And now...”The Young and the Stupid”.
The young hipsters raced to cast their votes for the young, hip, cool, black President.
Will they do the same for Hillary Clinton?
That is the 64 trillion dollar question.
“What is the source of this cleavage?”
I dont know. Playboy magazine?
“Is it a mere reaction to the disaster of the Bush years, or rising social liberalism?”
“Disaster of the Bush years”? That may be the biggest and most dishonest begged question I have seen in years. Good grief!
Demographics is destiny...
That the young tilt left is nothing new. What has really screwed up American politics is that the senior vote, which in the past was reliably conservative, is now full of left leaning baby boomers.
I don’t have evidence to back up my assertion, but I call this ‘whistling past the graveyard’.
I think a lot of them have figured out that they were deceived. They may have been programmed by the education system, but most of them will eventually figure out the lies. Maybe it won’t be too late to avoid catastrophe . . . although time is running short.
If I were a young liberal, I’d worry about my student loans and finding a job instead.
If a shift is coming it is in the opposite direction. No jobs, loss of hours, Obamacare, national debt, diminished prospects across the board.
This generation is being scrued and everyday more are recognizing just what the consequences of liberal policies are.
Yes they voted for all this and now its costing them big time. The difference is now its personal and it hurts. Just how HIP is it to be just another liberal zombie like your teacher, professor, community agitator or Joe Biden?
FWIW: Romney won the youth vote amongst all whites. So the idea that the youth vote is liberal is BS. I addition, close to 50% of these self-identified liberal youths will become conservative once they hit 30-40, with mortgages, careers, families, taxes, etc. It’s easy to be a liberal dummy when your life revolves around the next keg party.
They’ve been saying this for three generations now because they forget that people eventually grow up and start voting conservative.
“If you’re not a liberal at 20 you have no heart. But if you’re not a conservative at 30 you have no brain.” Winston Churchill
For these folks, the #1 issue in the country today is Gay Marriage. Everything else is just noise.
Would that be young, unemployed liberals?
Like they say on campus, “I’m glad I are a college student.”
Churchill stated quite well about the reasoning behind the “young” and why they are liberal.
The Pew study as I saw it covered in a different spurce cited three examples of Millenials embracing activist big government policies: gay marriage, pot legalization and I can’t remember the third.
Those first two aren’t liberal activist big government in nature (the third, tho I can’t recall it, was). The position that Millenials take on those two issues is just the opposite: that government should stay out of them.
That’s not activiet big government liberalism. It’s libertarianism.
I say that not as a defense of libertarianism, but of political mechanics and how this is MUCH more complex than the MSM is portraying in doing their victory lap.
Liberal’s own the future except for the next two elections.......oh Okay.
They can’t do it without conservative money. They are too lazy to work for their own. Most are waiting for their parents to die so they can get the inheritance, and that’s where the heftiest taxes should be levied in the future. Make them pay at least 75% of their parents’ stash for their Leftist wet dreams.
Not sure they’ve accounted for the home-schooled, highly intelligent, numerous, conservative, Rush-baby types. IMHO there is an underground group that doesn’t get counted in much.