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Why millennials won't turn "conservative"
Renew America ^ | 15Sept13 | Selwyn Duke

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brainwashed; conservative; culturaldecay; duke; idiocracy; millenials; obama; selwynduke; socialism; statism
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To: DManA

How conservatives ever became associated with “small government” is a mystery. They are quite content to have big and intrusive government.


21 posted on 09/16/2013 6:18:13 AM PDT by Orangedog (An optimist is someone who tells you to 'cheer up' when things are going his way)
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To: ReformationFan

They can’t turn conservative because most have rejected Christian values and are still looking for the old “something for nothing”.


22 posted on 09/16/2013 6:20:38 AM PDT by Theodore R. (The grand pooh-bahs have spoken: "It's Jebbie's turn!")
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To: 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"

Never understood how anyone could consider Hispanics, who overwhelmingly favor big-government treatment to every ill, as a "natural GOP constituency." And the bit about blacks turning to the GOP... that's about as laughable as it gets. Blacks and Hispanics act and vote as a bloc, and are keyed in to what their leaders tell them. They think in the collective, not the individual sense.

23 posted on 09/16/2013 6:21:24 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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To: ReformationFan

40 years ago my generation was very liberal. Very articulate and very committed. We had even fewer outlets reporting republican side then now. Now look at us.


24 posted on 09/16/2013 6:22:21 AM PDT by amnestynone (Lindsey Graham is feckless, duplicitous, treacherous, double dealing backstabbing Corksucker.)
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To: Theodore R.
They can’t turn conservative because most have rejected Christian values and are still looking for the old “something for nothing”.

Exactly... with the increasing popularity of atheism and a growing anti-Christian sentiment in this country, the millennials are as far removed from what constitutes "conservative" as any group can be.

25 posted on 09/16/2013 6:24:08 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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To: Biggirl

Today, “reality” is defined as welfare, food stamps, Obamaphones and government-subsidized housing... like that mooching surfer in Cali, a taxpayer-paid lifestyle is the new “America Dream.”


26 posted on 09/16/2013 6:26:01 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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To: ReformationFan

Romney actually carried the white youth vote.

The REAL issue here is DEMOGRAPHICS.


27 posted on 09/16/2013 6:27:19 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: rstrahan
Exactly! They won't be “conservative.” And the GOP is dead. I am an old Reaganite, but I see the handwriting on the wall. Embrace Libertarianism now, or accept the one world progressive police state that looms.
28 posted on 09/16/2013 6:27:55 AM PDT by outofstyle (Down All the Days)
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To: ScottinVA

Depends.


29 posted on 09/16/2013 6:29:11 AM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: BuckeyeTexan
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.

That will change when she starts filing income tax returns...lol.

My 26 YO daughter thinks I'm a lot smarter today than when she was 18.

30 posted on 09/16/2013 6:29:16 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (The Tea Party was the earthquake, and Chick Fil A the tsunami...100's of aftershocks to come.)
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To: ReformationFan

31 posted on 09/16/2013 6:29:37 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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To: outofstyle

Look for the surging of the tea party movement, a force to be rekon.


32 posted on 09/16/2013 6:29:52 AM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: Biggirl
Depends.

Yes... with Obamacare, taxpayers will be paying for those as well.

33 posted on 09/16/2013 6:30:42 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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To: ScottinVA

And I stand on my position.


34 posted on 09/16/2013 6:30:44 AM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: ScottinVA

Your OPINION, not mine. Take care!


35 posted on 09/16/2013 6:31:15 AM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: ReformationFan; Biggirl
Why does this guy publish his commentary in "RenewAmerica" when he has concluded it is all so hopeless?

I don't happen to think it's so hopeless, and we speak of what happens someday when "Millennials" get mugged by reality. True, it won't be pretty, and the shoe still has to drop on the Gen-Xers and Gen-Yers: Why Generation Y Yuppies Are Unhappy

The writer here certainly writes like he himself has been "mugged," and his prognostications are his "reality." But the flip in public opinion and outlook that could occur on a macro scale of sea change akin to the Reagan Revolution would be for 3 basic things to happen:

1. Unleash US energy production

2. Reduce gov't spending by 1%/year across the board, and achieve balance in 7 years.

3. Lower the top corporate tax rate to 25% (or even 20%)

Outcome:

1. Restoration of US as a net energy exporter

2. Balanced budget

3. Repatriation of foreign investment and off-shore cash.

The writer's depressed outlook too soon forgets the Carter malaise and damns us all to hopelessly more of the same.

Had the 2012 election gone differently I suspect the national outlook would also be substantially brighter about what Millennials will do or say, because they would have become parties to the ensuing prosperity.

We will crawl back control of both houses of Congress in 2014 if we don't grovel in all the defeatism this author does, and then the "Reformation" can begin led by the ascendancy of Tea Party types (doesn't have to be all Libertarians either, BTW).

A lot can happen between now and 2016. Surrendering the fight at the start is no way to win.

FReegards!


36 posted on 09/16/2013 6:32:59 AM PDT by Agamemnon (Darwinism is the glue that holds liberalism together)
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To: Biggirl
Your OPINION, not mine. Take care!

I hear ya. I'm just not seeing anything that shows the tide will turn enough to make a difference.

37 posted on 09/16/2013 6:33:19 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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To: Olog-hai
Precisely. But even then, it isn't enough for a large body of Americans. See November 6, 2012.

Americans were offered a clear choice between:

  1. A personally nice softcore socialist, with a generally successful business track record and demonstrated personal generosity. He was even an Eagle Scout.

  2. A street thug and hardcore Marxist with a four year record of failure who was personally nice only to people who agreed with him or were useful to use.

This was the equivalent of Lot offering his virgin daughters to the men of Sodom to spare the holy men who were visiting his home. And the men of Sodom rejected the offer.

The only thing standing between us and a similar fate as Sodom is that the decision of the American people, while still a majority, was far from unanimous.

38 posted on 09/16/2013 6:35:01 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: ReformationFan

There is probably a lot more than one would think who are some combination of conservative and small l libertarian. It is up to the Tea Party conservatives to determine if that makes them valuable allies to fight for American liberties and freedoms with.


39 posted on 09/16/2013 6:35:48 AM PDT by freedom462
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To: Biggirl
When they head out on their own, once out of parents home, college, and set up their own households, then REALITY begins to hit.

Our daughter and her friend both left $65 K jobs in LA because there were too many queers and liberals. They were working for ABC and just couldn't stand the constant liberal agenda.

40 posted on 09/16/2013 6:37:58 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
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