The Youth Flake On Obama

Black and RIGHT ^ | 8/26/2009 | Bob Parks

[AJMCQ]

A few months ago, it was all about “hope and change”. As the youth vote now feels good about what was accomplished, they’ve moved on…

A lot of the tech-savvy activists who helped put him in office are young, feeling indestructible and not all that into what they see as an old folks issue. It’s a crucial gap in support and one the White House may have to correct if Obama is to regain the momentum and get Congress to act on his top domestic priority.

Matt Singer, a 26-year-old founder of the liberal group Forward Montana and an activist in the health care trenches, has tried to engage young people. “Right now we’re seeing a big conversation with seniors, but you’re not seeing the same mobilization among young people who are President Obama’s core constituency,” Singer said. “The age demographic most supportive of reform has not been engaged, and it makes me very nervous.”

Younger people are generally healthier and rely on less medical care, particularly young working men who make up the largest group that goes voluntarily without health insurance. They also are less likely to be as vocal at contentious town halls; many are either working or in school during the daytime forums.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Most of the young are stupid and arrogant.

It’s not their fault.

It’s the way they were educated/brainwashed.

I can’t believe I’m actually “that guy” who finds their conversation dull and unoriginal and callow.

I so much prefer speaking with the elderly who live around me.

[exDemMom]

“The age demographic most supportive of reform has not been engaged, and it makes me very nervous.”

Most supportive, or less resistant to "reform"? It's obvious most of the kids who voted for Obama don't have a dog in this fight. It's telling that the people who are the biggest consumers of health care services are turning against it.

[newnhdad]

Useful idiots. Just like the commies viewed Hollywood, Obama looks at anyone that can be inconvenient at times as useful idiots.

[Vince Ferrer]

Don't talk about the benefits of health care to the healthy, talk about how much they are going to have to be taxed to pay for all of this, especially the recent graduates looking for work.

Oh wait, that might not help a liberal activist.

[Neverforget01]

Most of the young demographic that supported Obama are looking for a job in Obama’s economy where unemployment is 16%. Maybe they're disillusioned with the hope and change Obama has brought?

[RipSawyer]

“I so much prefer speaking with the elderly who live around me.”
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So do I, but occasionally I meet a young person who actually understands something about the world and such a one is a great joy to be around, even for a minute. The experience leaves you wishing that you had such a person living next door.

Unfortunately, most of us are cursed as young people to go around mouthing absurdities while imagining that we have just discovered the great truths that no one else understands while in reality we are recycling the ancient stupidity that was old when the pyramids were young. At least I am past that stage now...at least I hope so.

[Islander7]

Unfortunately, most of us are cursed as young people to go around mouthing absurdities while imagining that we have just discovered the great truths that no one else understands while in reality we are recycling the ancient stupidity that was old when the pyramids were young.

Excellent line of thinking. When I turned 30 my father welcomed me to his side of the generation gap. I had no idea how right he was until I spent a weekend fishing with my teen aged nephews.

[Cheburashka]

In 2008 Obama was young and hip.

In 2009 Obama is an old fart.

Hope and Change is soooo 2008.

[xcamel]

Yeah, the old “Hopety Changity” thing...
How’s that working out, anyway...??

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

I agree. Occasionally, I meet a young person who is beginning to “get it.” And it is refreshing.

Being able to see the difference between blind faith (youthful arrogance) and critical analysis (realism) is the surest proof that you’ve “crossed the line.”

Now, whether what we “know” is “truth” is yet another issue. But if we are applying Aristotle’s Critical Analysis truthfully (and not blindly like the young who accept all “pop” as the way to be and all professorial opinion as truth and all disrespect of all that they have been told to disrespect as healthful dissent) then we are on the right road.

[TexasFreeper2009]

Face it, many of the young people voted for 0bama because they wanted to feel like they had participated in something “historic” with their worthless lives meaningless, godless lives.

[wbill]

many of the young people voted for 0bama because they wanted to feel like they had participated in something “historic”

yep. "He's good-looking, young, and hip. And I can help make history by voting for him!"

I, I, I, me me me.

However, I will give credit to BO's campaign for figuring out how to tap into that movement. His team ran a smart campaign. If Conservatives could do the same, or something similar for a different demographic, they'd pretty well cement themselves into the Oval Office.

[MrB]

God builds in a desire for significance in our existance.
That significance is supposed to be fulfilled in our relationship to Him.

But when that relationship is rejected, then the individual seeks to fill that desire with SOMETHING, ANYTHING, and it is usually an idol of some sort.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

True. Many of them leave such vapid lives of manufactured turmoil and artificial thrill and shallow thought, that is the best they could do to feel like “they were there” and that “they did something for history” — flip a lever.