A 66% voting block will never become majority republican, and that is our under age 33 group, any one that refuses to even acknowledge that is no conservative, and is someone who wants to bury their head in the sand and let it continue unchallenged.
If we can’t make some change in the under 35 year old voter, and the Catholic voters, then we stand no chance at all in this nation.
Horsehockey.
The Boomer voting block dwarfs them.
You are right that the nation will eventually get to the point where the boomers are too small, but that point is over 20 years away.
There are more Boomers than either Xers and Ys, and more Boomer voters than both combined.
Boomers when they got the levers of power got more and more liberal, and continue to trend liberal. That long range trend isn’t likely to change because boomers have no reason to change.
The young folks on the other hand, this is our future that’s getting destroyed. I know many, many young conservatives. You want to know what angers us more than anything else?
The 50 million of us that are not here. 50 million! Think that might have defeated obama if the Boomer generation had actually stepped up and done their duty?
I agree and it starts with us. The notion that talk of politics and religion is taboo in the public sphere is hogwash. Any debased culture trash can be discussed but the two most important things in human relations can’t?
We have become disconnected and losing that social-capital that Alexis De Tocqueville noted about Americans. It was noted by Robert D. Putnam in, Bowling Alone.
IMO, the Church (youth groups) and Boy Scouts are great start.