Posted on 09/16/2013 5:42:07 AM PDT by ReformationFan
Every so often the wonks of wishful thinking give us an article about how blacks are becoming Republicans, how Hispanics are supposedly a natural GOP constituency, or, as is the subject here today, how the millennial generation is turning "conservative." Perhaps pundits asserting the last thing recall Winston Churchill's observation, "If you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart; if you're not a conservative at 40, you have no brain." And perhaps they overlook that it's possible to raise a brainless generation.
Don't think, as one might, that this will be a typical analysis sneering at the proverbial "next generation" using the perceived gold standard of one's own. After all, I realize that my generation is the tree the millennial nut fell from. Placing matters in further perspective, it's true that older and younger generations ever slam each other; it's also true that they both are always partially right. Lastly, I'll say that I don't at all consider the WWII FDR voters the "greatest generation," though it makes for a nice narrative. The greatest generation was the one that founded our nation and wondered if we could "keep" its republic, and there has been a consistent, but accelerating, degeneration ever since. In discussing our latest movement toward idiocracy, my starting point will be a Sept. 4 American Thinker article written by one Chriss Street. In making his case for millennial hope, Mr. Street points out that while 61 percent of millennials voted for Barack Obama in 2012, his approval among them has now sunk to 46 percent. But this is a deceptive statistic. For an approval rating amounts to the judging of a candidate relative to people's ideal personal standard for the presidency, whereas in an election he is judged relative to another specific candidate for the presidency.
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They still need to be actually mugged by reality. Not bullied, not jostled, but violently mugged.
When they head out on their own, once out of parents home, college, and set up their own households, then REALITY begins to hit.
Not Conservative in the terms of the religious right. Rather Libertarian Conservative. Conservative in terms of smaller govt, Libertatian in terms of social values.
Good analysis.
God won’t protect such people.
We are in an economic Depression.
The government can hide and lie about the true statistics all day long, but people in the real world know their situation.
Some people will continue to vote for Obama for Entitlements (both earned and unearned), and many young people have liberal social morals (read: un-Biblical). They also hope for student loan "forgiveness."
The fault lies with their cowardly parents who subsidize their Lazy Left life-style because they are afraid of these amoral off-spring.
Glad someone published that the greatest gen is the Founding gen and the so-called commie Brokaw coined gen wasn’t so much. Just better than ours.
Simple. Because all the time they've spent in government indoctrination centers [schools] has filled their heads full of mush.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3066036/posts
Millennials are far too decadent to ever be conservative. They have embraced the epicurean life style. Licentious sexual behavior including a tolerance for almost all perversions, widespread use of drugs, very limited child bearing, endless expectation of entitlements, neo pagan earth worship rather than traditional religion does not lead to a conservative political viewpoint or a prosperous future. There is a reason Obama was elected twice.
Wait until they get out into the “real world”, that ALL CHANGES.
Most I have been around dress and act like fags, just sayin...
True. It is a wasted effort. These are the dead brined moronic followers manufactured by the public school system. While reality may shock a few into the real world, many will stay in the land of candy, puppies, kittens and unicon farts.
I agree, and that’s actually my experience and not just in the US; even in Europe, I’ve seen the same thing.
Agree.
Smaller government is the essence of a libertarian. “Conservative” today means conserving leviathan.
The only thing that will restore the Republic at that point is revolution. And there's no guarantee we'll win.
What we today consider “conservative” will be tomorrow’s “radical.”
That mostly describes my 17-year-old daughter. She is not amoral. She has a personal relationship with Christ. She simply believes in free will and therefore doesn't condemn others. She will witness to others, but she leaves judgment to the Lord.
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