There’s another thing that gives me hope for the future of the country. The Leftward lurch on social issues over the last several decades is something that primarily appeals to people who are either single or childless. Married couples with kids are much more Conservative.
30-40 years ago, you didn’t have so many single and childless adults. Pretty much everyone got married and had kids, and being a Democrat was much more about economic issues.
I’m 50 years old and I know so many of my peers who are childless and who either never married or waited until they were well into their 40’s to marry and don’t plan on having kids. And they’re all Liberals. All scared to death about religious Christians in “Jesusland”. All obsessed with global warming. All convinced that the era when divorce rates, teen pregnancies rates, and out of wedlock birth rates were much, much lower than today (along with abortion rates, which logically follows the other statistics) was “the dark ages”.
Raising a family adds a dimension to your life that changes your perspective on many things. I’m a real estate agent and I was recently showing apartments to a single Gay guy. One apartment that I showed him overlooked a courtyard with a small private playground that hardly ever gets used. He said to me, “sorry, but I don’t do kids”.
While it’s not pleasant to listen a baby crying or a toddler having a temper tantrum, the fact is, people never used to talk like that about children years ago. You didn’t have this whole culture of people who were proud of being childless.
So I’m optimistic that the future belongs to the children, the majority of whom will grow up with more Conservative values.
Good points. Not to mention items like homosexual marriage support will have a hard time persisting to the next generation - IF WE DO OUR JOBS and raise our kids well!