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The 20-somethings I know, almost all liberal, were all in for Obama because of gay marriage, “reproductive rights”—that’s free contraceptives and abortion on demand—feminism, and “social justice.” Economics didn’t even enter into the picture, except that they bemoan the cost of healthcare and contraceptives and want a single-payer UK-style system. Oh, and Romney was an out-of-touch evil rich white guy who was going to set the course of womens’ rights back fifty years, wanted homosexuals to die, hated brown people, was a KKK-style racist who wanted to re-enslave blacks, and was going to turn America into a right-wing fascist Christian theocracy (never mind that he’s Mormon).

One woman, otherwise intelligent and underemployed and barely scraping by, told me point-blank it was more important that she have her “reproductive rights” than have a job. This is what they believe with the fervor of a Pentecostal in the throes of tongue-speaking.

They don’t think we’re wrong. They think we’re an evil to be eliminated from the face of the earth. They think freedom of speech and freedom of religion should not apply to conservative Christians. They don’t think our voices should be heard in a free and open debate because we’re racist and bigoted and therefore the First Amendment doesn’t apply.

That’s what a huge proportion of the youth in this country believe. They’re basically Red Guards or Comintern without the snappy uniforms, or Weathermen/SDS without the pipe bombs. And they are willing to throw out our 230+-year Constitutional experiment in the name of “social justice.”

Was this what it was like to be a conservative God-fearing American circa 1968? I’m too young to remember.

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Even second and third generation Americans whose grandparents fled Castro and the USSR voted left. Not to mention 69% of the Jews who should know better by a host of measures, historic and contemporary. Liberty is not a genetically inherited trait: These mindless fools take it for granted, to be expected and paid for by someone out there (an old, rich white guy?) like their free cell phones.

In the past, it was a war which often corrected what we sometimes take for granted, but in today's world, the purgative aspects of war may be a long time coming.

It is the nature of youth to be liberal, (open to new ways and ideas), we were there once.

Was it Mark Twain that had a saying, about youth being liberal and then by age 30 being conservative? Sorry, I do not want to take the time to look it up.

God bless America.
Paraphrased ... "All things work together for good to those that love God.”

OMG. You are exactly right and your post laid it out so well.

These are precisely the things these no-nothing “youts” are completely consumed with. They then vote against their own interests. 50% of them have no jobs, or are severely underemployed...and their greatest concern is birth control pills and abortion rights.

Sick, sick uneducated mob.