If it weren’t for the youthful “ignorant” vote, Leftists wouldn’t stand a chance. They count on duping the young.
Young people tend to be liberal.
I didn’t become a conservative until my 30s. Its a generational thing.
“The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the management of their affairs; but it does not require an unqualified complaisance to every sudden breeze of passion or to every transient impulse which the people may receive from the arts of men, who flatter their prejudices to betray their interests.” ― Alexander Hamilton. . . and who better to tempt with flattery of their prejudices than the young?The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing. — Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)