A big part of that pattern is that they’ve Bern raised/indictrinated to believe that social issues are more important than economic ones.
Thats why it’s hard for Conservatives to find any sort of common cause with them. Unless you come to the discussion supporting gay marriage, etc they arent even willing to listen to you on anything else.
And their parents are continuing to enable it by denying them the economic slap in the face they really need. They’ll eventually come around, but by then it will be too late. But we’ll at least have the guilty pleasure of seeing them freak out when they learn, quickly and brutally, that choices have conseqences...
Along those lines, something that I have noticed among my young conservative friends which troubles me greatly, is that they are only conservative on the topics that they have decided to be conservative on.
In other words, they don’t seem to be “genetically” conservative, or “naturally” conservative, which I think is largely a symptom of social liberalism.
A true conservative’s first instinct is to have a conservative take on even topics that he has not thought about, but that isn’t the case with the younger conservatives, when trying to explain how gay marriage will destroy marriage, you have to start at square one and educate them in history and culture, and the family as foundation, etc, etc, it is exhausting and all to win a single convert.