Posted on 04/19/2025 10:45:13 AM PDT by CFW
Many earlier polls and articles stating the same were dismissed as one-offs or unreliable. But, it appears the rightward trend of younger voters is continuing. I credit Charlie Kirk and his organization for their work on campuses. When I first started watching his campus rallies, the majority of students attending were there in protest. Now, thousands show up on campuses to hear him speak and to give him support.
Being a Republican is becoming “the cool thing to do” among the youngest voter generation. As the article stated, this trend may reshape American politics. It must have really pained the sHill to report this.
Encouraging news. I hope it continues to hold true. I’m 41. I’m on the older end of the millennial cohort, and my generation is a lost generation. I’m fully in the MAGA camp because I have seen enough, and I make that no secret here.
I hate my generation. I can’t even identify with them. I claim myself to be a Gen-Xer, just born a couple of years or so too late.
Why follow the Democrats off a bridge to nowhere?
Could it be;
They don’t like being told they are terrible people who have no chance of redemption by being born in the most racist terrible country ever?
They don’t like a political party doing everything in their power to treat them as second class citizens while criminals and illegals are thei most important constituents?
The young men don’t want to date green haired trannies and angry feminazis?
The young women enjoy being women, want families with good men, and don’t want to have trannies in their sports leagues, showers, locker rooms, and bathrooms?
They don’t like seeing their future will never include home ownership and won’t like it when they have to rent everything?
They don’t want to eat bugs and manufactured fake meat?
Maybe....
Seeing the same thing in Canaduh. It is primarily the Laurentianist ‘boomers’ who strongly support Comrade Marx Carney and his Lieberal Party. His whole campaign has been based on fear, fear that the ‘bad orange man’ from the US, will steal their pensions, health care, and country. Of course, his Party’s 10 years of economi mismanagement arr never brought up! Critical thinking doesn’t exist amongst his supporters.
It is the younger people who realize that 10 years of Lieberal WEF/ChiCom guided and/or directed policies, have come close to destroying Canaduh, and they realize that electing Comrade Marx Carney’s Lieberals, will be the final nail in the coffin.
I am a 64 year old ‘boomer’ but have NEVER voted Lieberal (or even worse, G_d forbid, NDP) in my life. I would hope that if any friends or relatives ever find me supporting the Lieberals or ‘dippers, that they call for intervention by a mental health professional, or just shoot me! If I spout such drivel, obviously, dementia is manifesting!
Funny thing is, just few weeks ago I had someone asking if I had any realistic expectation that young people would have any interest at all in our open source audio books.
I have never thought anybody would be breaking down any doors, but I am still sure the number is far above zero.
Especially, considering, let’s be honest. Gen Z is legendary for its laziness. Millennials have been mis-identified for a long time as the lazy generation. Its almost always Gen Z.
So what does Gen Z want? Convenience. What’s the big driver of an audio book? Convenience. It matches, convenience for convenience, so it is what it is.
In the rust belt swing states just across the border from canada — the boomers are the largest reliable support base for the democrats.
**Gen Z is legendary for its laziness.**
I have a solution. Trump calls of all of them to gather $100k by the time they’re age 30. Let them beg borrow or steal it-all tax free. Grandparents can give it to them. Make it a Roth. No withdrawals except for a down payment on a house.
Once they’re on their empire building way there’s no turning back.
They couldn’t have gotten there through an easy path since they grew up in an ocean of left, so it may be hard for the left to find a way to turn them back.
Good points.
Young guys are turned off by the feminazi type. Heck maybe that’s part of the reason marriage rates are so low nowadays. Young guys see who they can marry and they recoil at the thought.
You mentioned housing, and that is troubling. I often wonder, how did we get to this point? How did housing prices get so far out of whack with middle class incomes?
And then related to that, is how can such a problem be fixed? And also related to that, do we really want government intervention in the housing market, to try to bring down prices of housing?
We had more that 75 at the party breakfast this AM. There was a TP Action table there staffed by a couple youngsters. They do great work.
Nixon won 52% of the 18 to 29 year old vote in 1972.
In 1968 the Democrats won 47% of the (21) to 29 year old vote, in 1972, they won 46% of the 18 to 29 age group.
The war on masculinity and first time homebuyers now being over 40 yrs old can do that to you.
Too many hippie dippy parents and grandparents. Maybe they read Rules For Radicals and mao’s book and said no?
True, that! 100% of the audiobooks you never create never get listened to!
We need to press this on every front we can, but I have three items that should be in the mix: (1) hamstring education indoctrination at all levels by enforcing rules against teaching DEI and critical race theory. (2) accelerate the collapse of the current higher education model by cutting off grants and following through on a 10% tax on their aggregate endowments of $1 trillion (3) play up public patriotism during the semiquincentennial, starting today with the 250th anniversary of Lexington & Concord, through 7/4/26
This thing about naming generations makes absolutely zero sense.
The ONLY one that made sense was “boomers” because there was an actual baby boom - a concentration of births - following WWII.
True, there were slight generational waves or “echoes”, as the baby boomers had their children and grandchildren, but these “boomlets” were smoothed out to the point of having no demographic significance.
This is true for several reasons. For one thing, soldiers did not all come home from the war at once and have babies. Some started their families right away and some waited a number of years. As a consequence, if they had four children two years apart, a “boomer” could be born anywhere from 1946 - 1960. Secondly, the boomers’ children were spread out even more - the date range would increase exponentially, as the boomers from 1946 could have children anywhere from say age 18 to age 35. So if a boomer born in 1946 had a kid at 18, and a 1960 boomer had a kid at age 35, that’s a range from 1964 to 1995 - 29 years!
So, if the range doubled from 15 years for boomers, to 29 years for boomers’ children, it stands to reason that the range for boomers’ grandchildren would double again.
The point being that as the ranges of so called generations widens, there is so much overlap it is pointless to call them generations - and pretend there are these demographic groups that think the same way or vote the same way.
It makes much more sense to simply group people by age, rather than try to keep track of how many generations they are from a WWII veteran.
For example, I’m a 1952 boomer, so for my grandchildren, it’s their great-grandfather who fought in WWII. But for some of my grandchildren’s friends, it’s their grandfather, or their great-great grandfather who fought in WWII, so they are the same age, but not the same generation.
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