Posted on 04/05/2023 11:58:02 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Lousy education system and constant propaganda take their toll.
“Dobbs pissed-off the 18-30 year olds like NOTHING since video of sheriffs firing watercannon on civil rights protesters or footage from the Vietnam war.”
Yes. And I expect that the Dobbs decision is going to keep being a major motivator for Democrats for the foreseeable future. It didn’t just PO women. Many millennial and Gen-Z men are POd as well. If voter turnout keeps increasing, Republicans are cooked unless they can find some new, winning issues.
“Lousy education system and constant propaganda take their toll.”
I think it’s more about shifting values. People under 40 value different things than they did when I was under 40.
And there are a lot of Republicans who don’t like paying for welfare babies, who weren’t happy with it neither. They tend to keep quiet about it, but I know several conservatives who always roll their eyes when it comes up. Their attitude is that while they may not support abortion, they also don’t want people giving birth to babies that will have to be supported with their tax dollars.
That's due to the education system and the media propaganda, in the absence of good parenting.
It’s adapt or die.
I would bet that within 25 years it will be *required* to vote.
I am just amazed that so many conservatives - and I think we’re conservatives because we RECOGNIZE REALITY as regards human nature and political systems - can’t or won’t face the fact that mail-in balloting, absentee balloting of every type, ‘ballot harvesting’, and eventually online voting are going to happen. Adapt or perish. That genie ain’t going back in the bottle, at least anywhere more than a few rural very red districts.
The only path forward is to combine some sort of voter ID (electronic) with any and all things that make it easier to vote.
Or to have issues (and the popular position on them) that are singularly important to 51 percent of all potential voters.
BTW, did you notice that Republicans never cry ‘fraud’ when they win? And Democrats start looking for it really hard when we win?
There are a lot of constitutional conservatives who don’t care in the slightest about abortion nor consider it murder in the first two trimesters. They are generally afraid to say it, though, as with RKBA folks who are democrats, the people who are fanatical about the issue will stop at *nothing* to make their way law.
I think the “Republican” brand name now is too toxic.
Conservatives, tend to be individualists, as opposed to collectivists, which most liberals tend to be.
It’s easier to get liberals to go along for the “greater good”, than it is for conservatives to do so. So we’re never really happy with anyone.
That explains videos of the long lines of Tide Pod chompers staring blankly at their phones that were gleefully displayed by the left on social media.
“BTW, did you notice that Republicans never cry ‘fraud’ when they win? And Democrats start looking for it really hard when we win?”
Of course, I noticed it. It’s the same with gerrymandering. Neither party opposes it very much when they’re the party that’s in power.
You are correct. The genie isn’t going back in the bottle. People look at how much technology has made everything faster, easier, and more convenient. That will eventually be applied to voting as well.
The real underlying issue is that the Millennials and Gen-Zers are just more liberal than the older generations. It’s always been that way to some degree. The younger generations do not see the government as the “enemy”. They view it as a tool that they can wield to make their lives better. I have 2 daughters that are Gen-Z. They’re not interested in politics so much as they’re interested in specific issues (like abortion or raising the minimum wage.) It’s funny since neither of them has a job that pays minimum wage. They see their jobs as just jobs. They like their jobs but neither has any particular loyalty to either their jobs or even their chosen fields. Another issue they seem to care about is affordable healthcare, although they don’t care as much about that as they do about abortion or the minimum wage.
Agree
In my personal opinion, good, decent people don’t go into politics. People who *want* power, want to rule, want to run things are pretty much the exact sorts who shouldn’t. Anyone running for office is, to me, as much of a thug and thief as someone I just observed smashing the window of a car and grabbing something out of it; I don’t know quite what they grabbed, is it a camera, a laptop, or a purse, but I know damned well they - and we - would be better off if a good Samaritan shot ‘em first and asked questions later.
I get utterly flabbergasted by the people who point to *any* person in office or running for it and say ‘She/he loves his country’ -BS, they found an opportunity to steal, bully, or otherwise do evil.
That’s why I want limited government. I want a government so weak, so limited, so constrained that it can be run by the very WORST human beings and not do too much damage. Because there are no Good Guys, there are merely crooks and thugs in an advance auction of stolen goods; I don’t care how much scripture they quote of flags they fondle.
“It’s ‘Gerrymandering’ when the other side does it!’
A joke literally over 200 years old.
It’s a Catch-22, the fact the person even wants the job in the first place, makes me question their sanity.
“It’s easier to get liberals to go along for the “greater good”, than it is for conservatives to do so. So we’re never really happy with anyone.”
That’s a good and accurate observation. I also think the more reactionaries do not help by trying to ban pictures of statues from school libraries. That seems too regressive, even for many conservatives.
Plus Gen Z is killing themselves but to slow to notice it.
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