Posted on 10/13/2016 3:17:54 PM PDT by Babsig
Just picked up my daughter from college (U of SC) for the weekend, and on the way home of a two hour drive we talked politics. She said EVERYONE she knows and all the social media outlets she uses have her age group either not voting or they are voting third party. It's big w most her age that this how they are thinking. They hate both major party candidates. The Dems are not going to get the age group this time.
>>>bought the peer pressure that Trump is somehow a bigot or big mouth or whatever. Sadly my husband and I were not successful in disabusing her of this false perception of Trump.<<<
Isn’t it odd how the personality matters more than what the candidate will do? If your daughter has most of your values she would enthusiastically vote for Cruz/Jeb/Perry/Kasich or whomever might have been the nominee if Trump wasn’t in the race. It’s all about the big issues imho. The SC is the biggest issue to me.
Consider that swiped
“...too much to expect a big en masse vote for Trump among youth. ... staying home...”
See my post #7; our experience with my daughter and the general direction that the “groupthink” at her campus is leaning with them (almost adamantly) choosing to not vote, basically supports your premise.
This will hurt Hillary Rotten - those “oversampling” of Dem polls are reflecting that this age cohort will turn out for her and they are not going to do so.
1. Discuss politics and the Constitution in a dinner setting a few evenings per month - nothing heavy or excessive, but enough to show them you feel it is important.
2. During election years, ask them how they would vote if they were old enough to do so.
3. Finally, never force your beliefs upon them. Rather, question them about their beliefs and ask them questions to support or refute their beliefs.
Yup.
Same as the cruzbots.
Yes, you did. You said "The Dems are not going to get the age group this time.".
You sited a data point that is interesting but can not necessarily be extrapolated to an entire age group across the U.S.
I homeschool my kid. So far he’s not a libtard. There’s nobody around him to indoctrinate him as a libtard.
“...not homogeneous...”
Sadly, the life experiences of the current rising generation produce far more homogeneous/uniform thought patterns than would have been the case even ten years ago.
Social media has formed them into groupthinkers to a huge degree among age peers regardless of physical location.
Just look at their instagrams - all the same themes and poses - same netflix, same youtube links shared. Social media makes it MUCH harder to think differently than the pack and real time location is not a huge game changer anymore unless the student attends one of the handful of truly Christian or conservative college.
Well pt, in my corner of the nation, Chicagoland, ALL the kids in my kids age group, are NOT voting. So, there’s that.
I’m sure other can/will weigh in.
Go take a survey and get to us, I’d be curious what you uncover.
Start now. I taught mine during Halloween - suggested that they go walk the neighborhood, even if it were cold and/or raining. And then, hand over half their goodies to the kids who were too lazy to go walk with them but wanted the candy!
I’m being silly but I truly did do the above, more than once.
There are countless ways, trust yourself, you got this!
“...Chicagoland ... ALL the kids in my kids age group...NOT voting...”
I think it is a movement for them - my daughter’s friends are NOT voting either and most of them are in college in New York State.
I disagree. Some popular movie celebrity, like Samuel L. Jackson, will just get on social media with some f-bomb dropping small children, and they’ll be fired up.
That, or someone WILL vote “for” them.
Taking a small sample within a SC college and extending it to the whole college is not accurate. Then extending that sample to all colleges is a special kind of absurd.
The one at community college has taken the most liberal classes. Her English class was all about illegal immigration. She read a book called Enrique’’s Journey. She said it was write so you would feel sympathetic to the main character.
Then she had a Muslim teacher for public speaking that was very anti-Christian. My daughter just said the teacher just misunderstands Christianity.
She’s currently taking a women’s study class. She’s not buying any of the propaganda. She’s counting down the days until it’s over and keeps reminding herself that it’s an easy A.
She’s an interesting kid. She has a brain injury that affected her speech, and she sometimes comes off as autistic. She’s not swayed by other people’s emotions. She thinks liberals are very emotional people.
Her brother and sister are very emotional. They can get swept up in the emotional realm.
Two things that help prevent liberal mental disorder in my experience :
1. Don’t force political beliefs down your kids throats. Let them experience life. When they hit their teen years, they’re going to rebel ... It simply ‘happens’ as part of the human experience. Sometimes the rebelling is tempered, other times kids go full retard. Schools used to take advantage of this “hostility” and use that to each writing/expressing oneself. These days they use it to get them pissed a out the USA, but I digress ... What will happen is that kids know you cherish your conservative beliefs ... When they’re rebelling teens, that will be used against you when they fight back. The wrong kinds of teachers will pick up on this and make things worse.
2. Don’t coddle your kids. Do your best to make their childhood as pain free as you can ... That’s the point of being a parent to a young kid ... Support. However, once they start to get older, cut off some of that support. As soon as they start to see how the real world works, they’ll have developed some fundamental skills to solve problems versus whining about them and looking for BigGov to take care of them.
I say this as a parent today and former “rebel” in my youth :-). I have three kids in my life ... Two are doing well in their early 20s (my daughter and a stepson) ... Both are Trump supporters and see the big picture. I also have a toddler (yeah, big age gap :-) ) ... Too soon to tell of course, but the kid has an uncanny knack of getting things done on his own when he wants to :-).
“...not buying any of the propaganda...”
She is an amazing young woman - hats off!
Teach them business sense. How to build/create/invent/etc. Teach them financial responsibility. But most of all, teach them that if there is something about their life that they don’t like, then they are the ones responsible for changing it.
Point out that if they want to help the less fortunate, then they should do it themselves, instead of expecting Daddy government to do it for them.
Not sure why you want to argue over an opinion...guess it makes you feel smart. My point is like another post earlier...social media is ALL over the country. Her Twitter and instagram proves this point. Shes the one that actually made this point of millennials not voting, hating both candidates and voting third party. Its a trending movement that is very much alive and growing in this age group...because they do communicate nation wide.
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