Posted on 10/14/2013 7:43:42 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
Many conservative writers become so emotionally traumatized when presented with the growing evidence that liberalism’s grasp on America’s youth is shrinking, they revert to denial and name calling. An especially virulent out-break of this malady over-whelmed Selwyn Duke upon reading my September 4th article, ‘The Millennial Generation Is Abandoning Liberalism’. Since Mr. Duke published his manifesto, “It’s the Liberalism, Stupid”, he regularly trumpets as settled science to conservatives his theory that “there has been a consistent, but accelerating, degeneration ever since” the founding fathers established the Republic. But when a conservative rejects two hundred years of American Exceptionalism, he accepts confinement in liberalism intellectual house of straw. While Selwyn Duke tells conservatives to denounce the rising independence of Millennials as “our latest movement toward idiocracy”; I celebrate Millennials’ move to the middle as a remarkably positive shift toward political sanity.
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Ummmmmmm ... what?
That was my reaction to this entire article
I’ve seen a Conservative author do that on rare occasions, but I thought the Left had the copyright on it.
Sorry, there’s one big difference between the Millennial Generation and the previous ones
Demographics
So there won’t be the usual turning more Conservatives as they age that the previous generations went through
Black and Spanish Millennials will always be and always vote Liberal because that is what their race leaders tell them to do, and to them their race trumps America, the Constitution and their individualism
Hence why we should limit immigration to people who want to invest in the system not play it.
I know a girl with a very famous American last name who was harangued for it by an openly communist high school teacher. Then her mother got into it, kicking ass and taking names.
The old commie is since very bitter. And just that much closer to a lot of free time to carry his signs in the street.
Bingo.
I think more young people are getting turned off liberalism, but they won’t be turning conservative anytime soon because it’s become synonymous with “hate”, unjustifiably for the most part. Third parties may see an upswing.
"The boomers soured on liberalism after experiencing Jimmy Carter and for the next three decades they voted as Reagan conservatives."
The author overlooks that in 1972, with the Vietnam war raging, the draft going on, and the 1960s dominating, the under 30 vote only went 46% democrat, with Nixon winning 52%.
In 1976, with Watergate, and the appointed Veep (Nixon pardoning) Ford running, with much of America considering Carter more conservative than Ford, Carter won 51% of the under 30 vote, not exactly a huge commitment to the democrat party.
So in 1972, 46% of the under 30 vote went democrat, in 1976, 51% did, and in 1980, 44% of the under 30 vote went democrat.
The under 30 vote went to the dogs after the boomers had totally aged out of it (with the exception of the 29 year old range), in 1992. The under 30 vote has totally abandoned the GOP starting in 1992.
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