM PST by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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To: Alberta's Child

Igneous, metamorphic or sedimentary rocks? :)


33 posted on 01/17/2007 10:27:03 AM PST by Betis70
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To: Graybeard58; Alberta's Child
Observing the phenomenon, Winston Churchill remarked: "Any man who is under 30 and is not a liberal has no heart; and any man who is over 30 and is not a conservative has no brains." So though young adults may be leaning toward the Democrats today, chances are most will come to their senses in due time.

The youth in Churchill's era were different. They were adults-in-training.

The younger generation I see today is horribly stunted. And they definitely ARE dumber than a bag of rocks.

Without the spiritual, moral, or intellectual tools to combat terrorism, I think these people are in a dangerous state of free fall.

34 posted on 01/17/2007 3:37:41 PM PST by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: Graybeard58
Generation Next signed up in record numbers after 9/11. They believed we were going to fight the war on terror in the same way we fought WWII. Now that they've seen this as Vietnam, part two, their enthusiasm has turned to distrust. Seeing our soldiers pilloried for doing what needs to be done to the enemy, I can't blame them for not wanting to guard mosques from opposing bands of Islamofascists.

We lost the Baby Boom generation over Vietnam, we are losing Generation Next over Iraq.

35 posted on 01/17/2007 4:05:22 PM PST by hunter112
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To: qam1

They've been preprogrammed by their radical parents, then fine tuned by all the radicals in the government schools.


36 posted on 01/18/2007 7:03:52 PM PST by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: mc6809e

Fascinating. The Silents (e.g. my parents' generation) lean Right, the first 2/3 to 3/4 of Boomers lean Left, then of course trailing edge Boomers and Gen X / Gen Reagan lean hard Right. Then, then young pierced whipper snappers are chips off the old Boomer / commie block.


37 posted on 01/18/2007 7:07:54 PM PST by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: mc6809e

By the way, my wife is right there at the mother of all Rightist peaks - the perfect 36 - LOL! She helps keep me an honest true Rightist :-)


38 posted on 01/18/2007 7:09:45 PM PST by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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